Cut for one person.
Made to measure suits and jackets, cut in the room they are fitted in.
Book a fittingThe canvas is the whole thing.
A layer of horsehair sits between the cloth and the lining, stitched in rather than glued. It takes the shape of your chest over about a year and then keeps it, which is why an old good jacket hangs better than a new cheap one.
- Horsehair canvas, floated not fused
- Chest piece stitched by hand
- No glue anywhere in the front
Chalk before shears.
Your measurements are drawn straight onto the cloth and cut from that, with an inch left in the seams. Nothing is cut from a block pattern and graded up, which is the difference between this and a shop alteration.
3.4 mof cloth in a two piece suit, before waste
You will come back twice.
The first fitting is a jacket held together with white tack stitches that we then pull apart in front of you. That is the point of it, and it is the only way the shoulders come out right.
Book a fitting
Made to measure
Your measurements on our pattern. Two fittings, twelve weeks, and the shape of the jacket is ours. This is what most people want, and what almost everybody who asks for bespoke actually means.
Bespoke
A pattern drawn for you from nothing, cut by one person and fitted three or four times. Twice the price and twice the wait, and worth it only if you are hard to fit or you already own the first kind.
Four cloths that cover most of it.
There are about two thousand in the books and you do not need them. These four are what we put in front of somebody who has not done this before, and one of them is usually right.
Twelve weeks and three appointments.
The waiting is not us being slow. A coat has to hang between stages so the cloth settles, and pressing it before it has is how a shoulder ends up wrong.
- Week 1
Measuring
About an hour. Twenty two measurements, a look at how you stand, and the cloth chosen last so you are not deciding it cold.
- Week 5
The baste
A jacket tacked together in white thread with one sleeve on. It looks alarming and it is meant to. We mark it on you and take it apart again.
- Week 9
The forward
Now it looks like a jacket. Sleeves on, canvas in, buttonholes not yet cut. This is where the small things get moved.
- Week 12
Collection
Pressed, finished, and tried on one last time. Anything that is still wrong gets taken back the same day.
- Year 1
A free press and any alteration
Bodies change. The seams have an inch in them for exactly this and letting it out costs nothing in the first year.
What it costs.
- Two piece suit, made to measure£1,450
- Jacket on its own£980
- Trousers on their own£420
- Waistcoat added£280
- Bespoke, a pattern cut for youFrom £3,200
- Cloth, if you want something rareAt cost
- Alterations in the first yearFree
Book a fitting.
Tell us what it is for and when you need it. If it is a wedding, tell us the date rather than the month, because twelve weeks is twelve weeks and we would rather say no than rush it.