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where 'Jermyn Street' shirtmakers like Charles Tyrwhitt or TM Lewin or Pink get their shirts made? Someone commented that they used to be made in the UK but that some had gone over to China? How much is still done in the UK? Some shirtmakers still make shirts onsite don't they?

Budd and Harvie & Hudson cut on site as for the rest, you'll have to ask them...
NJS

New & Lingwood bespoke shirts are still made by Sean O'Flynn, who now has his own independent bespoke operation (on Sackvile Street) as well.

Frog in Suit

Budd cut on-site (Piccadilly Arcade), sew outside of London (but in England).

Harvie & Hudson use Russell & Hodge for bespoke shirts (allegedly).

Russell & Hodge cut and sew on-site.

Andrey
(andreybokhanko)

This discussion will only discuss ready-to-wear, which appears to be the focus of the original post. No shirtmaker on Jermyn St makes (RTW) shirts onsite nowadays. Almost all "Jermyn Street" shirts are made outside of England. Charles Tyrwhitt shirts were never made in Britain. Manufacturing has shifted around -- Peru, China, and lately Indonesia, IIRC. Pink's shirts have been made in Romania and Morocco. A few are made in Ireland (I believe this is their top of the line). People in the industry who post make allusions to every other shop on the street making abroad except for Turnbull & Asser and Emma Willis. Emma Willis' shirts are made in the Rayner & Sturges factory.

Lewin certainly doesn't make in Britain anymore. I doubt that New & Lingwood or Harvie and Hudson do either.

Coles, which used to be on Jermyn Street, now makes in Ireland.

Hilditch & Key's shirts used to be made in Glenrothes, Scotland. They laid off most of the workers there in 2002 amid talks of sourcing manufacturing elsewhere, perhaps Pakistan. Asked directly, they'll say their shirts are all still made in Glenrothes, but that's debatable since their labels no longer name a place of manufacture, and British make ought to be a selling point for them, particularly with the American market which asks questions like the OP. The shirts H&K makes for the American market still bear the "Made in Great Britain" label, so it appears they'll still "make" in Britain if asked to. However, to be "made" somewhere, all that is required is that a significant step be made in a given country -- which can simply be sewing on the buttons or the label. I am not saying that is what H&K is doing, but it's a possibility.

^ RJ

many thanks.

Anonymous wrote:Budd cut on-site (Piccadilly Arcade), sew outside of London (but in England).

Harvie & Hudson use Russell & Hodge for bespoke shirts (allegedly).

Russell & Hodge cut and sew on-site.

Andrey
(andreybokhanko)

Just wanted to confirm that Russell and Hodge, http://www.russellandhodge.com , cut and sew on-site at 3 Windmill Street, W1T 2HY. We should be grateful that many of the Jermyn Street brands use Kerry Ford (owner) - how long before the UK shirtmaker becomes extinct

Richard Harvie told me, when I once asked, that the bespoke are made on site but that the RTW are made in a factory in South London.

New & Lingwood RTW is also made by Ryaner & Sturges in Kent .

yialabis

Harvie & Hudson DO NOT make RTW shirts anywhere near the UK .!!!

yialabis