tonik two tone

mohair by halstead plus metres needed

While searching for suiting that is breathable and wrinkle resistant that didn't weigh too little (for me, that's around 10 ounces per yard), I took a liking to mohair and mohair blends. However, the vast majority of the mohair suitings seemed to be too light for me. I soon found out about William Halstead's expertise in mohair, and asked about their Explorer bunch. They agreed to send me the book itself, together with a swatch card for another of their bunches, British Classic.
While searching for suiting that is breathable and wrinkle resistant that didn't weigh too little (for me, that's around 10 ounces per yard), I took a liking to mohair and mohair blends. However, the vast majority of the mohair suitings seemed to be too light for me. I soon found out about William Halstead's expertise in mohair, and asked about their Explorer bunch. They agreed to send me the book itself, together with a swatch card for another of their bunches, British Classic.


The Explorer has a reverse twist, which makes it wrinkle resistant and porous. The bunch is comprised of cloths from different compositions and weights, from 100% wool to a 55%/45% 3 ply wool-mohair blend. I have taken pictures of all the swatches in the Explorer bunch, some of which can be accessed here. Feel free to PM me to ask for pictures of the Explorer book and pdf scans of the British Classic swatch card. I have left the physical book and the swatch card at Iris Tailor, but I can bring them along to forum meet ups.

I'll also be happy to organise group order from William Halstead if anyone is interested. They have given me their price list for the Explorer bunch.

Dealing with William Halstead has been an absolute pleasure. Even though I offered to pay for their bunches, they sent it to me for free by UPS, and the package reached me in two days! My first order with them went very smoothly. Without asking them to do so, they rushed to have my suit length shipped to me the very same day!1 suit length is normally 3.5 meters in length, i am not sure of the meters required for a skirt, trousers i say the normal orders are for 2 meters.

For more information about William Halstead, please join their Facebook group at
 https://www.facebook...63162953752619/Alternatively, you can email them at sales@luxuryfabricsltd.co.uk

suits that are different

This suit above was bought from a charity shop and is one of the few single breasted that I like , its three button with the top button hidden
Have a ready-to-wear suit altered
Most men that buy suits don't have them altered, but for £50-£100 you can make the suit look twice as good and twice as expensive. Always put that money aside in your budget when buying ready-to-wear. Make sure the neck and shoulders fit well when you try it on; don't worry about the waist (trousers or jacket) or length of sleeves or legs. Then get all those points altered - and make sure it's done by someone good, preferably a tailor, so the waist adjustment is worked effectively into the chest and skirt. 


2. Button your jacket
There's no point having a suit that fits if you don't button it up. When you're standing, it should be buttoned. Always the waist button (top on a two-button suit, middle on a three-button), never the bottom Scott parker wears an m and s with loake shoes but its all too much of an office suit .button and only the top if it's a three-button suit with no roll: remember 'sometimes, always, never' when looking down a three-button jacket.here is another suit that looks like an office one


3. Made to measure and bespoke is worth the money
In the UK you may find that a ready-to-wear suit costs around £400, made to measure is £600 and bespoke over £1000. Each one is worth that money in terms of how it will fit, aside from questions of quality or longevity. Some body shapes get more out of MTM or bespoke, given their lack of average proportions, but I maintain that it is worth the money for anyone. Spend your money on these levels of fit rather than on bigger labels or more expensive cloths: a bigger Super 100s number just means it's thinner.


the above suit was done in a saville row tailor and cost two grand, we can only wonder why someone would want to spend that money on on one of the dullest office suit results possible.I mean everyone to their own style but if you are spending huge amounts of money why would you get something that resmbles a good off the peg m and s suit, you'd try and go for a bit of "jazz" wouldn't you?
this on the other hand is anything but office.
4. Spend money on shoes
Whenever you see someone in a nice suit, the next thing you do is look down. And their shoes nearly always disappoint. Too many sharp suits are worn with sharp (read pointy) shoes. This is largely because cheap oxfords and derbys put men off and they don't think it's worth spending hundreds of pounds this guy writes a great blog on shoes, he really knows his business but in my opinion we have another office suit here
the only thing that this guy is wearing that makes the whole look stand out is the shoe, the rest is a bit normal in my opinion.
on shoes. It is. Spend at least half the money you're spending on your suit on a good pair of shoes. A bespoke suit deserves Edward Green, not Barker but Barker Herring and Loake have really good shoes, check out the Herring website. this suit is totally wrong in that a two button front belongs to the long lapelled semi drape of the late 30's  early 40's.


5. Have some colour, somewhere
If you don't like ties, that's fine. But for god's sake find a way to wear some colour somewhere else. A pocket handkerchief, a cardigan, anything. There's nothing more depressing that seeing a group of young men 
in my opinion nothing is worse than maroon paired with b lack. maroon is to be avoided always in trousers along with bottle green, it .another silly thing here is the narrowness of the trousers which creates a kind of norman wisdom look making the shoes look like fins.


This Italian has a nice suit, he's got it right, if he needed a tie he could just slip one on, maybe a slim Prince of Wales in grey.Hes cool , simple and has flair unlike the great shoe maker above whose maroon trousers  look in my opinion fussy and strange.
Outside a pub where everyone is wearing a dark suit, a blue shirt and plain shoes. You all look the same and you all look dull. Find another way to introduce colour or, reconsider the tie. There are few enough it doesnt get worse than this, maroon with grey and black.

excuses for a man to wear coloured silk around his neck without fear of ostracism. Take advantage of it.there nowt wrong with brown but it never goes with blue, try and a white shirt and pink tie, bringss the brown out great