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Steven Hitchcock fitting: Let the tailor cut his style

  I return to the drape style with recognisable regularity. For those without a big chest – and not that bothered about big, wide shoulders – it is a very flattering shape. Many also forget how slim it...

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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – foreign bespoke

If you’re looking for a good bespoke suit in London, there aren’t many English options between £1000 and £3000 or so. Most are closer to the £1000 make and finish, but simply charge twice as much. An...

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Final Camps de Luca grey suit

 My apologies to Philip, who wrote recently that he’s been waiting for my review of this Camps de Luca suit. And to anyone else. The suit was completed a few months ago and we managed to take some...

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Edward Sexton flannel – When to wear a suit

  Apparently people are becoming more casual. There are now such things as luxury jogging bottoms.But I’ll put my money on the fact that – even as the fashion wheel turns – the suit will remain the...

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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – first fitting

    I recently had the basted fitting for my two suits from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – the tailor that runs a workshop in India but has all the suits cut by the same person London. They had offered...

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Sartoria Dalcuore bespoke, brown high-twist suit

  *London trunk show details:February 18-20info@sartoriadalcuore.com+39345840423232 Royal Crescent, London W11, UK*It’s been interesting to watch in recent years how more and more small tailors have...

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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury final suit – great value bespoke

  Back in October there was a lot of interest around my post on the bespoke service at Whitcomb & Shaftesbury. Their ‘classic bespoke’ service, which involves cutting the suit in London (by a very...

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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury visit the US

  Whitcomb & Shaftesbury, the fabulously good value tailor I have written about recently, visit the US 5-6 times a year. They will be there next in a couple of weeks – in New York for three days...

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Manning & Manning bespoke tailoring

   Earlier this year I started a bespoke summer suit with tailors Manning & Manning. They are a small operation comprising old Row cutter Bryan Manning (above) and his son, with the making...

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House styles and difficult customers: The Tailoring Symposium

Edward Sexton  Before the public part of Tailoring Symposium in June, we all gathered next to the pool at the Four Seasons to have a chat about tailoring and its future, with The Rake busily making a...

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Steven Hitchcock fitting: Let the tailor cut his style

  I return to the drape style with recognisable regularity. For those without a big chest – and not that bothered about big, wide shoulders – it is a very flattering shape. Many also forget how slim it...

View Article

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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – foreign bespoke

If you’re looking for a good bespoke suit in London, there aren’t many English options between £1000 and £3000 or so. Most are closer to the £1000 make and finish, but simply charge twice as much. An...

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Final Camps de Luca grey suit

 My apologies to Philip, who wrote recently that he’s been waiting for my review of this Camps de Luca suit. And to anyone else. The suit was completed a few months ago and we managed to take some...

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Edward Sexton flannel – When to wear a suit

  Apparently people are becoming more casual. There are now such things as luxury jogging bottoms.But I’ll put my money on the fact that – even as the fashion wheel turns – the suit will remain the...

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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – first fitting

    I recently had the basted fitting for my two suits from Whitcomb & Shaftesbury – the tailor that runs a workshop in India but has all the suits cut by the same person London. They had offered...

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Sartoria Dalcuore bespoke, brown high-twist suit

  *London trunk show details:February 18-20info@sartoriadalcuore.com+39345840423232 Royal Crescent, London W11, UK*It’s been interesting to watch in recent years how more and more small tailors have...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury final suit – great value bespoke

  Back in October there was a lot of interest around my post on the bespoke service at Whitcomb & Shaftesbury. Their ‘classic bespoke’ service, which involves cutting the suit in London (by a very...

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Whitcomb & Shaftesbury visit the US

  Whitcomb & Shaftesbury, the fabulously good value tailor I have written about recently, visit the US 5-6 times a year. They will be there next in a couple of weeks – in New York for three days...

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Manning & Manning bespoke tailoring

   Earlier this year I started a bespoke summer suit with tailors Manning & Manning. They are a small operation comprising old Row cutter Bryan Manning (above) and his son, with the making...

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The tailors I have known

  This post was originally written in 2012, following a request from a reader. It was a breakdown of all the tailors I have tried, split into different countries.  I have endeavoured to update it now,...

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