I could not wait-----THIS is my next 10 suits, due March 2015!
It is based partially on the French waist-coat at right that Napoleon
wore just before Waterloo. I have combined the at right with features of a 1725 German waist-coat design, and added a stained glass obi-uchikake patch effect, indicated in the design drawing above.
One of my problems is I never, as raw materials, use the best obis, uchikakes, and kimonos that I have---they are too beautiful---so ALL of my shirts and suits are made with second best things. ONE DAY, perhaps, when death draws more obviously near, I will make something with the gorgeous stuff I have piled up all over my office-room.
Men used to look both manly, elegant, fashionable, and smart---now they look like narcissist psychopath ass-kissers, everywhere. I watched a dozen Fortune 500 CEOs, two weeks ago, traipse into the new ANDAZ Hotel in Toranamon Hills Tokyo. There are no words for the unspeakable ugliness of cloth and cut and shape and draping they evinced. Tasteless lives inside tasteless monkeys!!!!! Not to mention trying to stay awake during lunch conversations with these self promoting, self praising hormone drenched pitiful creatures. God bless their boats, incomes, stocks, "high class prostitutes", and cocaine addiction treatment programs!!
CEOs are just like "presidents of your high school class"---now I ask YOU--what sort of person was head of YOUR high school class? What has to happen to the heart and mind of someone who even runs for such a disgusting obsequious position? And the dress of these people, decades later, totally makes evident the souless goop within them.
There is no amount of money that compensates for such ugliness of fashion and soul, hired bed friends and addiction programs.
ONE KEY to, for me, SUCCESSFUL DESIGNS (note please--"successful" for me designs nauseate little tiny business"men"), is keeping the curves-on-paper and the curves-on-cloth identical. Sloppy tailoring does not do this but my supplier ladies are GREAT and they have their own aesthetic values that spot a great curve on paper and want to see/actualize it on cloth.
The design above is copyrighted and registered with the US Library of Congress (to pay legal fees) so proper attribution and use is wise.
I have a jacket series based on Lt. Warf of Star Trek the Next Generation---and elements of that have, like transposons, worped onto the design above. So the overall design is part Star Trek and part Napoleon. As is usual the "new" is derivative in both these directions--we imagine the new by unconscious recovery of distant pasts and vice versa.
NOTE the French Waist-coat above has black velvet TRIM---a sign of utter taste-less-ness and cheapness of spirit---black velvet, especially the stretch variety, is an extremely black black material of great comfort and even wearable in summer if open in front. So using it as "trim" means saving money was a more primary value than looks, comfort, or visual dominance of rooms. YUK.
Above you have the black and white schematic---WAIT TILL you see the full uchikake, obi, kimono complete 10 suits in March!!!!!
My next series is even bolder with an unusual elegant sort of dis-symmetry applied to two other 1800s waist-coat traditions blended!!!!!
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