what does /fa/ think of Italian linen? worth the expense?
>>18106317>Italian linen?best flax grows in the North
>>18106326any labels you can recommend?
>>18106317"Italian x" is 9 times out of 10 overpriced garbageThat stuff is 1.5x as good (maybe) but 10x the price (guaranteed)
>>181063901.5x as good as what? Where would you go for linen shirts?
>>18105342>>18105342my jacket is italian
>>18106317Italian everything is shit and has been coasting on a reputation earned generations ago to sell you garbage.>Bubut these two brands still make decent stuffSure but 99% of Italian made clothes are junk made by chink sweatshop labor in the north of Italy.
>>18106317i have an italian linen ralph lauren purple label shirt i got at the thrift for 15 bucks and it's really nice, the way it falls is perfect. looks stupid untucked though
>>18106762Boglioli, Massimo Alba, usually what I'm dressed in
>>18107201thanks anon, they both certianly have some nice stuff
Solbiati linen is really fucking good. Same company as Loro Piana, but Solbiati isn't as "mainstream" of a name as Loro and the quality hasn't been diluted yet. Lots of companies use their linen, I have a Hugo linen sport coat from the 90s that's held up great.It's hard to explain well but the linen doesn't feel like traditional Irish linen, it's slightly heavier and tougher, has a little more texture, not as flat. If Irish linen is silk this is more like tweed. Still breathes well in the summer but it has a touch more structure to it and doesn't wrinkle quite as easily.If you're shopping on eBay, Poshmark, etc and see a linen sport coat with a Solbiati tag, grab it. They're normally pretty cheap because normies don't know the name like they do Loro, you won't see stealth wealth tiktoks name dropping it.
>>18106317yeah i've also been getting those ads on insta
>>18106762this guy again, why is it that every time shitaly is mentioned he spergs about chinese sweatshops, like anything you have wasn't made by bangladeshi children in a squalid slave shop in dhaka and then the label stitched on in england so it could say "made in england"
>>18107348It's Irish linens that are heavier and tougher than the italian stuff, not the other way around. you're just comparing delavé linen to unwashed linens. delavé linen is a lot more common on rtw clothing so you just don't see the real hardy stuff very often except in bunches for mtm/bepsoke. I've seen linen from HFW and Dugdale and Holland & Sherry that feel like iron compared to solbiati.
