How do you tell if a suit is fused or canvassed?
In a canvassed jacket, most of the stitching attaching the canvas and wool is behind the lapels. If you look carefully on the reverse side of a jacket’s lapel, you can see the tiny stitches holding the layers of fabric together. A fused jacket will have no such stitching.
You can tell a fused canvas if you pinch the fabric right above the suit pocket and pull. … Armani Collezioni or Emporio Armani is a diffusion line: fabrics aren’t as good and fused–yet they still run $1000!