{"product_id":"ermenegildo-zegna-vintage-dark-blue-wool-cashmere-double-breasted-pinstripe-suit","title":"Ermenegildo Zegna Vintage Dark Blue Wool \u0026 Cashmere Double Breasted Pinstripe Suit","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the Ermenegildo Zegna Vintage Dark Blue Wool and Cashmere Double Breasted Pinstripe Suit. The label reads taglio esclusivo, a designation Zegna reserved for garments produced at the highest tier of the house's tailored output, the exclusive cut signifying a standard of pattern-making and construction that separated these pieces from the mainline production and placed them in the register of the house's finest work. The suit was made in Switzerland, at the Swiss atelier through which Zegna produced some of its most considered tailoring during this period, the craftsmanship carrying the precision that Swiss manufacturing brings to any process it applies itself to within the broader Zegna tradition of Italian textile sensibility. The cloth is wool and cashmere, brushed to a subtle nap that gives the dark blue ground a softness of surface and a slight variation in how it takes the light, the brushed finish preventing the double breasted's formal weight from reading as severity. The pinstripe runs through this ground in the classic configuration, the white chalk line at an interval that the 1980s understood as the correct expression of the double breasted suit's authority at its peak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe configuration of the suit is unmistakably of its decade. The double breasted button closure sits low along the belly, the stance dropping well below where a contemporary suit would fasten, a placement that was the defining proportion of Milanese power dressing in the 1980s and that gave the suit's front its characteristic long-lapelled, wide-chested silhouette, the peak lapels sweeping to a high gorge and rolling to that low button point in a single uninterrupted arc that no subsequent decade has quite replicated or quite wanted to. Wide peak lapels at this scale and in this configuration are not a detail but a statement about what a suit should look like when it means business in the terms of that era, the Milanese understanding of the double breasted as an instrument of professional authority expressed without hesitation. Flap pockets sit at the hips. The trousers are cut straight and wide with a double pleat at the rise, the generous leg falling cleanly from the pleat to the hem in the manner of the period, the silhouette wide and unbroken in a way that contemporary flat-front tailoring has moved entirely away from and that vintage dressers have come to understand as one of the things the 1980s did correctly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErmenegildo Zegna in this period made suits for the men who ran things in Milan. The taglio esclusivo double breasted pinstripe in dark blue wool and cashmere, made in Switzerland, is a direct transmission from that moment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ermenegildo Zegna","offers":[{"title":"52 IT \/ 42 US \/ Large \/ Dark Blue \/ 90% Wool \/ 10% Cashmere","offer_id":59028525482316,"sku":"SA02792","price":578.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0653\/6187\/1105\/files\/65CAFA3D-CC5B-4B97-81DD-ADA29A9741BC.jpg?v=1790943706","url":"https:\/\/sartorialistamsterdam.com\/products\/ermenegildo-zegna-vintage-dark-blue-wool-cashmere-double-breasted-pinstripe-suit","provider":"Sartorialista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}