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| SIC Tess "Veil 170" sky blue cotton voile in 170/2 Egyptian Giza cotton. Very soft and lovely fabric. Will need to see how it performs after washing. |
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. This saying has some truism in it.
Recently I received the feedback from a friend, in private:
"Let's say, people sometimes look at your blog and do not get exactly the same thing at the shops... tell me, how does your blog actually help anyone?"
And @shirtingfantasy, being a self-proclaimed cerebral, lapsed into deep thoughts. What actually does the ShirtingFantasy blog try to achieve?
In the drawn-out thought process, I read Simon Crompton's acclaimed piece "I AM NOT A GENTLEMAN". While the literal translation of gentleman in Chinese would be "紳士", to translate it metaphorically, the term "君子" (which, incidentally, is the translated name of the Esquire Magazine) is preferred. And the values and ethics of this blog should be based on such.
REVIEW & EDITORIAL POLICY OF THE SHIRTINGFANTASY BLOG
1. Non-maleficence
- Harm to businesses: in certain situations, trade secrets may be revealed to the author of The ShirtingFantasy Blog, either inadvertently by the proprietor, deliberately by a competitor or by the author's own reasoning.
- Harm to customers: in other circumstances, products or processes under review may be grossly overpriced, counterfeit or of quality deemed totally unacceptable to the reader of this blog.
- The general principle is that information pertaining to the former category is generally not exposed, unless it simultaneously belongs to the latter category (harm to customers). The amount of exposure depends on the availability of evidence and gravity of exposure.
2. Respect for autonomy
- Businesses and their staff may refuse to be interviewed.
- Correction for factual information, e.g. opening hours, pricing etc., is generally honoured. Businesses' replies addressing issues raised by the author will be posted on the blog, unabridged, unless they contain illegal information.
- The author of The ShirtingFantasy Blog retains the right to express his personal view and subjective judgment, to the extent allowable by law.
3. Fairness
- In the author's interactions with mills, agents, shirtmakers, and tailors, personal connections with some of them were unavoidably created.
- Also, due to the perceived promotional nature of a web blog, and occasionally due to a (mis-)conception that the author may possess certain "specialist knowledge", the above-mentioned parties may offer arrangements that are not routinely available.
- It is believed that these "preferences", as long as they are offered voluntarily, can be accepted without seriously jeopardizing the neutrality of the blog. For example, access to an experimental fabric or method of construction should not be regarded as an unfair advantage or inappropriate gain.
In short: I try to say the truth that is useful to most people. There are things I don't know, for obvious reasons, and I may hazard a guess if it helps (but I will say so). There are, on the other hand, things I do know; but I may not say it if it can harm the business/ craftsman without really doing good to the reader1. There are situations that I may need to obscure the truth in order to protect certain vulnerable groups - in that situation I will not tell, but you will need to trust the overall integrity of the author as a person.
With such, I hope the reader can understand certain decisions that have been - or will be made. You may not get all the information that you want, but I do hope that you will get something useful out of this blog.
[1] Discretion is applied here: sometimes a business owner may want me to say something, and I may decline his request if I think he is basically committing commercial suicide. The three principles restrain each other, and autonomy is not without bounds...
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| SIC Tess "Royal Voile Lino" in 100/2 cotton and 88/1 Nl. The yarn thickness nomenclature is getting tricky here, but I can say this is a rather sturdy cotton-linen mix, instead of the superfine, Zephyr-like cotton-linen I usually like. |
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| SIC Tess "Cellustar" in powder blue. |
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| SIC Tess "Cellustar" in blue stripes. |
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| The "Family Photo". One of the white cuts at the top is a Thomas Mason Giza 87 poplin, which is difficult to spot from the photo. There are also two cuts of 300/2 "Excellence" and a 200/2 "Bugatti" in view, but neither is easy to spot. |
For further information, the reader is referred to SIC Tess (http://www.sictess.it/eng/prodotti.html) of
Tessitura Monti S.p.A.
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| @buzzspoke at the secretive fabric warehouse. |
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