The London Lounge

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Curiously, I though as the Italian works his way up the style scale his style became more and more Anglo. Preposterous idea. IMO, if there is such a scale which I doubt, the Italian have no one on top of them in style. What might happen is that they are not afraid of adopting/adapting the wonderful...

Draper's doesn't always list the country of origin on their cloths. On the other hand they sometimes say Carlo Barbera for Drapers, made in Italy. On the subject of country of origin, it's a mystery to me why Scabal NEVER lists the country of origin on their cloths. They are vertically integrated I...

I have just taken a look at Huntsman's website where they state that their suits (2 piece) start at £3995. They also state that it usually takes 85 hours to complete a suit. If we divide 3995 by 85 we get an hourly rate of £47. (I have left out material costs) In Britain £50/hr is about an average l...

There's a bit of confusion here between mills and merchants Mills, wherever their geography will weave whatever they are commissioned to weave. English mills do design and weave 'vibrantly' coloured cloths. Look at Huntsman's website for example, those house tweeds are woven on the Isle of Islay whi...

Renfield, could you please ask your tailors how they feel about fuzed fronts. If I dont have to shrink my cloth and only need two fittings AND can fuze my fronts I will save so much time. Could you please ask. Thank You. Frank... I also learned from Sir Renfield that a tailor cannot tell if a cloth...

[...]....AND to the thread.... that cloth need not be shrunk. If this is a dig at me, then you are way off the mark. I have had dozens upon dozens of suits made over several decades and only repeat what the tailors I have used tell me. In that post I gave the reasons why the tailors I have used do ...

Harrisons of Edinburgh are traditionally though of as producing the finest cashmere suitable for hand tailoring.

Minnis also sell cashmere online.

http://www.hfwltd.com/bobb.php?b=jgh&c=9&p=1

A three piece flannel will cook you alive.

A choice made from the Classic book would be a better bet. More hard wearing to boot.

Several of you posters should change your user names to Jeremiah. The reason there was a decline in hand tailoring was because there was a decline in men and women who ordered it, not because there was a shortage of tailors. A friend informs me that SR is booming at the moment and that hand tailorin...