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Ray Pleat

@raypleat

lover of wisdom | nomad | sartorialist

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Joined January 2023
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Essential tie.
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Konservativer Business-Anzug. Dunkel, hellblaues Hemd, Krawatte mit Punkten, weißes Einstecktuch, schwarze Oxfords. Nichts daran überrascht. @raypleat made me wear this tie.
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Drakes 345 Vintage Brooks Brother’s 55.
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Sundays are for Long Walks In Big Coats.
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We think in centuries.
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Ray Pleat (@raypleat) profile pictureRay Pleat@raypleatMar 18
Replying to @ANC_CA
I could wear a sport shirt, denim and derby boots every day, for the rest of my life. And my beloved M65 of course.
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Monthly rendezvous with my menswear friend. He wants you all to see his boardroom socks. Also, he says I convinced him to get a long coat. We both happened to be reading Bruce Boyer’s True Style so we had a great conversation.
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After OCBD’s, plaid sport shirts might be my favorite.
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Essential tie update. Polka dots. I like printed dots on twill not jacquard/woven dots. I’m on the scoreboard with this vintage Harrod’s. If I was buying new, Ben Silver Churchill. I’m compromising on my preferred width by a 1/4in but I’m learning to unclench.
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My beloved parka sold on eBay in less than 24. I’ve become everything I once despised - a vintage reseller. The great purge has begun.
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When Root speaks, I listen. Don’t shoot in the dark with these MTM Services. Find something you really like and start there. If you prefer classic tailoring, there really is something magical about vintage Brooks Brothers. Never had something to fit me so well off the rack.
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O.W. Root (@owroot) profile pictureO.W. Root
@owrootNov 2
Replying to @pwafork
Really good question, man. So, I have been doing custom jackets for years and so I have really figured out exactly what I like and the measurements for everything that suits me perfectly. It took some trial and error to get there, of course, but once you get it down and know your measurements it's no more complicated than a shirt. If you want to go for a custom jacket I suggest basically starting with your favorite jacket, the one that fits the best and measuring (the garment) according to that and plugging that into their system and then tweaking anything you need to tweak. That's what I did. All my measurements are downstream from tweaked 1960s Brooks Bros measurements. I hope that helps and thank you!
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The vibe I bring to the function.
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Field report: Lowballed eBay seller 20 for the most handsome pair of longwings I’ve ever seen. Medium tall chambray and chamois L.L. Bean shirts. Beautifully faded bandanna from a local vintage store.
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The most beneficial and practical use of the imagination is to make the familiar unfamiliar again.
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Insane spam text.
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Bumped into my menswear friend this morning at coffee. Star of the show here is the cashmere corduroy trousers from O’Connell’s. Our next meeting is on the 5th. Put your questions for him in the comments below.
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I want it all. The dry styleforum leftover posts, the menswear foid moodboards, the shopmy link holes. But this is the level of sartorial existentialism I relate to. I feel better about buying nearly identical plaid shirts, but one in Baird Mcnutt Irish linen for summer.
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Elite 🗽 (@roundtripgod) profile pictureElite 🗽
@roundtripgodOct 26
Fell asleep and forgot I bought a pair of Kapital wide leg Century Painter Jeans so I woke up the next day and panic copped another pair. Both showed up today, I was pretty confused. Heat tho. They sold out so whatever. I guess we flip
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Last pic made me feel something.
Herr T. (@krawattenzwang) profile pictureHerr T.@krawattenzwangOct 26
Guncheck-Sakko, olivgrüne Moleskin-Hose, hellblauer OCBD von Brooks Brothers, Madder-Krawatte, bis zur Patina geliebte braune Longwings von Allen Edmonds.
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Disappear for six months and build your wardrobe bro.
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