Your recent purchases

[mortalveneer]

Avantindietro pants and a LUC-jacket. But I suspect they are fakes. Are there fakes?

Pics! What makes you think fake???

[Pinoy]

picked up a beauty and a beast.. goodbye life.

[Faust]

awesome sweater, great purchase!

[Macro]

picked up a beauty and a beast.. goodbye life.

thats some daunting, black-hole of a life ahead of you! ;)

good luck.

[stretcheroo]

^Just think: once you've mastered those subjects, you'll be in a position to really ball with this gear. Unfortunately, you'll be 80.

[cjbreed]

just the photo made me want to take a nap

[huckleberry]

reminds me of my statute and case book pile, sigh.

[cjbreed]

"there's doctors and lawyers and business executives and they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same" - Malvina Reynolds

which is to say they look great....

[MASUGNEN]

Pictures please. Why do you suspect they are fake? Cheap Price? Bad Quality?

Definately cheap, 250 € for both! They come from a guy in Berlin and were originally bought at Harvey's. They were presented as new.

Quality so-so. Neither strike me as artisan. But of course both are basic garments. The Avantindietro pants are constructed in a similar fashion to a Lmaltieri pair of pants I own since before: flyless with a elastic waistband. The side pockets are more laborated on these new ones. The fabric is light but somewhat stern, non-corresponding to the Lmaltier feel of fabric I'm used to. Perhaps the pants have been washed. The fabric is really quite incredibly light. Avantindietro seems to have elaborated a weightlessness.

About the same goes for the LUC jacket. This is only the second LUC item I own, the first being a cashmere hat. But Luca Laurini strikes me as a true artisan and pictures seen here on knitwear are often most impressing. To me, this piece isn't. The one-piece lining could be the authenticity guarantee. But the outer fabric has this sterness and is magnetic – or what do you say when it attaches small bits of white dust? (Or is my appartment untidy?)

Love doesn't seem to have been metabolised. But you be the judge.

Photos @ http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?...oHYFDvsavm.jpg and http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?...nHdOsUvc32.jpg

[Sombre]

Zegna pants which I altered to shorts.

Oh no.

[Chinorlz]

Definately cheap, 250 € for both! They come from a guy in Berlin and were originally bought at Harvey's. They were presented as new.

Quality so-so. Neither strike me as artisan. But of course both are basic garments. The Avantindietro pants are constructed in a similar fashion to a Lmaltieri pair of pants I own since before: flyless with a elastic waistband. The side pockets are more laborated on these new ones. The fabric is light but somewhat stern, non-corresponding to the Lmaltier feel of fabric I'm used to. Perhaps the pants have been washed. The fabric is really quite incredibly light. Avantindietro seems to have elaborated a weightlessness.

About the same goes for the LUC jacket. This is only the second LUC item I own, the first being a cashmere hat. But Luca Laurini strikes me as a true artisan and pictures seen here on knitwear are often most impressing. To me, this piece isn't. The one-piece lining could be the authenticity guarantee. But the outer fabric has this sterness and is magnetic – or what do you say when it attaches small bits of white dust? (Or is my appartment untidy?)

Love doesn't seem to have been metabolised. But you be the judge.

Photos @ http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?...oHYFDvsavm.jpg and http://www.bilder-space.de/show.php?...nHdOsUvc32.jpg

Well, the avanindietros are legit... They came initially from me as the photo shows. Certainly not Harveys and I don't believe Siegfried even carried Av. The LUC jacket is likely legit. Luca has done a million variants of it in all sorts of fabrics from thick to thin. Good buy on the LUC!

[Pinoy]

^Just think: once you've mastered those subjects, you'll be in a position to really ball with this gear. Unfortunately, you'll be 80.

taking the CFAs on June 5th! too bad i still won't be balling after that haha

[Torchiere]

Good luck to you Pinoy. I'm taking the SOA exam P this summer. School's busy as it is, I ain't got time to review that stuff yet, and we're talking 400 pages of material... and for you, much more than that. I feel for you man. What level are you taking?

[Farkhanyassin]

Oh no.

Why? What's wrong with that?

[Sombre]

I just think that Zegna makes very good pants (althought not for me). It just seems wrong to change dress pants into shorts. To me it's like chopping the sleeves from a suit jacket to make yourself a nice vest. The original conveys one image, and the result of the alteration conveys a very different, even opposing, image.

I suppose practically there may be nothing wrong with what you've done, as they might even naturally look like shorts. Conceptually however, I consider the two to be in complementary distribution.