One thing it is easy to get in Jodhpur is jodhpurs. There is a service in the Umaid Bahwan Palace, where we stayed. The nature of jodhpurs - their skin-tight bottom half and interconnection of three panels around the knee - means they should be made ...

A couple of weeks ago I visited the Christys’ hat factory in Witney, outside Oxford. For more on the company, see previous post here. This is a step-by-step tour of the making process.There are essentially two stages to making felt hats: felting an...

John Kent and Stephen Lachter will be visiting New York in a couple of weeks - for John, the first US trip he has done. They will be at Affinia 50, 155 East 50th Street, from May 9 to 13 inclusive.I am a big fan of John and Stephen, as previously rep...

 A quick reminder that we use Instagram for photo updates on events - such as Pitti Uomo this week - alongside posting old shots for the new Insta audience. If you want updates and diary-type shots of our events, follow us @permanentstylelondon. Ab...

  First off, a quick update on the situation with the Robert Noble mill - as readers seemed quite interested in news of the closing down of the historic site in Peebles.As suggested then, the Robert Noble name, designs and some staff (including sal...

  It was lovely to see so many people on Wednesday night at our launch party for The Finest Menswear in the World. Nearly everyone made it, despite the torrential rain, the taxi strikes and the underground closures. Cleverley and Anderson &...

  For anyone that hasn't noted it already, Permanent Style on Instagram now contains a fair bit of content that doesn't make it to the blog: preview shots, extra shots, little diary things. Over the past few weeks you would have seen the frankly r...

I have been included in a list of the Top 10 most influential men in fashion by Esquire. Which is nice. You can read the full article and a short interview here. I dislike the term 'influencer' - frankly if that's how you define yourself, there ca...

I was keen to have a cloth company as one of the exhibitors in our Savile Row pop-up shop. There's nothing like picking cloth from full bolts, where you an drape it around yourself or simply see how a check looks at scale.  Fox Brothers were perfec...

From today, our Finest Knitwear is available to buy in the online shop.  There was a lovely reception to it in the Savile Row pop-up, with dozens of readers coming in to try and to buy. But I'm pleased to say that we still have both V-neck and cr...

Our new book, The Style Guide is available to buy online through Permanent Style and in 3X specialist menswear stores around the world.  Copies will be arriving in the stores listed below on Thursday this week. Please do visit and pick up a copy if...

Note: General Eyewear now has a store in Soho as well as the Camden HQ - details here. Choosing a block of acetate is not something I’d bet most people have done in their lives. And it’s tricky. Looking at a slab of coloured plastic, and imagin...

There was a really lovely atmosphere to the opening of our second pop-up shop on Wednesday night. 'A good vibe', James said, and he was precisely right. Friendly, enthusiastic, interested. A lovely mix of people that all wanted to see and talk abou...

At Pitti back in January, Shuhei Nishiguchi - menswear director at Beams - kindly gave me a copy of his book, ‘Nishiguchi’s Closet’.  I liked it immediately. It rationalised a lot of the outfits I’d seen him wearing over the years, breaki...

I think there is a tendency to view my reviews of artisans as binary - either ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Perhaps because there are just so few bad reviews of luxury products. But the reality is no view is straightforward. Some tailors produce a great p...

This Neapolitan tweed jacket – made recently for me by Elia Caliendo – is perhaps the perfect update of an English classic.  Tweed is a wonderful material – tough, soft and highly wind- and water-resistant. It makes a great jacket for the m...

 This Caliendo hopsack blazer was completed earlier in the year and is now fast becoming the most useful item in my wardrobe.Just like the Solito cashmere blazer I had made for Autumn/Winter last year, it is thrown on with everything: with a shirt a...

When I travel, my default these days is a blouson over shirt and trousers.  It makes a nice switch from tailoring during the working days - perhaps a little more comfortable, but more importantly just a change that feels as good as a rest.  The...

Last Friday was annoyingly cold, and damp.   Combinations of subdued, rich colours always give me the most pleasure - but it felt particularly appropriate on a day like this. The textures of the three pieces also went well together: the fuzzy sur...

 I have received a few questions on this 2009 post about how shoes wear over time recently, and note that there is no post that sets out the basics of how a shoe should fit.Let's start with a simple summary. A shoe should be tight at the back and lo...

  *London trunk show details:February [email protected]+39345840423232 Royal Crescent, London W11, UK*It’s been interesting to watch in recent years how more and more small tailors have come to prominence, getting coverage and an int...

Men wear fewer suits today, as we all know. But they retain the need for a jacket, if only to appear smart or professional. Two of my friends, a doctor and a teacher, are particular examples. Their jobs do not require them to wear a suit, yet a jacke...

CS, Los Angeles: I have been reading PS for the last few months in an effort to educate myself on various matters of style. First and foremost, I want to thank you for the time and effort you put into your work in this area. I suspect that you have a...

  This pale, oatmeal-coloured cashmere is my new favourite sports-jacket material.When men are picking colours for sports jackets, their second choice (after the obviousness of navy) is usually grey. Which can be great, in: a rougher, preppy herrin...

  Chapal are a old, high-quality French producer of leather jackets and coats. They make a few things that won't be to readers' tastes (T-shirts, painted chairs) but it's worth turning a blind eye to that and focusing on the  jackets. I met the ...