Since grad is so so near, everybody is talking about suits/jackets/coats...all sorts mehn...some dudes have even bought theirs...me? lol....na agbada i go wear mehn...Omo yoruba ni mi o....and quite a bit of this dudes do not know anything about suits or shirts for that matter.....so i asked my friend all the way from Styljunki to educate us!!!
Here...#enjoy!!!!
Live like its your last!!! Buoy!!!
Do pray for me and the boys for grace!!!!
Before we proceed to say anything regarding this subject, much respect must be paid to that niqqa above, He makes me proud to be a niqqa.That said, incase you didnt know , that’s Ozwald Boateng, he is basically synonymous with the term “Bespoke”, which we happen to be discussing.
What does “Bespoke ” mean?
The word bespoke itself is derived from the verb to bespeak, to “speak for something”, in the specialized meaning “to give order for it to be made”.The term bespoke in fashion is reserved for individually patterned and crafted men’s clothing. Simply Put ,the term refers to clothes that have been tailored to fit the customer, as against regular factory made suits that fit just about anybody.
I shall tell a simple story to illustrate this issue. When I was a kid, a friend of mine aquired a suit. She was quite pretty and very decent too,she was a three piece suit. I cant quite recall if she was single single buttoned or not. She was a Cerrutti, seemed pretty decent at the time, plus she cost him a fair amount.
A few years down the line I took another look at the suit, she seemed preety over size and stuff. My friend had not lost weight or anything like that.The truth is , she was a ready to wear suit, made to fit just about anybody.Kinda like those one size fits all things. I have since grown up, and I have seen stuff, like that Francomb I told y’all about.
A bespoke suit is traditionally cut from a pattern drafted from scratch for the customer, and so differs from ready-to-wear, which is factory made in finished condition and standardized sizes.
Bespoke versus made-to-measure
Very few people can afford a real bespoke suit, however there is a patch between ready to wear and made to measure suits. Bespoke suits are made without an existing pattern or block, made solely to fit a particular customer.Made to measure suits are made to fit everybody.In betwen this extremes, lies the regular suits that you and I run into everyday, not so bespoke and not so made to measure .They could either be ingle breasted or double breasted. The prices are in between too. This is what most tailors try to acheive by carving the sides of their suits in V’s and things, its an attempt to improve the fitting of the suit(it doesn’t really work sha).
………..In conclusion
You and I might not be able to afford a completely bespoke suit, but at least if we make a few sacrifices, we can afford tha grey pinstriped single breasted single buttoned Francomb, with the purple interior.We won’t look like Oz or like Daniel Day-Lewis, but we will look good, and if we put our feet in a pair of brown brogues, then we would have finished our work.N/B
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Lest I forget, in case you didnt know ;
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(A) This is what a single breasted Jacket looks like, (Pls ignore the third button
)(B) This is what a double breasted Jacket looks like
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