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Bespoke Tweed Suits

When it comes to wool fabrics, no type of fabric represents menswear heritage like tweed: Classic weaves like herringbones, and houndstooth.  Flecked Irish Donegal yarns with so many colors.  Estate plaids and hunting thornproof. These fabrics are part of an ancient tradition that dates back over 2,000 years in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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The Future of American Sportswear

In the United States, we tend to call the best business and formal looks and fits “European” or “Italian” or “British,”–sometimes for good reason, and sometimes merely as a shorthand for saying that a look is “good” or “exciting” or somehow intangibly different from the basic relaxed New England look that we are used to […]

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Editions ’36–Custom Sportswear

Our Editions '36 pieces are constructed one-at-a-time from authentic heavy weight woolens and cottons to create pieces with the same durability that garments had in the 1930s. The pieces are totally unstructured and quite fitted with high armholes for extra movement. We can also add back pleats and gussets for "an action back" with even more movement, depending on the activities you plan on doing while wearing the jacket.

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Custom Winter Coats

There are lots of great winter coats in the stores.  But what we offer is something a bit different. You dream up the perfect coat, and we will work with you to craft the perfect style and pattern. One customer for whom we made a coat recently wanted a early-to-mid century style RAF greatcoat like […]

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Three-Piece Tweed Suits

It is hard to think of anything more classic than getting married in a 3-piece tweed herringbone suit. The blonde herringbone suit that you see here was designed for a customer who wanted to flavor his wedding with a bit of the old West. In particular, he wondered whether we couldn’t make him a suit […]

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Silk Reefer Suit

Here are some pictures of a suit that Lianna and I designed awhile back. I wanted to make a suit that was similar to Victorian seaside and reefer suits, but that had a slightly more updated and modern fit. The fabric I ended up choosing was a silk matka. This tweedy raw silk fabric (blended […]

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Houndstooth

This is a houndstooth double-breasted suit lined in grey silk habotai that we completed today for a customer in London. The suiting is an incredible British woolen that entrances the more one looks at it. For this piece we put buttonholes on each of the lapels with a boutonnière ribbon on the left side for […]

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