Luciano Barbera on one of his favorite jackets, a Russell plaid tailored by Caraceni:
The fabric, shaped in its jacket form, felt firm, stubborn, confident,
victorious. As Signor Caraceni fitted it for me, he touched it lightly
one last time on its victorious shoulder, the one whose seams he had
sewn by hand, as if to say goodbye.
May all your jacket shoulders be victorious, and all your pattern coordination as confident as Barbera’s.
–Pete