Tweed in the City

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Good bespoke is not perfect bespoke.

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Exuberantly irrational.

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Last choice: maximum roll above the collar band. 

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Do you think a bell-shaped roll is ahead of the curve?

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Option number three. Maybe you like yours spread. 

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How about this one? The killer roll may be the most quiet one.

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Is this your ideal roll big and wide-open up top?  

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How do you roll? Let's untangle the Great Buttondown Collar Conspiracy. 

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Burn, baby, burn!

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"This is not the chambray you're looking for."

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Handsome bastards. It's the blue shirts.

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Authenticity.

Kensuke Ishizu was not American, and he certainly never attended an Ivy League university. Yet, in bringing Ivy style to Japan after World War II, he played a key role in safeguarding the classic manner of American dress for its eventual return to its birthplace. He was a very stylish and elegant man who understood that clothes have context and meaning. So, even though one may not be an Ivy fan, there is something important we should learn from his example.

Read on at tweedinthecity.com.

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More Beppe.

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Pitti for the fool. This is the real stuff, folks.

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Not quite so simple.

Vittorio Feltri shows that the Italian uniform is much more nuanced than it first seems. More and other examples at tweedinthecity.com.

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Fresco and a Leica over tea.

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Four patterns.