Sockeye

I could have called this post "Orange", but that just wouldn't do our subject justice. It's more the color of a fresh fillet of sockeye salmon. My dangerous proclivity for the pushy palette strikes again.
In the past, I've lamented the fact that my life just doesn't require nice clothes, but in reality it's a good thing. I can think of few, if any, situations requiring a jacket where a rig like this would be appropriate, so dressing this way by choice opens the door to these admittedly crazy pieces. I'd get pretty bored in a navy or grey suit all the time, you know.
3/2, darted, three button cuff, lapped seams, shallow center vent,open patch pockets all around

All rendered in a really nice proper hop sack cloth, open weave for cool breathing in warm weather, with little specks of navy threads throughout, 1/2 lined in pink shark skin satin.

I bet the previous owner was a teacher. Note the ball point pen marks in both blue and red. A nice touch, don't you think?

Hickey Freeman by way of the long gone F.R.Tripler of New York. I'm willing to bet at least some of you are surprised that such a thing comes with a bit of a pedigree. Tripler is a relic well regarded by the kind of guys, like me, who geek out on this stuff, but oddly enough the only thing I could find about them on the web was this article published originally in 1940. (Besides, of course, some abject menswear geekiness over at Ask Andy...don't get me started. What's up with that slutty ad in the sdiebar? Yikes!)

All mine for $8.99. A bit steep for me, but well worth it. It needs a good cleaning, so it might be a few weeks before this number hits the streets, but hit the streets it will.

Consider yourself warned.