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Technik · Construction

Spalla camicia (the shirt shoulder)

Genannt SPAL-la ka-MEE-cha

A sleeve set into a jacket the way a sleeve is set into a shirt: inside out, with the fullness gathered.

Spalla camicia means shirt shoulder. The sleeve is attached with the seam allowance turned into the sleeve rather than the body, and a small excess of cloth is gathered at the sleeve head, producing the soft ripples along the top of a Neapolitan shoulder. It is decorative in effect and structural in origin: it lets the shoulder stay soft.

A shoulder with the sleeve head gathered like a shirt
A shoulder with the sleeve head gathered like a shirt

What is actually happening

On most jackets the sleeve is sewn to the body and the seam allowance is pressed towards the sleeve, with a sleeve head roll or wadding supporting the top. On a spalla camicia the sleeve is attached as a shirt sleeve would be, and the sleeve is cut with a little more cloth at the head than the armhole needs. That excess has to go somewhere, and it goes into small gathers.

The ripples, grinze, are therefore a by-product, not the aim. The aim is a shoulder with no internal support that still lets the arm move.

Degrees of it

Houses do this to very different extents. Some gather so lightly that the effect is visible only in raking light; others produce pronounced pleating along the whole shoulder. Neither is more correct, but the heavier version has become a visual signal of Neapolitan tailoring and is sometimes applied to garments that are otherwise conventionally built, a shoulder treatment used as a badge. It is also worth knowing that a gathered shoulder is not automatically hand-made. The effect can be produced on a machine, and is, in factory clothing sold as Neapolitan.

Whether to want it

It is a house signature, not a quality marker, and it is worth deciding whether you want to wear one. A gathered shoulder is unmistakably Neapolitan and unmistakably informal; on a business suit in a conservative city it will be read, correctly, as a statement.

It also does not suit every shoulder. On a sloping shoulder the gathering emphasises the slope; on a square one it softens usefully. Look at the two versions on your own body before treating it as a default.

Natürlich
kein Polster · folgt dem Körper
Weich
ein leichtes Polster · eine sanfte Linie
Spalla camicia
Ärmel wie ein Hemdärmel eingehalten
Erhöht
Ärmekopf bildet einen erhöhten Grat
Erweitert
über die Schulter hinaus aufgebaut
Die Schulter, fünf Varianten 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. Diagramm erstellt für Il Sartoriale.

Auf einen Blick

Literally
“Shirt shoulder” in Italian
Visible as
Soft gathers or ripples at the sleeve head
Purpose
Attaching a sleeve to an unstructured shoulder
Associated with
Naples

Wer damit arbeitet

Häuser und Manufakturen auf dieser Site mit einer dokumentierten Verbindung zu Spalla camicia (the shirt shoulder).

A soft Neapolitan-cut jacket on a dummy 01 Schneiderstil

Neapolitan tailoring

Neapolitan jackets are as light and soft as possible, with little shoulder padding, gathered sleeves and a high armhole, and are the world's most copied style.

 An illustration of the house's recorded cut: natural shoulder, light canvas chest, soft, short, open quarters. Not a photograph of the house's own work. 02 Maßschneider

Rubinacci

Rubinacci is the oldest and best-known tailoring house in Naples, founded in 1932, where the soft Neapolitan jacket without heavy padding was first created.

 Via Chiaia, Naples, seen through an iron grille 03 Stadt

Naples

Naples is today's most influential tailoring city, known for soft, light jackets with little padding, high armholes and gathered sleeves, made for hot weather.

 A sleeve being set into an armhole by hand 04 Technik

The hand-set sleeve

The one seam that most rewards a person doing it, because it is the one seam that has to be eased.

 A roped shoulder with a raised sleeve head 05 Technik

The roped shoulder

The sleeve head lifted slightly proud of the shoulder line: the opposite decision to the Neapolitan one.

 An unlined jacket turned inside out 06 Technik

Unstructured construction

Shape from cutting and ironwork alone, with nothing inside the coat to help.
  1. Shoulder expression Glossarbegriff

    A trade term for the whole treatment of the shoulder (padding, extension, the sleeve head) considered together. A house's shoulder expression is the single most identifying thing…
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  1. A shoulder with the sleeve head gathered like a shirt: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
  2. A soft Neapolitan-cut jacket on a dummy: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
  3. An illustration of the house's recorded cut: natural shoulder, light canvas chest, soft, short, open quarters. Not a photograph of the house's own work.: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
  4. Napoli, Via Chiaia: Photograph · Palickap · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. A sleeve being set into an armhole by hand: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
  6. A roped shoulder with a raised sleeve head: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art
  7. An unlined jacket turned inside out: Original art · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale · Il Sartoriale original art

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