Latest piece on How to Spend It
We have decided to give greater structure to my How to Spend It column, making it a practical analysis of how to buy various items in a men’s wardrobe. The first one, on suits, is now live. Read it here.
Latest piece on How to Spend It
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Just started following your blog, you have some really interesting and informative articles on here. I'm trying to start up my own British men's lifestyle blog, needless to say there's lots of inspiration here! Thanks, C...
Davide Taub: Style and the tailor
Normal.dotm 0 0 1 789 4502 Euromoney PLC 37 9 5528 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false I love Davide because he opens up a whole world of possibilities in tailoring for me. He regularly works with bespoke raw denim; bespoke leather jackets...
Davide Taub: Style and the tailor
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The man is professional! Nice Article, we all Enjoy Very much! i love he's simple and classic haircut :)...
Davide Taub joins Gieves & Hawkes
Davide Taub left Maurice Sedwell a few weeks ago to become senior cutter at Gieves & Hawkes. He replaces Kathryn Sargent, who left at the beginning of the year to set up on her own with a board over at Meyer & Mortimer. I know David...
Davide Taub joins Gieves & Hawkes
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I don't know them well enough to comment really...
Gieves & Hawkes: The perfect travel blazer 4
The Gieves travel blazer is finished and has turned out wonderfully well. First the fit, for that is the most important thing after all. After three fittings everything on the jacket is perfect, from the shape through the waist, to the sleeve length,...
Gieves & Hawkes: The perfect travel blazer 4
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Hi Edward, Sure. On the front of the jacket, there were circular buttonholes sewn, which a button on a shank could be put through, and clipped on the other side. This is fairly easy with buttons that have a shank, like a...
Carreducker at Gieves on St Crispin’s Day
As requested, some shots of Deborah Carre making shoes in the window of Gieves & Hawkes last week, to celebrate St Crispin’s Day. Brave gal, putting herself on display like that!
Carreducker at Gieves on St Crispin’s Day
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And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of shoemakers; For she to-day that sheds his blood with me is my shoemaker...
Gieves & Hawkes: The perfect travel blazer 3
Last week we had the second fitting on the Gieves & Hawkes travel blazer. Given that I’m a new customer and so we are creating a new pattern, both were basted fittings and the first looked much like this one, just with a poorer fit. At...
Gieves & Hawkes: The perfect travel blazer 3
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Nice room. I missed out on garden quad unfortunately. Two years on staircase six and then Stav. Good years though....
Gieves & Hawkes: The perfect travel blazer 2
The most interesting aspect of watching the cutting for the Perfect Travel Blazer this week was, oddly, not the blazer but the trousers we are making to go with it. These are in a mid-grey, 9/10 ounce fresco from J&J Minnis. Fresco is such a...
Gieves & Hawkes: The perfect travel blazer 2
The most interesting aspect of watching the cutting for the Perfect Travel Blazer this week was, oddly, not the blazer but the trousers we are making to go with it. These are in a mid-grey, 9/10 ounce fresco from J&J Min...
EB Meyrowitz: Handmade glasses
EB Meyrowitz always used to sparkle from across the Royal Arcade, as I sat in Cleverley’s chatting to George or Teemu. The serried rows of horn and acetate frames, all in beautiful brown variations, watched by a little jazz band on top of the c...
EB Meyrowitz: Handmade glasses
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Just a heads up for anyone reading this old article. The Worshipful Little Shop of Spectacles in Netil Market, London Fields do a proper bespoke service. Designed for each customer and handmade in house. I recently got a...
Gieves & Hawkes: The perfect travel blazer 1
John Durnin of Gieves & Hawkes does a lot of travelling, as I do myself. It was while discussing recent trips, and standing in the new Gieves Blazer Room, that we conceived the idea of creating the perfect travel blazer. The plan is this. We...
Gieves & Hawkes: The perfect travel blazer 1
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This seems like the first bespoke commission that has been straight down the middle. I wanted something a little different for my first (some double-breasted number that I don’t remember), but the tailor talked me out ...
The Gieves staff locked in Buckingham Palace
At 7:30am this morning Andrew Brett and the other staff of Gieve & Hawkes’s military department dressed 12 members of the Queen’s bodyguard at Buckingham Palace. The uniforms were carried over from No 1 Savile Row last ni...
The Gieves staff locked in Buckingham Palace
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Either way keep up the excellent quality writing, it's rare to see a nice blog like this one nowadays....
Gieves & Hawkes becomes a destination
Yesterday was the grand opening of the new Gieves & Hawkes, after an extensive refurbishment and the inclusion of several friends of Permanent Style. Tim Bent has his dedicated room at the front of the store, as well as some beautiful pieces...
Gieves & Hawkes becomes a destination
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@wookie: Looks like a frock of some sort. It screams cavalry or horse artillery, if I had to guess. The UK has the greatest uniforms in the world: those tailors might be the luckiest out there....
Livery at Henry Poole
The way Keith tells it, in the late eighties the Royal Household had a decision to make. The livery of the Household and Royal Mews was in pretty poor shape. It had largely been made in 1902 (for the coronation of Edward VII), some had been remade in...
Livery at Henry Poole
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Hi Michael, I'm not sure on morning coat and black tie, as it's not something I've ever looked into. But I have seen very nice examples at Henry Poole and Anderson & Sheppard. Certainly, I'd want someone with a lot of ex...
How great things have aged: Bentleys antiques
It’s easy to think that people have always appreciated vintage items like leather luggage, bags and accessories. But back in the early eighties, that wasn’t the case. It was only in the middle of that decade that taste in the UK started t...
How great things have aged: Bentleys antiques
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I once asked the manager of the Lauren section in a department store if I could possibly purchase one of those great "lid over" leather suitcases they used for display, and she said even she couldn't buy one. I jokingly ...
The view from the front (Savile) row
Today was the first menswear show in London I have ever felt inclined to go to – the collaboration between E Tautz, Gieves & Hawkes and Hardy Amies at the latter’s beautiful premises at 14 Savile Row. Only the second time London ...
The view from the front (Savile) row
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i don't know. Double Breasteds are hard enough to wear without narrow button-stances and low gorges that make you look like a slimy playboy. or is that the IN look ? Tautz seem to be trying too hard to be edgy/cool. the ...
