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Menswear Verdict.

Everything we know about authenticating luxury menswear — the library behind every $15 verdict, in your hands forever.

Contents

What is inside.

Not theory. The working reference we use on every authentication — label chronologies, construction tells, fabric science, and the counterfeit patterns fakes cannot hide.

Ten universal rules

The principles that catch most fakes in under a minute — from "the label tells the age" to "when in doubt, no deal."

The 60-second photo checklist

Exactly what to photograph, in what order, and what each shot is allowed to tell you. Built for a phone camera.

Seventeen brand chapters

Label eras, construction signatures, and documented fake tells for every covered house — the chapters no public guide has written.

Fabric literacy

The fibre hierarchy from vicuña to polyester: what the content tag really says, how mills name cloth, and the yield math that exposes rare-fibre lies.

Care-tag dating

Read a garment's age from its tags — FTC rules, RN numbers, symbol eras, and the Canadian bilingual markers most guides miss.

Coverage

Seventeen houses.

Excerpt

From Chapter One.

Sample pages

The ten universal rules

  1. The label tells the age. Every house redesigns its labels on a rough decade cycle. A label that postdates the garment's claimed era is the fastest fail there is.
  2. The maker beats the fabric. "Loro Piana fabric" on another maker's garment is not a Loro Piana garment — and the market prices the difference ruthlessly.
  3. Cut tags mean walk away. A removed size or content tag is never innocent. No exceptions.
  4. Listed "original" prices are fiction. Value a garment against what it has sold for, never against what someone once claimed it cost.

…and six more, each with the photographs and counter-examples that make them stick.

The author

Adrian Vale

Over 15 years of professional consignment experience with some of the highest menswear brands on the planet.

The guide is the reference library behind every Menswear Verdict authentication — published so you can reach the verdict yourself.

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