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Style de coupe · France

Parisian tailoring

The most sculptural shoulder in tailoring, over the cleanest possible chest.

Parisian bespoke builds a rounded, sculpted shoulder with a pronounced roll at the sleeve head, then cuts the chest and waist extremely close and clean beneath it. It is the most visually dramatic of the European traditions and among the most labour-intensive.

A sculpted Parisian roped shoulder
A sculpted Parisian roped shoulder

Building a shoulder

The Parisian shoulder is constructed rather than padded flat: layers built up and shaped so the line rises slightly and rolls at the sleeve head, with the fullness controlled so it reads as sculpture rather than bulk. Cifonelli is most identified with it.

Underneath, everything is pulled tight. The chest is cut close and pressed clean, the waist is high and narrow, and the skirt is cut to flare very slightly. The proportions are theatrical in a way neither English nor Italian tailoring attempts.

Building a shoulder

Layers of wadding and canvas shaped and sewn so that the shoulder line rises slightly towards its end and then rolls into the sleeve head in a continuous curve. It is neither a flat pad nor an English rope; it is a constructed three-dimensional form.

It takes hours and cannot be approximated. It is also the reason Parisian coats photograph as they do: the shoulder catches light along the roll.

Details that identify a house

  • The Cifonelli sleeve head: a rolled, sculpted junction rather than a rope or a flat set.
  • The Camps de Luca fishmouth lapel notch, cut so the notch interlocks like a mouth.
  • Hand finishing carried to an unusual degree throughout, including on parts nobody sees.

The rest of the coat

Everything below the shoulder is pulled clean: a close chest pressed smooth, a high narrow waist, a skirt cut to flare very slightly over the hip. The lapel is generally cut with a strong peak.

The combination, drama at the shoulder, discipline everywhere else, is what distinguishes the school from the English tradition it otherwise resembles technically.

Naturel
sans épaulette · épouse le corps
Souple
une légère épaulette · une ligne douce
Spalla camicia
manche froncée comme une chemise
Roped
la tête de manche forme un bourrelet
Étendu
débordant au-delà de l'épaule
L'épaule, cinq approches Right shoulder, front-on; the dashed line is the wearer’s own. Spalla camicia is the Neapolitan signature. The roped shoulder is Roman and Parisian in origin, and Cifonelli’s is the best known. The extended shoulder belongs to the sharper end of Savile Row and to the Nutters silhouette. The shoulder is where a house’s cut is most visible and hardest to fake, because it is built inside the coat. Schéma réalisé pour Il Sartoriale.

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Reproduction of a poster in "Le journal amusant" Caption: "Quels sont ces mystérieux personnages? Tout Paris se pose la question en contemplant l'affiche de dimensions paradoxales sur laquelle Sem et Roubille, les peintres habituels de la vie parisienne, ont…

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Épaule
Built and sculpted, with a pronounced roll
Poitrine
Very clean, close-cut
Ceinture
High and narrow
Ville
Paris
Pays
France

Maisons travaillant dans cette tradition

  1. An illustration of the house's recorded cut: roped shoulder, full canvas chest, sharp, strongly built shoulder, defined waist. Not a photograph of the house's own work. Camps de Luca Paris · 1959

    Camps de Luca is a Paris tailor known for fine hand sewing and a signature lapel where collar and lapel meet in a mouth-like notch.
  2. An illustration of the house's recorded cut: roped shoulder, full canvas chest, sculpted shoulder, very clean close chest, high waist. Not a photograph of the house's own work. Cifonelli Paris · 1880

    Cifonelli is a Paris tailoring firm, founded by a Roman family in the 1920s, famous for a padded, rounded shoulder and a very close-fitting chest.

Comment c'est fabriqué

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  1. A roped shoulder with a raised sleeve head The roped shoulder

    The sleeve head lifted slightly proud of the shoulder line: the opposite decision to the Neapolitan one.
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Tailleur sur mesureCifonelli PaysFrance ArtisanLorenzo and Massimo Cifonelli VilleParis Tailleur sur mesureCamps de Luca TechniqueThe roped shoulder Style de coupeSavile Row Terme de glossaireFlare VilleMadrid MarqueHermès
Crédits photographiques 5
  1. A sculpted Parisian roped shoulder: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
  2. Sem Roubille High Life Tailor habille: Photograph · Georges Goursat - Roubille · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
  3. An illustration of the house's recorded cut: roped shoulder, full canvas chest, sharp, strongly built shoulder, defined waist. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
  4. An illustration of the house's recorded cut: roped shoulder, full canvas chest, sculpted shoulder, very clean close chest, high waist. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
  5. A roped shoulder with a raised sleeve head: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art

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