Jorge Carli

Warm-weather suitings and linen blends

Jorge Carli is one of the quieter names in our cloth library. We will be straight about it: this is not a house with a museum and a founding date to recite. What it offers is cloth that keeps earning its shelf space, mostly warm-weather suitings and linen blends suited to the way Australians actually live.

Where the name surfaces in the trade, it is in made-to-measure books in the Super 100 to 130 range, sitting alongside houses like Vitale Barberis Canonico and Huddersfield. That is decent company, and the cloth holds it.

Our Bombay Blue Linen Blend Suit is cut from Jorge Carli cloth. Linen blends of this kind trade a little of pure linen's crumple for a lot of composure, which suits long Australian summers. The jacket keeps its line through a hot afternoon and the fibre still breathes.

The book rotates, so what we hold changes with the seasons. If you are after a light suit for the warm half of the year, ask to see the current Jorge Carli lengths at a fitting. Lay the cloth over a shoulder in daylight before you decide, which is how cloth should be chosen anyway.