A FINE TOOTH
Mr. James Kessler of famed haberdashery A Fine Tooth sent a kind letter this week. A Fine Tooth was established in San Francisco but has since moved to the outskirts of Las Vegas.
I'll let James do the talking from here:
"As a business, A FINE TOOTH sells select men's vintage luxury items, primarily suits and accessories, but also small men's furnishings and objets d'art. This is the core of our business now but we have always intended it as a foundation from which to develop and market original clothing inspired by the best qualities of the items we collect and revere.
FITTED TROUSERS is our first attempt at original clothing. We chose it for two reasons: First, because there is a supply problem when it comes to vintage, particularly pants. Second, there is an appalling lack of well-fitting clothing for men, particularly when it comes to pants.
With our first 200 pairs we have aimed to provide a product with the fit and many of the qualities of better brands at about half the price, and for a market we already have some traction with--fans of some of the bands we have dressed for promotions, such as OK Go, Devendra Banhart and Of Montreal. So, our market skews younger, as they say, from someone's like Thomas Mahon's of English Cut or, even, yours. ("You whippersnappers get off my lawn!"--W)
Without getting too much into personal philosophy, A FINE TOOTH is a commitment to luxury and style in the face of ruthless progress and in the absence of the possibility of retreat. As an instrument whose propagation depends on organizational harmony, it is simultaneously my Weimar, my Bauhaus, my WPA and my Machine That Kills Fascists--or I must somehow keep it from becoming any or all of these things, if you know what I mean."