Very practical.

Comfortable to wear, warm to look at. Not excessively hot to wear, though you may find yourself taking off the jacket in particularly warm offices.

 

Very practical.

Comfortable to wear, warm to look at. Not excessively hot to wear, though you may find yourself taking off the jacket in particularly warm offices.

How about durability; and with respect to particular cloths?

 

Flannel is never going to wear like a worsted, though a worsted flannel will give you more wear than a woolen one.

Flannel requires at least two days rest between wearings to recover its shape, compard to one for worsted.

I have several twelve ounce flannels that I wear twice a month or so in season and they are fine after at least five years of wear. So don't get it for an every other day suit, but if you're not going to beat it to death flannel is my personal favorite.

 

It's what to wear when the weather gets cold. A good quality woolen flannel will last fairly well, but Will is right, it's more delicate than a hard finished worsted cloth. Usually people get an extra pair of pants with a flannel suit. I don't , but that's because I usually keep my jacket on all day so my jackets wear faster than most wearers.

 

Using the Minnis book as a yardstick, I've had good luck with suits from the 12/13oz range, but have never tried the 11/12 or the 13/14.

Much as I like the colors and the feel of the heavier cloth, it strikes me as a real risk for a suit as it is reluctant to take a crease in the odd trousers I've had made.

On the other side, I don't know if the 11/12 would be too far down in the weight department to be useful.

Of course, as Will says, such a suit would never get constant use. So maybe that's sort of irrelevant.

 

I would note that the original poster's location is Pakistan. Depending on where in that nation he lives, a 12 ounce flannel may not be the best of choices. This week in Karachi, for instance, temperatures will be in the 80's (fahrenheit) with 80 percent humidity). Indeed, the average high in January (the coldest month of the year) averages 77F.

 

Oh, good catch. Especially if it's even slightly humid, flannel can be intolerable even in light weights.

Of course, he might be planning to wear this while flushing Osama out of his mountain hideaway. It does get colder and drier at higher altitudes.

 

Most enjoyable and practical bits of advice!

Flannel is never going to wear like a worsted, though a worsted flannel will give you more wear than a woolen one.

Flannel requires at least two days rest between wearings to recover its shape, compard to one for worsted.

I have several twelve ounce flannels that I wear twice a month or so in season and they are fine after at least five years of wear. So don't get it for an every other day suit, but if you're not going to beat it to death flannel is my personal favorite.

I intend to use it sparingly but with a different schedule: it may be 3/4 days at a go, and then rest for a month or six weeks if its winters, and 2 to 3 months if its autumn/spring/summers. Is that practical?

It's what to wear when the weather gets cold. A good quality woolen flannel will last fairly well, but Will is right, it's more delicate than a hard finished worsted cloth. Usually people get an extra pair of pants with a flannel suit. I don't , but that's because I usually keep my jacket on all day so my jackets wear faster than most wearers.

Extra pair of trousers is a good idea, as I am in the habit of hanging the jacket unless the room feels cold.

Using the Minnis book as a yardstick, I've had good luck with suits from the 12/13oz range, but have never tried the 11/12 or the 13/14.

Much as I like the colors and the feel of the heavier cloth, it strikes me as a real risk for a suit as it is reluctant to take a crease in the odd trousers I've had made.

On the other side, I don't know if the 11/12 would be too far down in the weight department to be useful.

Of course, as Will says, such a suit would never get constant use. So maybe that's sort of irrelevant.

It is indeed the Minnis flannel book on the Minnis website (https://www.hfw-huddersfield.co.uk/hardyminnis/asp/showroom2.asp?seco=M?cate=F?) that I am looking at, and I am inclined towards the "quality 0342 11/12 ozs".

Another bit of me though is rather keen on the overcheck (quality: 0323, 14/15ozs) but I have difficulty in finding this pattern in a suitable mid/lightweight flannel cloth, and suggestions as well as guidance would be most welcome

I would note that the original poster's location is Pakistan. Depending on where in that nation he lives, a 12 ounce flannel may not be the best of choices. This week in Karachi, for instance, temperatures will be in the 80's (fahrenheit) with 80 percent humidity). Indeed, the average high in January (the coldest month of the year) averages 77F.

Good point about the weather medwards, alert as always! No I do not propose to wear this in Karachi or like climes; but I travel with a fair frequency to Europe and to the US and intend to use it there. And because of the limited luggage I like to carry I may have to wear it 3 to 4 days in a row, with a break of a month or two.

Oh, good catch. Especially if it's even slightly humid, flannel can be intolerable even in light weights.

Of course, he might be planning to wear this while flushing Osama out of his mountain hideaway. It does get colder and drier at higher altitudes.

Corcordia, I assure you, I am a regular "coward", and not the adventurous kind!

Thank you, all, once again

 

If you need to wear it several days in row, get a worsted. Much as I love it, flannel needs rest between wearings.

 

Come to think of it, I do have an 11/12 oz woollen flannel-- just not Minnis, which caused me to block on it.

It travels surprisingly well, sheds wrinkles from packing overnight, etc. But I'd hate to subject it to a 16-hour day, much less four of them in a row. I use it for dinners out, concerts, etc.

 

Come to think of it, I do have an 11/12 oz woollen flannel-- just not Minnis, which caused me to block on it.

It travels surprisingly well, sheds wrinkles from packing overnight, etc. But I'd hate to subject it to a 16-hour day, much less four of them in a row. I use it for dinners out, concerts, etc.

My days tend to be a trifle shorter than 16 hours; at the most five to six hours of suit wearing time generally. Incidentally, which flannel did you use instead of Minnis?

 

H&S makes a range of 11 ounce woolens. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. All the other lighter than 13s I know of are worsted.

The H&S woolens, BTW, while lovely, are not the greatest performers.

 

My days tend to be a trifle shorter than 16 hours; at the most five to six hours of suit wearing time generally. Incidentally, which flannel did you use instead of Minnis?

Smith. A&S likes this particular one so much they keep in in inventory, and I think it's the same one from their flannel book-- which doesn't have all that many actual flannels. It is superficially similar to one from the H&S book and might be identical. But from contact with small swatches, I fancy that the H&S is a little softer and silkier.
There's a dark grey (not quite Oxford, darker than standard charcoal) and a mid-grey that is probably better for trousers than suits. If there is a navy with the right amount of mottling I would do that in a SB suit.

 

Smith. A&S likes this particular one so much they keep in in inventory, and I think it's the same one from their flannel book-- which doesn't have all that many actual flannels. It is superficially similar to one from the H&S book and might be identical. But from contact with small swatches, I fancy that the H&S is a little softer and silkier.
There's a dark grey (not quite Oxford, darker than standard charcoal) and a mid-grey that is probably better for trousers than suits. If there is a navy with the right amount of mottling I would do that in a SB suit.

Do Smith have a website with pictures?

 

That's a very 20th-century thing for them to be doing.

Anyway, everything would be grey.

 

That's a very 20th-century thing for them to be doing.

Anyway, everything would be grey.

Concordia, do Smith use a phone (an old fangled model, of course)? Would you or anyone else have a number for them?