Rubinacci wrote me back and that was exactly the case problem solved. I definitely wanted the shirt-like sahariana, I don't know what a jacket-like sahariana is.

I found a web site for that shirtmaker so problem solved. But your answers are so on-point and un-evasive I have to thank you again. Not typical iGent behavior. People's guardedness about info was the main reason I got tired of corresponding with iGents on the web like Michael Alden, it got old.

While I don't doubt one can run up a bill, the price of 500 euros for a shirt including VAT and 4500 euros for an overcoat including VAT, is just "big city prices", not as expensive as Siniscalchi (700 euros) for shirts for example, or your preferred tailor Musella Dembach, for coats (6500 euros without VAT). Not price shopping really. I have a tailor and a shirtmaker I am happy with (the latter is Buggelli in Florence, the tailor is one of the few remaining well-known workshops in the USA). I just want to try local artisans it's fun.