I'm going to be really really nitpicky on details so look away if it's too much??
I received my morning dress outfit a while back but forgot to comment on it...whoops? Here I switched the grey waistcoat out for a gold one from Volks and the ribbon tie out for a bowtie to pull everything together. I did mean to take a pic of it in full but I already took Mr. Williams out of it and I'm lazy. LAZY.
The pants were kinda baggy at the hip/butt/upper thigh this time round so I went to ask them what was up and they said that it was cut loose on purpose because of the style of that era. =A=;; The pleats I can live with even though pleated trousers are so retro because it's cute in a nostalgic sort of way I guess... think Steve Rogers but the bagginess is off-putting. Like grandfather trousers. It's hard to see in my pic but the trousers are pinstriped too. I prefer to have the trousers compliment the waistcoat so I don't think it'll get a lot of use. Oh well.
I think the coat tails are a touch too short too but that could be personal taste -- I like it down to the back of the knees but this one ends just above. In the FT pics the SD13/17 versions both end above but the SID/EID versions end at the back of the knees... unfair!
As with all FT suit jackets: the sleeves are much too long but my alas my repeated suggestion for them to shorten them have gone unheeded, though they assure me they have a new cut of jacket now which should have shorter sleeves. I really really really love the perfect peek of snowy-white linen of the shirt sleeve from the jacket sleeve so having to pull one sleeve up to reveal another is annoying. Maybe a better fix would be lengthening the length of the shirt sleeve instead so it can cover the wrist joint like my Volks dress shirts do...
/rambling
And now I'm sleepy so things I adore about the set:
The pants were kinda baggy at the hip/butt/upper thigh this time round so I went to ask them what was up and they said that it was cut loose on purpose because of the style of that era. =A=;; The pleats I can live with even though pleated trousers are so retro because it's cute in a nostalgic sort of way I guess... think Steve Rogers but the bagginess is off-putting. Like grandfather trousers. It's hard to see in my pic but the trousers are pinstriped too. I prefer to have the trousers compliment the waistcoat so I don't think it'll get a lot of use. Oh well.
I think the coat tails are a touch too short too but that could be personal taste -- I like it down to the back of the knees but this one ends just above. In the FT pics the SD13/17 versions both end above but the SID/EID versions end at the back of the knees... unfair!
As with all FT suit jackets: the sleeves are much too long but my alas my repeated suggestion for them to shorten them have gone unheeded, though they assure me they have a new cut of jacket now which should have shorter sleeves. I really really really love the perfect peek of snowy-white linen of the shirt sleeve from the jacket sleeve so having to pull one sleeve up to reveal another is annoying. Maybe a better fix would be lengthening the length of the shirt sleeve instead so it can cover the wrist joint like my Volks dress shirts do...
/rambling
And now I'm sleepy so things I adore about the set:
- the slightly rounded collar (I HAVE A THING FOR MEN'S COLLARS and I can not find rounded collars for doll shirts anywhere /woe). Another thing I've been looking for forever is a proper top hat; so far all the ones I have a too small to really go over a SD's head.
- the rolled lapels are lovely, so prim and proper~
- the cut of the coat, especially the curved cutaway front. Yummy. Especially the narrow waist.