Despite living in the age of Google with ostensibly ubiquitous access to information, I have been often surprised by the lack of information regarding bespoke tailors – specifically, by the lack of a visual record on the cut and silhouette of the major tailoring houses that survive today in England, Italy, Austria and elsewhere. When […]
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A rather heated topic on AskAndy and StyleForum has led me to post this entry, which I also posted on the Ask Andy thread. The issue at hand: a tailor and his dissatisfied customer. What are some of the lessons learned on both sides of the sartorial aisle? If I were a customer, I would
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This is an open call for participation in the wikipedia definition of Savile Row. A wiki is “is a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content.” As it stands, one of the pillars of modern’s mens style suffers from a particularly
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As a continuation of my last post, a trip to London should include a visit to Jermyn Street shirtmakers – Hilditch & Key, Harvie & Hudson, Turnbull & Asser being the most well-known. I found this list of London shirtmakers to be fairly comprehensive. Personally, I would also try to make it over to Budd
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I recently came across Restaurant Magazine’s best restaurants in the world for 2005. Clearly, this would make the basis of a decent travel itinerary around the world. One surprising thing I noticed is the number of British restaurants that made the list. Perhaps the result of a culinary Renaissance of sorts in Merry Old England.
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Last week Chris Lydon of Public Radio International conducted an radio interview of Savile Row tailor Thomas Mahon. An MP3 file of the 52 minute interview was archived on RadioOpenSource.org and can be downloaded by following the link above. An interesting interview but Lydon could have conducted a better flowing and more engaging conversation with
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Yesterday I drove to Brooks Brothers in Beverly Hills to pick up some made-to-measure garments that needed adjustments. Naturally I got into a conversation with Victor, the salesman I work with at the store, and we started talking about bench tailors in Los Angeles. I mentioned that I only knew of two bespoke tailors in
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There are two gaps actually: generational and geographical. The first gap is generational because the tailoring tradition has remained largely with the older generation as jobs and skills have migrated to “softer” more cognitive skills. Tailors are getting older and their replacements are virtually nowhere to be found. The second issue – the importing of
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