So You Can’t Spend 2000 Quid on a Suit
Listening to: Rites of Spring - The Bravery
I found this post fascinating:
Earlier this year, I wrote “So
you can’t afford bespoke”, which covers the main hierarchies of tailoring:
“ready to wear”, “made to measure”, “bespoke” etc.After receiving a lot of e-mails from English Cut readers, it’s pretty obvious
that there’s plenty of people out there who would love to have a handmade suit from
any of the wonderful tailors on
Savile Row. But the reality is; they don’t come cheap. Not everybody has £2000 to
spend on a garment.What if you have only £200 to spend? [approx. $350-400 US] For that money, I’m
afraid all you’ll get on Savile Row is a very good meal for you and your friends at Sartoria,
a lovely restaurant on the corner of Savile Row and Old Burlington Street.Realistically, for £200 you’ll probably have to settle for a standard ready-to-wear,
unless you get very lucky and find a good second-hand bespoke in a charity shop (which
does happen occasionally), or you happen to know the name of a good tailor in the
Far East.That being said, for £200 you actually can get a ready-to-wear decent enough to
convince us in the trade that you spent more around the £600-700 mark (approx. $1000
US). Just as long as you ignore the labels and follow these points:
If anything it makes the walk down Lambton Quay a bit of a trainspotting exercise
