I have no wish to denigrate any particular firm or maker. All I can offer is my own experience, which is that the supposed 'bespoke' London makers I've used in reality provide a quite basic and inflexible made to measure service and have struggled in my case to get right even fundamental things like the collar.hectorm wrote:My immediate reaction was similar to David´s....until I realized that the OP was adhering to a more extreme notion of bespoke in which only one artisan is involved from the beginning to the end (leaving aside for the moment the muslin fitting and the hand-made buttonholes).davidhuh wrote:I would not subscribe to this quote.There are several bespoke shirtmakers in town. ....Sartorius_2 wrote:I live in London but alas there are no bespoke shirtmakers working here anymore.
....What counts for me is the result.
Going for that standard, and translating it into suits, none of the great firms of Savile Row would qualify as bespoke tailoring.
Interestingly, with Mary, the measurements were taken by my wife (Mary emailed me a guide to measuring) and Mary made the muslin fitting based on those measurements and a couple of photos I sent her - so we had not actually met until after she'd produced the muslin. The fit of her shirts are far better than I've had from London makers, so my conclusion is that either my wife should start up her own shirt making business, or the muslin fitting stage is a far more important step.