The Case for Dolce & Gabbana Tailoring, the Half Nobody Talks About

Ask most people what Dolce & Gabbana makes and they will describe a printed dress. The
house also cuts some of the most durable tailoring in Italian ready-to-wear, and it is
consistently the part of the collection that people discover second and regret not buying
first.

Luxury Handbags carries 227 jackets, 235 pairs of trousers and 51 coats. Jackets start around $1,370
and trousers around $730, which makes the tailoring the most accessible entry to the house.

What you are actually buying

The construction is Milanese rather than Sicilian: a structured shoulder, real interfacing,
and a line that holds off the body rather than draping onto it. That is what makes a Dolce
& Gabbana jacket sit correctly over both a slip dress and a pair of jeans, and it is what
you are paying for.

On fabric, the numbers are worth knowing. Across the jackets and coats, silk is the single
most common fibre, ahead of polyester, with virgin wool close behind. A tweed jacket here is
usually a real wool tweed rather than a bonded lookalike, and the silk shows up in the linings
as often as the shells.

The four pieces worth knowing

• The single-breasted tweed jacket. The house workhorse. Jewel buttons are
  common and are the one decorative concession. Works over almost everything.
• The double crepe coat. Clean, heavy, minimal. This is the piece that
  reads least like the brand and wears the most.
• The tuxedo jacket. Satin lapels, sharp shoulder. The strongest single
  argument that this house can do restraint.
• Wool gabardine and cady trousers. The cheapest way into the collection
  and the easiest to integrate into what you already own.

How it fits

Tailoring runs true to the Italian ladder, and the fit is decided at the shoulder rather
than the waist, so take your usual size. IT 42 is a UK 10. Where a garment measurement is
published we carry it to the product page.

The one thing to watch is that a structured jacket has less give than the knitwear and the
jersey, so if you are between sizes the shoulder is what should decide it, not the button
stance.

How to wear it

The tailoring is the answer to the objection most people have about this house, which is
that it is too loud to wear often. A tweed jacket over a plain knit and denim carries the
codes quietly. Save the print for when you want it to be the whole outfit.

If you already own a printed piece, the tailoring is also what makes it wearable more than
once. Black lace and plain tailoring are the two things in this wardrobe that hold everything
else together.

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