Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales: fabric design
It became famous and, as a suit, inevitable in the most “à la page” men’s wardrobe, after being worn by Edoardo, Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII who abdicated to marry the divorcee and bourgeois Wally Simpson. It is made on Saxony, a wool fabric that takes its name from Saxony, the area of origin of the raw material.
The weave (the design that regulates the intertwining of the weft with the warp) is batavia (the obverse equals the reverse, diagonal effect and flexible fabric). And it reproduces large square windows within which checkered and pied-de-poule patterns alternate.
The Duke of Windsor popularized the fabric and design, but even earlier, since the time of Edward VII, the Prince of Wales fabric was used for the suits of the heirs to the English throne, from whose title it takes its name.
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