Oakwood bespoke tailors, Leeds

[TimMureau]

There is a new airline in my country that will fly to Leeds.
I found a tailor that is in Leeds... Does anyone have an experience with this tailor?

Is it a good quality tailor?

http://www.oakwood-tailors.co.uk/bespoke/


Thanks in advance.

[Wakefield]

TimMureau

I am sorry that I don't have any information as a customer of Oakwood. My only experience was sending them an e-mail requesting information. They never replied.

To offer some background information (or glorified gossip!) I buy some of my materials from a merchant close to Leeds. They obviously have many contacts within the trade. I was in there a few months ago and the chap I was talking to said that there were only two tailors left in Leeds who can produce a 'proper' canvas front coat. Oakwood wasn't one of them.

By conicidence, I was already having a suit made by one of the tailors he mentioned and I have now received it.

If you widen your search there are a number of tailors in the north who will produce a good quality garment but you will have to be careful about stressing styling details with some of them. Things you can take for granted in the south cannot always be taken for granted in the north.

However, on the plus side you will be very pleasantly suprised by the prices compared to places like London, especially if you chose a CMT route.

Regards

GAH

[the tailor]

Tim,

I sent you a pm yesterday.

[DFR]

Made to measure not bespoke I think.

The list of clients looks singularly obscure - presumably a few corporate client who have bought garments for their door keepers and the like.