Light brown herringbone jacketing from Mario Zegna. 500 grams. Buy at the store …
Faux tweed jacketing from Campore. Buy at the store …
Green-orange tweed from around 1980. Made by Ermenegildo Zegna. Buy at the store …
Blue classic coarse Harris Tweed. Buy at the store …
Grey traditional coarse Harris Tweed. 520 grams. Buy at the store …
Photos: Grunwald
More vintage fabrics have arrived. A few have been in stock before, however most of them are new in stock. The one above is the very last length of an amazing Mario Zegna summer cloth. Check a jacket of mine made up from it. Buy it at the store.
In the photos above and below block checks jacketings for spring and summer from the end of the 1970s. Made by venerable Fossati, an Italian mill founded in 1871. Buy them at the store.
A fancy jacquard weave jacketing in subdued shades. Produced by Ermenegildo Zegna in start of the 1970s. Buy it at the store.
A chic jacquard navy blue blazer jacketing from Ermenegildo Zegna, woven in the start of the 1970s. A design and feel not to be found among modern fabrics. Buy it at the store.
A great high twist summer jacketing in a classic design of tan and PoW plaids. Buy it at the store.
A red-white hopsack summer jacketing. Chic, unique. Woven by Barchietto Zanone in the 1980s. Buy it at the store.
A Donegal speckled tweed jacketing from Mario Zegna. Unique as well. From the late 1980s. Buy it at the store.
In photos above and below, Mario Zegna suitings from the 1980s, perhaps some of the best worsted flannels out there. Alle three in a dogtooth weave. Buy them at the store.
Photos: Grunwald
I didn’t think much about it. I just chose the cloth, a vintage Zegna from the 1980s. I loved it.
After the tailor had finished his job, trouble came: How should I pair the jacket with shirt, tie, and trousers? The sage green colour, and the large orange-brown-cream PoW checks are stunning, but demanding too. The jacket is picky.
The solution until now has been an off-white shirt, an orange wool challis tie, light grey flannel trousers, and brown shoes. Not sure, if I have made it yet. The other day someone suggested that I choose blue trousers with the jacket, and another one proposed light brown trousers.
I must admit I like the challenge. It is rewarding, if you succeed in taming a difficult odd jacket, or another intractable garment or accessory.
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… and, a deadstock Woodhouse reefer jacketing has landed. Read more …
Also new is this vintage summer hopsack jacketing from Fossati for a single breasted blazer or odd jacket. Read more …
Finally, the Red Tower suitings. The upper is the very last, you will find. Read more …
Source: Grunwald
As the wardrobe grows, many of us get more adventurous. Repeating navy blue and grey suits and the Harris Tweed jacket is not enough. In comes a garment like the faux tweed jacket. It is patterned like a real tweed jacket but a worsted and more citified cloth.
If you are ready for the faux tweed jacket, let me flag these vintage jacketings in prince of wales, woven around 1980 in Italy by small mill Campore. They are not only very rare but cheerfully bold. Read more at the shop.
When we are at cloth treasures from the past, let me also introduce these two pieces of quintet striped suitings, woven around 1975 by Filippo Giordano, a now defunct mill from Turin, which was founded in 1906. You can choose between brown and sage. Read more at the shop.
Source: GRUNWALD