Suit fit
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It looks as if the jacket fits OK, but it’s hard to tell on the basis of two poorly-lit photos, and with your elbow raised in each one. Can you stand in better lighting and have someone else take pictures of you in that jacket? Front, back, and sides. Camera should be waist high. If you’re alone, put the camera on a table, prop it against a stack of books or a canister of oatmeal, set the timer, then get into position. (If you use an oatmeal canister, for the love of God don’t use the 1-minute oatmeal. I hate that stuff. Too mealy. Use the 5-minute oatmeal or, better yet, steel-cut oatmeal. Don’t worry, there’s quick-cook steel-cut oatmeal that’s pretty good. The key to really tasty oatmeal is to put the 5-minute oats AND milk, almond milk, or soy milk into the saucepan at the start of the cooking process and cook them together. Don’t use water. Too blah. Four parts of liquid to one part dry oatmeal. While you’re waiting for the oatmeal to start boiling, peel a banana and chop the entire thing into small chunks. Just before the boiling begins, add all of the banana chunks to the oatmeal. Or just half of the chunks if you’re cooking one small portion. Toss in a little handful of raisins for more flavor. Preferably golden raisins because I like those the most. Once the boiling starts, turn down the heat and cook for four or five more minutes. Remember to stir the oatmeal frequently from the time you turn on the heat until the time you turn off the heat. To make things even more interesting, you can cook a MIXTURE of quick-cook steel cut oats and 5-minute rolled oats. Once you’ve poured a helping of cooked oatmeal into your bowl, add a medjool date that you’ve torn into four pieces. Stir in the date chunks and any leftover banana chunks. Sprinkle on lots of cinnamon. The result: heavenly oatmeal. If you feel daring, put some chunks of baked purple sweet potato into your bowl first, then pour the oatmeal over those chunks.)
Back to the suit jacket. Again, we need better photos.
Back to the suit jacket. Again, we need better photos.
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Quaker Oats Old Fashioned, one cup to two cups water, cook 2 minutes in microwave, add dab of butter and 5 shakes salt, cook another 1:30, add teaspoonful of maple syrup, stir, let cool while doing crossword puzzle, eat.
Jacket fit looks ok, hard to tell from those photos.
Jacket fit looks ok, hard to tell from those photos.
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I use Trader Joe's quick steel cut oats, use whole milk instead of water, add chopped walnuts, dried cranberries, cocoa powder, and honey to taste. A splash of whiskey, on occasion. Not whisky - that would be blasphemous.
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Forty-five minutes ago I was in Trader Joe’s buying, among other things, quick-cook steel cut oats.
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There is a timer on your phone's camera that gives you up to 10 seconds and there are apps to download that give even more. This allows you to, as Charles Dana has mentioned, to set the phone on a solid surface, then stand in a way that is best to judge a fit, which is to say a way that you won't stand ordinarily but you really have to in order to be properly assessed.
On screen right, which is uncomplicated by the moving of your arm and camera, the suit looks quite good, both shoulder and drape, without pulling. Since one hand is in your pocket and the other holding the camera, sleeve length cannot be judged, but jacket length looks proper. Your pants are unhemmed, but there appears plenty of fabric for a cuff, if that's your choice. Pants do look good, taper wise and non-constricting. So I think you're right, you probably have yourself a very nice suit. Is it blue or black? Looks black.
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Thanks for the tip! I tried to find a timer, but I was running behind and didn’t find it. It’s a black worsted wool pinstripe. Perfect for fall and winter. Picked it up on eBay, as my budget does not allow me to buy new suits that are the quality I can get on the auction site.
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I agree that the suit fits you very well.
The trousers are a little poofy at the ankles; shortening them slightly should remedy that matter. Consider giving your tailor this magical, three-word instruction, made famous by the in-house tailors of J. Press: “Cuff, no break.” (If you want to get fancy, I guess you could go with “Cuff, shivering break.”)
Or maybe you just need to pull your pants up slightly. If doing that will give the trousers a clean, straight appearance at your ankles, consider wearing suspenders so that your trousers won’t slide down.
The trousers are a little poofy at the ankles; shortening them slightly should remedy that matter. Consider giving your tailor this magical, three-word instruction, made famous by the in-house tailors of J. Press: “Cuff, no break.” (If you want to get fancy, I guess you could go with “Cuff, shivering break.”)
Or maybe you just need to pull your pants up slightly. If doing that will give the trousers a clean, straight appearance at your ankles, consider wearing suspenders so that your trousers won’t slide down.
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... and even if it did, I think many folks miss out on the real reason for buying vintage, it's often priceless, meaning no amount of money can buy certain no longer made fabrics crafted in a no longer made style utilizing no longer methods of construction.
My last purchase of a brand new suit or jacket was in 1982 at Garfinkel's in Washington DC, which happened to be a few blocks from a Salvation Army store where at that time and in that place only the very poor shopped and since I was only a peg above that, worse even, since I had just laid out $300 on the Garfinkel suit, I entered and beheld racks of smelly crapola, but tucked in here and there were slightly dusty wonders being sold for essentially pennies and so I purchased a Chipp black and gray herringbone jacket, written on the inside pocket was the name of the original owner, Arthur Watson, Nixon's ambassador to France.
Since I couldn't go to a clerk and say, would you have this Arthur Watson jacket in a 38, I realized that in order to partake of any of this new found rumpled splendor I would have to learn how to make these one-of-a-kinds fit, even if I had to tear them apart. And so I learned. And have not bought a new suit or jacket since that day.
Personal preference, the above and not meant to suggest that others do similar, but maybe think it over.
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Er, it may be just my tiny cell phone screen, but I believe what you're looking at is an unfinished hem with the extra fabric temporarily turned up. There appears to be enough of it to make a cuff. Or not.
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I have blown up the original pic to Cinerama size and now think maybe the pants aren't unhemmed. So, with Charles, shorten them, considerably.
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