I wrote about Stephen almost 2 years ago and finally met him in person earlier this summer in Toronto. He kindly walked me through the well-thought out setup for his bespoke hatmaking operation. Enjoy the photos. SaveSave
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I’m pleased to say that my guidebook is finally available in paperback on Amazon.com. Alternatively, you can buy the same paperback edition on Lulu.com or as an e-book (see links to the right). While browsing Styleforum, I noticed that my guide has appeared on a Styleforum thread compiling a list of “definitive books on menswear”.
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When I chatted with Emma and Jon during Foster & Son’s NYC visit, they mentioned taking a tour of J & FJ Baker, which appears to England’s last remaining oak bark tannery. Apparently there’s been a tannery on Baker’s site in Devon since Roman times. Let’s hope it continues well into the future!
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A Los Angeles-based reader wrote to me and supplied photos of his recent commission with Enzo Caruso. The jacket is inspired by a specific example worn by Clark Gable in the 1935 film China Seas. Clark Gable’s biswing jacket Clark Gable’s biswing jacket The Caruso jacket pictured below is made out a Holland & Sherry
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I first came across Mr. Tarek in Timothy Clements’ Made in London portraiture series of London craftsmen and women. Clements also does a little write-up on each craftsman. For Tarek, he wrote: “Years later after completing his formal training at Cordwainers Technical College, he went home to see his family and celebrate. On hearing Sebastian’s
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Thanks to a tip by our friends at Foster & Son, photographer Timothy Clements has assembled portraits of London trades- and craftsmen and women including shoemakers, lastmakers, tailors, gunsmiths and violinmakers. Tailor Timothy Everest Tailor’s apprentice Annika Caswell Shoemaker Sebastian Tarek Apprentice and lastmaker Jon Spencer & Terry Moore SaveSave
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Torsten Grunwald has written a nice review of my guidebook (review in English) to Sicilian tailors on his English blog, The Journal of Style, as well as his Danish language blog (review in Danish). Coincidentally, Torsten vacationed some years ago in Sicily and came across a couple of tailors in Catania and Siracusa but decided
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It was a couple of years ago when I first heard that a couple of former Kilgour cutters had decamped for Douglas Hayward on Mount Street. But it was only on my most recent London trip that I managed to finally stop by. And it was long overdue. Hayward is located in Mayfair on Mount
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