After the measurements and design have been thrashed out between customer and tailor and cloth selected we need to obviously call off the cloth from the fabric supplier. By not holding fabric ourselves like all other major tailors we can free up cash flow and offer far more cloth from more merchants.

In this instance Chris Eubank selected a cloth from a mill in Huddersfield from where it is couriered to us.

Whilst the cloth is making its way down from “up north” we begin work on making the paper pattern.

This paper pattern is the blue print for the suit and is created and held for every customer from which all future orders will be made from. This is strictly drawn up by hand and although more time consuming than chalking straight onto the cloth (skipping the step of pattern making on paper) this is the age old way and long may it continue. It is created by a human for a human. Computer generated pattern making is far more suited for made to measure tailoring.

Once the paper pattern has been made this is then laid out onto the cloth from which each peice of the pattern is cut. The art of tailoring starts here. It is essential that all stripes match where possible and this is no easy task. Laying out the pattern well taking up as little cloth of possible is key to keeping our costs competitive and not seeing huge cloth waste.