MANUFACTURE

The fabrics

The fabrics of all our products come from the best known manufacturers of France, Italy, England, and Germany...

Suits and Jackets

The interior supplies of our jackets (shoulder pads, front)
are invisible, and the external supplies (buttons) are made
out of natural and noble materials. The lining of all our
jackets is 100% viscose and the buttons are in corozo
(except the blazer's buttons which are made out of metal).

Jackets have four inside pockets :
two wallet pockets pricked in the fabric to reinforce them
- including one lapped buttoned pocket-, a pen pocket and
a cigarette pocket.


Ties
All our ties are treated with Teflon®
Dupont de Nemours, to waterproof
fabric, and  avoid spots.  Thus,
when you spill a liquid on one of
our ties, it does not soak through.


Trousers
For your comfort, all our trousers
are lined to the knee. There is a
surplus of fabric at the back of
the trousers in order for you to
be able to enlarge it if necessary.
Pockets are overcastted to rein-
force them.  In addition to the
two usual side pockets, our
trousers have two buttoned back
pockets. The length of the trousers
is sufficient to allow a simple or with
turn-ups hem.


Shirts

We have two kinds of cuffs, the gauntlet and the French.
The gauntlet cuff fastens with two buttons for more ease.
The French fastens with cuff-links. Buttons are made out
of mother-of-pearl. All our shirts have  pleats in the back,
and the collar is stiffened.
The last button at the bottom of the shirt is placed
horizontally so that the shirt does not
open in an inelegant way.


Pull-overs
For all our sweaters, seams are fully fashioned for a better fit, i.e. the sleeves are knitted with the body part and not simply bent.


Belt

All our belts are adjustable.

1.Open the claw.
2.Adjust the belt at your convenience, cut the surplus end.
3.Close the loop.


MORE ABOUT CLOTHES

Shirt

At first, a shirt was a piece of cloth in one part, called the tunica interior (in the 3rd century). The word camisias, from Latin appeared at the end of the 8th century. The crusaders finally brought back from the East the shirt we know today, composed of three parts : the sleeves and the body.

The various shapes of collars
Modern Standard half Italian Italian
English Buttoned Broken

Suits

Like all clothing, the suit was invented by man to protect himself from cold. It became little by little an instrument of social and cultural differentiation. The French word " costume " comes from the Italian term costume, derived from Latin ( consuetudo: practice). In Italy, this term indicated the costumes of the heroes of the commedia dell' arte.


Blazers

At first, a blazer was a coloured jacket worn by sportsmen. It is a "sportswear" jacket generally navy blue, with gilded or silver plated buttons. This kind of jacket is inspired by the one related to an English vessel in the 1860's: the HMS Blazer. The history tells that the captain of the boat could not stand any more to see his crew so badly equipped, he thus ordered them to carry navy blue jackets to which were bent the buttons of the Royal Navy.


DOUBLE BREASTED JACKET

Double breasted jackets have two sides which overlap with a double line of buttons. These jackets close on the right for men, on the left for women. The Duke of Kent, brother of the Duke of Windsor, was the first to appear with a double breasted jacket.


SINGLE BREASTED JACKET

It is a traditional jacket which usually has two or three buttons on a line. Generally, one leaves the last button of the jacket open. History tells that Edouard VII, then prince of Wales, although being extremely large, wanted to follow the fashion of the time, and to wear clothing as adjusted as possible, this is why, at the end of the meals, he was often obliged to open the last button of the jacket.


Tie

At the end of the 17th century, a great number of soldiers and knights came to Paris to give their support to Louis XIII and Richelieu. Among them was a regiment of Croatian mercenaries. Their traditional costume drew the attention of the king by the scarf which they carried around the neck tied in a certain way. These scarves were made of several fabrics, simple cotton for soldiers, and of the most valuable fabrics for officers. The king fascinated by this accessory created a Royal regiment of Cravat, derived from the word Croat. At the beginning of XVIIIth the Stock, square of white muslin fastened with a pin, appears. With the French Revolution comes the fashion for coloured and very bulky ties. The development of the tie knot being very complicated and tiresome, we then see the appearance of the Regatta, ancestor of the modern tie. It is during the 1920's, with Jesse Langdorf, that the tie appears in its current form.