Waistcoats (or "vests" in good American English) haven't been this in style for decades. Perhaps the recession made us all a bit more serious, and many of the guys out there who hoped to be boys forever decided to grow up. Or perhaps we all just decided to think a bit more about history and a bit less about what was new, when future prospects seemed to dim.

This is one of the waistcoats that we designed to go with our early Victorian double-breasted tailcoat style. We wanted a vest that would cut away straight at the hem, exposing a few inches of the waistcoat fabric when the coat was closed. The result has proven popular both with our formal/wedding/tailcoat customers and those […]

This is a round-collar Victorian Vest that we developed awhile back. Like many of our styles, the vest has a very distinctive look that is historically informed and yet (worn with the right outfit) quite modern. The other pictures show the vest with a double-breasted suit that we tailored for a vaudevillian wedding on an […]