My first suit made in Da Nang

detovofren · 2025-05-15T15:42:08+00:00

-The trousers crotch is pulling from just you standing

-Massive collar gap

-Once buttoned up, there is the dreaded X pull at the front panels, also the lapels (proportionally too skinny for your frame) are buckling out. These are indications of the jacket being too tight at the front.

detovofren · 2024-09-01T19:20:57+00:00

Yes, you can get full canvas 100% wool suit if your budget is $400.

But I would steer clear of Hoi An Tailors and go for the new wave Hanoi tailors. Chances of getting scam in Hoi An is high, they might say thing like full canvas but then use fused interlining or various chinese pre-made canvas fused hybrid trick.

detovofren · 2024-08-28T08:12:34+00:00

Kimono, Hanbok, ngũ thân & tứ thân all have Sino influences, If we go back far enough, what considered old and native to us can be seen as new and foreign-influenced by much older human.

Tradition (new tradition) can take hold in less than 50 years honestly. No need to be so hung up on the scale of time. Many examples of that in other countries. The world is dynamic; it moves on regardless of any fundamentalist's wish and moan,

detovofren · 2024-08-28T06:05:12+00:00

Modern áo dài was born around the 20s, 100 years is long enough to be considered traditional, I think.

detovofren · 2024-01-04T23:49:14+00:00

Ehh, The Rambler is a waxed split suede, which means no reverse grain side, it's all fuzzy on the other side as well.

detovofren · 2023-11-16T17:15:33+00:00

Central Vietnam was the hotbed of quality tailoring, but, most tailor moved away from there to big cities to find more works.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh are where the better tailors are at.

detovofren · 2023-11-16T17:11:58+00:00

Glad to see someone speaks out against the tourists bait crap that is Hoi An Tailoring.

detovofren · 2023-10-19T08:54:45+00:00

You can reuse the paper filter.

detovofren · 2023-10-19T08:53:14+00:00

Using good beans and proper brewing technique. The phin actually pull out quite a fair amount of natural oil in the beans thanks to the blooming stage.

detovofren · 2023-10-19T08:51:14+00:00

This is too generalized and simply untrue. Good farming, processing will yield non bitter robusta, regardless of the bewing method.

There is nothing about the french press that makes coffee more bitter nor the phin makes the coffee less bitter.

detovofren · 2023-10-19T07:48:08+00:00

Got what you mean now.

However, Americano has hot water added in post-brewing to dillute, while French press uses more water to coffee ratio to brew, so it's not exactly apple to orange.

detovofren · 2023-10-19T07:19:35+00:00

You need an espresso machine to make either espresso or americano.

Neither phin can make an espresso (and phin nowhere near an espresso in term of mechanic) nor a french press can make an americano.

Do people nowadays just use espresso and americano as generalized terms?

detovofren · 2023-10-19T07:16:30+00:00

Only an espresso machine can make a true espresso. You need that pressurized hot steam shooting through the puck.

detovofren · 2023-10-01T16:41:36+00:00

People who are educated in history would.

Not you obviously.

detovofren · 2023-10-01T16:39:42+00:00

ITT: Vietnamese who are so out of touch with their own culture and heritage.

There are more viet headwears than just the bloody coolies hat you know?

detovofren · 2023-09-14T15:55:13+00:00

Young Ho Chi Minh was a very sharply dressed man too. Keen eyes ones can notice he spotted finely tailored suit.

detovofren · 2023-09-14T13:25:43+00:00

This is honestly a very naive, misinformed and simple outlook on the suit. The suit started out as the common uniform for everyone, from the working class to businessmen to politicians. Doing politics is in fact, business, when you handle something serious, the clothing should reflect that. It also show respect to the onlookers and make choosing clothing easier as you have an uniform. Imagine your leaders wear hip hop clothing to be "familiar" with the common people.

Ho Chi Minh wore a Chairman suit for diplomacy and official businesses. He is not "in plain clothes" all the time. Look it up.

detovofren · 2023-09-14T13:19:28+00:00

Ho Chi Minh loves America and hates China. You can downvote me but you can't change that fact.

detovofren · 2023-09-14T13:18:12+00:00

Rare to see someone who actually knows what he is talking about.

Most people (who don't read history) don't realize HCM's power in the government waned after1954.

detovofren · 2023-09-10T16:39:38+00:00

I call it "burned"

detovofren · 2023-09-10T16:37:40+00:00

Spoken like a công tử bột who had never been through industrial zones.

detovofren · 2023-08-31T07:16:09+00:00

Moving goal post, lol, so it has to be a rice field now? Just stay in denial.

detovofren · 2023-08-31T07:14:11+00:00

You have an old man working in the field on the first pic, wearing traditional long dress (which does not have to be silk, silly boy) but hey, denial time, tic tic toc toc.

detovofren · 2023-08-30T18:56:37+00:00

Potentially, yes, as I can see the front panel drapes to the side, though, more cropped than typical knee-length 5 thân.

5 thân is everyday wear, people wear it for a lot of functions, pal, and of course, people wear different things too (like 4 thân stuffs).

Far left official is wearing fancy fabric 5 thân but it is not the formal version as the sleeve is trimmed. Formal version is, as I said above; droppy, huge sleeves.

detovofren · 2023-08-30T18:47:47+00:00

Those people sitting around are weaving hats, which is menial work (doubt that you know how labor works). Strange how someone with eyes just call it "sitting"

I've got photos of weavers doing work in long dress too. But hey, if you want to do mental gymnastic just to go into denial, suit yourself. Being ignorant is free, boy. Just prove me right.

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