Hi, my name is Michael Oxman, custom clothing and image consultant with Henry A. Davidsen in Center City, Philadelphia and today we're going to be discussing the best fabrics for lightweight Summer suits. By lightweight first we need to mention exactly the weight of the fabrics that we are working with. Generally speaking for Summer fabrications, this is going to mean anything between seven ounces and eight ounces per square yard. So you'll see written on swatches very often this fabric will say seven ounces, this one will say seven and a half, this one will say eight, that's the first thing that you are looking for. The first fabric that we are going to discuss is wool, actually. There is a very common misconception that wool is going to keep you too warm in the Spring and Summertime, not necessarily true. Again, so long as it is of an appropriate weight and as you can see here, this is an eight ounce wool as we see here. This is going to be a nice lightweight wool that breathes very very nicely. It's a natural fiber so you're going to have some natural breathability there and it will still hold a crease and look very very dressy. So although you may not expect it, very very lightweight wools are going to be excellent for Summer suitings. Moving on is a slightly less well known fabric that's called Mohair as you can see. Mohair is very interesting because it comes from the hair of the Angora goat in Asia and what's wonderful about it is that it is a very very high performing wool by which I mean squeeze and note how you can barely see any wrinkles if any at all. So this is a wool that's going to hold a crease very very well and it's going to look very very sharp and drapes beautifully. A lot of men actually have trouble getting used to this fabric because it has a bit of a bite to it. It's almost scratchy but it really does finish really nicely and it's a great Summer fabrication. Next, cotton, cotton is a very obvious choice for any warm weather fabrications and the ones that we carry come in a wide range of colors here as you can see and cotton is going to give a bit more of a casual look I guess you could say, more so than wool so it's going to be something that you might not want to wear for a board meeting but for a regular day at the office when it's hot outside, very very good option there and of course in your tans, your darker navy blues for example, it's going to work quite nicely. Next, linen, obviously is going to be a bit more of a casual suit fabrication and it's actually a bit on the heavier side as a matter of fact, as you can see here, these are eleven ounce fabrics which if this were wool this would be very very heavy, but because it's linen it breathes incredibly well and it's going to finish really really nicely for a more casual suit. Finally, puma is a really really wonderful lightweight wool fabric and as you can see here it's another one of those exceptionally high performing fabrications and you can see that the wrinkles fall right out of it and at about seven and a half ounces it's fantastic for the warm weather. Again my name is Michael Oxman, custom clothing and image consultant with Henry A. Davidsen here in Philadelphia and we have discussed the best fabrications for lightweight suits in the Summertime.
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