Category Archives: Tweed Suits

The Meaning of Bespoke Handwork

There is nothing harder than trying to describe true bespoke clothing to a perspective client today. The market is saturated with factory made goods that are somewhat customizable in color and fit, but have nothing to do with the art of tailoring.

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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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Plaid Sport Suits and Jackets

For daytime outdoor wear, plaid is supreme. Whether you are at a wedding, the museum, or just headed out for brunch with your friends, a plaid sport coat or vest is ideal. The look is much less uptight than an evening look in black, and much less of a purely “business” look than navy. Because […]

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Custom-Tailored Silk Suits

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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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