"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
Ernest Hemingway
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So what did we agree on?
Both suits are Antipodean winter weight proof..
Suit#1 Loro Piana 270 gm wool/cashmere POW plaid with warm tones & blue highlights . Jacket will have 2 button, single breast, 2 curved hip patch pockets, “barchetta” breast pocket, soft shoulder aka “spalla camicia”, twin vent, 1/2 lined in navy, canvassed, & 4 kissing functioning button hole sleeves. Pantaloons will be flat front, natural waist rise, no belt loops, side adjusters, button fly, looser leg from knee down & 5cm cuffs. All hand finished.
Suit#2 Ariston 270 gm wool flannel Silver chalk stripe on denim blue. Jacket will have 2 button, single breast, 2 flapped hip patch pockets, 1 besom ticket pocket, “barchetta” breast pocket, roped shoulder aka “con rollino”, twin vent, 1/2 lined in silver, canvassed & 4 kissing functioning button hole sleeves. Pantaloons will be flat front, natural waist rise, no belt loops, side adjusters, button fly, looser leg from knee down & 5cm cuffs. All hand finished.
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So what did we agree on? Both suits are Antipodean winter weight proof.. Suit#1 Loro Piana 270 gm wool/cashmere POW...