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Baby Pink Pencil Stripes On White: Custom made premium cotton shirt in a charming shade.

Maroon Pique Polo shirt in 100% cotton for a relaxed and laid-back style.

Navy End-on-End 120/2

Quality dress shirt in 100% premium cotton. 

Just a reminder, the order window for this year’s summer tweed run closes Monday, July 31st. Last year’s run was tremendously popular, so I’ve brought it back one more time. For those unfamiliar, this is an English woven cloth, made to look like the raw silk jacketings of yesteryear. The difference: being a silk-linen blend, rather than pure silk, it’s both cooler wearing and less shiny, making it easier to wear in modern contexts. The subtle, irregular flecks you see throughout the cloth also make this something like a summer version of Donegal tweed (hence the name). 

For readers who may not have custom tailors, or just like the ease of ready-to-wear, No Man Walks Alone is taking a length of the fabric for a special pre-order run on Sartoria Formosa sport coats. The jackets are handmade in Naples – to the same standards as the workshop’s bespoke commissions – and come in a silhouette that I think is both distinctively Italian and flattering (in contrast to the skinny suits seen elsewhere). The shoulders are soft and sloping, but just ever-so-slightly extended, and the chest is cut a bit full. You can see examples of their work in this post. The pre-order window for Formosa’s jackets also closes Monday. You can take 15% off the price with the checkout code PREORDER15. I genuinely think Formosa’s ready-to-wear line is one of the best values right now on the market, and the discount only makes it sweeter. 

Designing cloth has become one of my favorite aspects of running this blog. It’s great to see a cloth materialize, after months of planning, and then see readers send their lengths to tailors, so they can be turned into suits and sport coats. In the past, I’ve put together special edition runs of tobacco brown Fresco, navy houndstooth Fresco, and a silk-linen blend I call “summer tweed.” The last one is my favorite. 

It’s also apparently a favorite of readers. In the last year, I’ve gotten more emails about this one than any others. Those who subscribed have written in to say how much they like their fabrics (and the resulting jackets they had made). Those who missed out have asked if the cloth will ever be offered again. 

So, I’m doing one more run of this fabric – this time with a special collaboration with Sartoria Formosa (more on that below). 

For those unfamiliar, the cloth is modeled after the jacket you see above on Taka from Liverano & Liverano. Raw silks such as that one are terribly hard to find nowadays, unless you have access to vintage cloth vaults, so I decided to put together something similar. Mine is made from a silk-linen blend (40% to 60% split, respectively), which allows it to wear cooler than pure silk. More importantly, it features a flecked and slubby texture. I think of it as a spring/ summer version of your favorite fall tweed jacket. 

Classic Blue Oxford

Oxford dress shirt in 100% premium cotton.

Washed Steel Blue Twill Chino dress pant from Luxire

Grey Navy White Pencil Stripes

Quality dress striped shirt in 100% premium cotton. 

Khaki Pique

Khaki polo for a casual mood. 

Soft Drab Twill Chinos dress pant from Luxire

Wrinkle Free Pinpoint Oxford dress shirt from Luxire lends you optimum comfort moulded in fine quality oxford.

Linen-Cotton: Navy Knitted Pique pullover from Luxire is definitely the ‘it’ shirt set to take over the wardrobe.