by Jasper | Jul 17, 2013 | Bespoke Tailoring, Blog
True Englishmen will always have an affinity with Sir Winston Churchill, our greatest wartime leader and undoubtedly one of our best turned-out prime ministers. Whether in the trenches during the Great War or sitting alongside Roosevelt and Stalin, Churchill was...
by Jasper | Nov 8, 2012 | Blog, Savile Row
Suit lovers everywhere are up in (well-tailored) arms about a new proposal which could irreversibly change the face of the world’s most famous tailoring street. On St George’s day a group of immaculately dressed demonstrators gathered outside the proposed site of a...
by Jasper | Aug 9, 2012 | Blog, Trousers
The Advantages of Side Adjusters There is an old expression on Savile Row that advises that “A gentleman should never wear a belt.” Whilst this is an old one from the vaults the thinking behind it is still very much up to date. It implies that if one is having a suit...
by Jasper | Aug 8, 2012 | Bespoke Tailoring, Blog, Savile Row
In the retail world there exists a phenomenon known as ‘vanity sizing’. Essentially this means that garment sizes are deliberately mislabelled, for example a pair of trousers labelled as 34” will actually come up as 36 1/2” when measured. As a consequence most men are...
by Jasper | Jun 29, 2012 | Bespoke Tailoring, Blog
Bespoke Tailoring, as we know it today, is the accumulation of many centuries of dedication to the craft of sewing, stitching, cutting and imitating the human form in fabrics. Bespoke tailoring developed slowly but steadily throughout Europe between the 12th and 14th...
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