Linen Suits
A summer time favorite, linen is a natural fabric with a light and airy weave. This allows the fabric to breathe as air flows easily through the jacket. The natural properties of the fabric gives linen suiting a crisp, crunchy look contradicted by the roomy cut that allows the suit to flow. Favored in the humid climates, linen suits, in light earth tones or bold pastel colors is a staple among well dressed southern gentlemen.
Over the years, the linen suit has long gotten a bad wrap, mainly because of a signature property linen possesses, wrinkling. In the humidity of the south, the wrinkles are less pronounced. When worn in drier climates, it can look crisp and clean to wrinkled like a prune in a few minutes flat. When compared to a wool suit, this seems to be an inferior fabric, but here is the truth...a linen suit is supposed to be wrinkled.
Linens unique texture combined with a proper cut jacket allows the suit to wear well with wrinkles. The key is a suit jacket cut with enough room to move and allow the fabric flow but not oversized to look sloppy. If the wrinkles are just something of an obstacle you cant look past, we offer linen blends that give similar warm weather performance. Loro Piana offers a silk, linen and wool blend fabric, perfect for capturing the texture and open weave of a pure linen suit with the wrinkle resistance found in a traditional wool version.
Whether you choose pure linen or a linen blend, a crisp, flowing a linen suit will be a great addition to your summer suiting wardrobe.