







Cesare Attolini Light Brown Pure Linen Pied de Poule Summer Jacket
50 IT / 40 US / Large
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Discover the Cesare Attolini Light Brown Pure Linen Pied de Poule Summer Jacket, a warm-weather piece that applies one of tailoring's most precise patterns to one of its most honest cloths. Light brown in a pied de poule is an unusual and immediately warm reading of the houndstooth, the tone giving the pattern an earthy, organic character that the more conventional black and white or grey iterations cannot produce, the two values within the check sitting close enough in depth to give the overall cloth a softness and subtlety that reads as texture at any distance and resolves into its pattern only up close. The pure linen is exactly right for both the season and the construction: breathable and light with the natural irregularity that only the fibre produces, the cloth developing that characteristic soft, slightly lived-in quality with wear that makes linen jackets more interesting the more they are used. The spalla camicia shoulder falls from the collar with the effortless, unpadded naturalness that Attolini produces more consistently than any other house in Naples, and the handmade buttonholes, brown horn buttons, notch lapels, flap pockets and 2.5-button closure complete a jacket made entirely by hand with the unhurried conviction that the house has applied to every garment it has produced since 1930.
Pure linen pied de poule from Cesare Attolini is a combination of cloth and pattern that requires both confidence and craft to realise correctly, and this jacket demonstrates both without apparent effort. It is, in the most straightforward sense, a great summer jacket made by the right house in the right cloth.
Composition: 100% Linen
Color: Light Brown
Pattern: Pied de Poule
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• Customs duties and import fees outside the EU are the customer’s responsibility
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• Any use beyond indoor fitting may result in a diminished refund
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Full Canvas Construction
A sartorial jacket - or coat - needs an interlining that will help give it shape and mold it. Canvas gives the item a tailored and crafted look. In short, it breathes life into it. Purely technical, canvas is made from either horsehair, wool, mohair or camel hair. It could also be a mix of them all, with varying thickness and weight. The canvas is stitched to the jacket, often by hand, thus making the canvas pieces 'floating' in the middle of the inner and outer cloth. This gives the jacket added flexibility. The canvas runs from the upper parts, all the way down to the end of the jacket. After you wear your canvassed suit for a while, it will begin to take your shape and look incredibly natural.

La Spalla Camicia
Spalla Camicia roughly translates to 'shirt sleeve' in Italian and is a shoulder style created and popularized by Neapolitan tailors. The name 'shirt sleeve' was so coined due to the characteristic shirring found at the sleeve's head where the fullness of the larger sleeve collapses. Rather than having the head of the sleeve turned back and stitched inside, the head is lapped under and stitched along the top.

Handmade Buttonhole
Handmade buttonholes are made using a chain of knotted loops called purl stitches that make them strong and visually distinctive. It takes about five seconds to sew a regular buttonhole with a machine – a single handmade buttonhole takes about 10 minutes to sew.

2.5 Button Closure
The ‘tre bottoni stirato a due’, also known as the three rolling on two lapel style, is perhaps the most infamous characteristic of the Neapolitan style jacket. The top button and buttonhole are ornamental, so are left unbuttoned. As the lapel rolls down it elegantly folds over the top button and stops just 4 cm above the second button creating the distinct roll of the lapel the style is known for. As it is intended to remain unbuttoned, the top buttonhole is actually made inside out so the beautiful side will still be visible.

Barchetta Chest Pocket
The barchetta pocket is often thought to be a tailoring detail exclusively from Italy. The word “barchetta” is Italian for “little boat.” It describes how the pocket floats on the chest, gently angled upwards, like the bow of a sailboat.

Neapolitan Darts
Neapolitan master tailors add two darts - think of them as pinched seams - to ensure the jacket’s body achieves a slim silhouette. The process, called mezzo punto riprese, is done entirely by hand.

Kissing Buttons and Handmade Buttonholes
Also known as stacked buttons or waterfall buttons, kissing buttons are associated with Italian tailoring as Italian tailors make their jacket sleeve buttons in the kissing style. In this style, buttons touch each other and overlap one another. Handmade buttonholes; Even this step, apparently the simplest, is treated with an abundance of detail. Attaching the buttons is a job that requires patience and must be completed to perfection.

Patch Pocket
Patch pockets, with their rugged functionality, were unsurprisingly adopted by the military for both shirts and jackets. The lower patch pockets on a Neapolitan jacket are modeled after the tasca a pignata style, and when done in its purest form, are easily recognizable with a rounded-bottom and a unique shape


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50 IT / 40 US / Large

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