Bespoke Tailoring
Nice Trousers In case you weren’t aware of it, I also make bespoke clothing for women. This young lady is the daughter of a Dutch client of mine. She came over to visit her mum and complained of having trouble finding trousers that fit properly. In her own words: “I studied in America for a [...]
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Summarising for new readers
For the last twelve years I’ve been working as a bespoke tailor. Bespoke is an old English word which means: Made exclusively for you, the way you want it, to your sizes. It stems from the time when tailors would stock cloth on the premises. When a customer ordered a suit, he would select a [...]
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Hand-finished shirt
My first ever client, yonks ago, ordered a few shirts a while back. It just so happens he lives in the neighbourhood nowadays, and he orders things from time to time. This shirt is made from cloth by Acorn. They make some of the best shirting cloth in the world. This one is a 2-ply [...]
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Red Silk Velveteen Jacket
A lovely jacket in silk velveteen from one of my english suppliers. Photoshop, anyone? Yes, I’ve tweaked the colours a bit because this is about the most difficult cloth to shoot. I mean, it’s already difficult to take a good photo of a ‘normal’ cloth, but this is just impossible. My uncle Bert, who is [...]
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Be Smart: Buy a Bespoke Suit! And then what? Then you’ll be even smarter!
No, seriously. I am not kidding. A few days ago I read an article on a dutch news-site (http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/2175534/merkkleding-maakt-vrouwen-slimmer.html) (in case you understand dutch) which reported on a scientific study that has recently been performed in The Netherlands. In this research, a group of women was given a G-Star jacket to wear, and were then [...]
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Renamed: Another one of my teacher’s expressions.
[EDIT: I found the original title: "Quotes from the master: A good tailor has any cutter in his pocket" a little bit too heavy, so I changed it. Small edits in the text below as well.] Ok, I hope the title of this post causes some curiosity. As I’ve said before, my teacher mr Dahoe, [...]
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What is a suit? What is art?
One of the best modes of living, must be that of the artist. People commission you to do what you do best, and what you like to do most. And they in turn receive a unique work of art. As a cutter and tailor, I do treat whatever I make, as a work of art [...]
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Buttonholes on the sleeves
It is notoriously hard to define bespoke. There used to be certain elements by which you could immediately identify bespoke, and these definitions held up until some ten or fifteen years ago. Around that time, large-scale clothing producers started en masse to use particular traits of the classic bespoke art in their suits. Things that [...]
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Armholes: The dreaded scye!
Much talk goes on about something called scye, or armhole. This is an aspect of Bespoke coats that is extremely important, both for the comfort as well as for the appearance of the wearer. Please have a look at this photo: This is an old Ready-To-Wear coat of a well-known Italian producer that I’ve taken [...]
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Are you a Bespeaker?
A small selection of my personal stock, just to wet your appetite As I’ve explained elsewhere on this blog, the word bespoke originated in the 17th century. Back in those days, a tailor would have a stock of fabrics available for his customer to choose from. Nowadays this rarely happens anymore. For a tailor to [...]
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