Christmas Day Lunch

Christmas Day is Heavy Lunch Day at the south-bavarian Suitorial headquarters, which traditionally means roasted turkey with Serviettenknödel (that is "napkin dumplings" in English, a regional variation on the sphere-shaped dumpling made of bread, milk, egg and parsley) along with some other, not bit less intense courses. Now that the meal is slowly starting to settle, here is what some of it looked like.

Casa de Torres - The old Perfecto

One of my favourite (few) non-Cuban cigars, in that case from Nicaragua:
The Perfecto from the old Especial series from Casa de Torres (slightly larger and darker wrapper than their standard perfecto).

Opera

Normally I tend to wear propper evening wear when going to the opera (obviously because it pleases me as jeans and a shirt with "a collar" do the same job these days).
However sometimes, in case of emergency, and that was that my my dinner suits were floating around wherever I was not, a formal lounge suit did this.
Btw. a few weeks ago I had dinner with the company that performed a baroque opera and some of them even noted that I changed places between first and second act (came in late and was seated elsewhere than reserved).
They were quite happy about someone giving formal (and obvious) tribute to the performance, but we agreed that somehow things are wrong in today's cultural life when the soloist note single persons within the audience (be it for not wearing hoodies or being at the theatre at all)...

Berlin - Hotel de Rome / Parioli

Lunch at the Parioli Restaurant of the Hotel de Rome in Berlin.
Note: No aperitif, no lunch.

Anti-Napoli and Mystery Bespoke Knitwear ™

“C’est une révolte?” – “Non, Sire, c’est une révolution!”
That is French for "Do there exist other desirable shoulder types than Spalla Camicia?" - "Yes" (loose translation).
Of course you noted that the concave Spalla Insellata is actually more true than our shirred-shoulder-favourite, at least as far as Napoli is concerned, but we'll talk about that later.
The jumper is made from extremely heavy silk/cotton thread and entirely hand knitted in a loose weave with some classic rhombic texture on it.

Merry Christmas

Napoli - A random restaurant

But a good one!
Sometimes it's best to rely on the advice of friends.

 

Napoli - Umbrellas like no umbrellas

Some more specialties from umbrellla maker Mario Talarico.
The first two have handles from pure horn, but in very different "formats" and finishes, with the first being something that should better not be taken to the airport as deer antlers are probably considered as dangerous arms.
The second has a handle crafted from smaller piece sof horn that are hand carved, polished and set together to one form a single, planar handle.
As you may note, the handle does not perfectly match the umbrella's stick in circumference, so they are going to remove it from the unfinishd umbrella and recarve and repolish...
The last one shows one of the fun hand painted freestyle pieces by Mario Talarico Junior, the masters nephew.

Gennaro

Some shots of my dear friend Gennaro of Chiaia Napoli at the Berlin Trunkshow showing some interesting views of his modern and somewhat flamboyant interpretation of classic style, incl. some cool details.
The 2X1 double breasted suit is made from an English flannel by Hield, the turquoise/citrine bracelet is a bespoke piece as well.

Napoli - Another...Panorama

A somewhat disturbing but at the same time fascinating view on a large, abandoned industrial compound near the seaside.
Note: Never try to produce anything else in Naples than suits, pizza or parties.