Launch: Our Fully Hand Stitched Suit
Two things in life everyman wants: An Aston Martin and a Savile Row suit to complete the look.
Now imagine the picture, you get a call from the kind gents making those automobiles and they offer you one at a quarter of the price that Even Mr Bond would pay, surely you would bite their right arm off?
Well over the past 12 months we have been toiling away under a shroud of secrecy, deployed a series of smoke screens and mirrors to fend of the inquisitive.
And although we have failed to convince those chaps to offer the car at a discount we have worked to create a new level of suit that’s hits the stipulations of a true “West-end”suit and also at one quarter of the price.
The suits contains over 5000 hand stitches, a fully floating canvass which helps create a sharper looking suit but also a more comfortable one. Below are the guidelines for of a Savile Row suit and the standards we have tried to achieve with this suit.
1) Inlays to allow 3” adjustements to the main body seams
2) All linings to be felled by hand
3) Hand prick-stitched vent and front edge
4) Slanting breast pocket with hand stitched border
5) Top collar hand draw-stitched onto the facing
6) Hand stitched front buttonholes and left lapel buttonhole with sewn flower loop. Inlay under collar
7) Cuff with opening slit and hand stitched buttonholes
8) Armhole lining eased and hand felled
9) Front and cuff buttons sewn by hand with cross stitch
10) Hand top-stitching on the front pockets
11) Linen used to reinforce pockets and gorge
12) Sleeves to be set in by hand
13) Hand cut and shaped shoulder pads and canvass
14) Hand canvassing on jacket foreparts
The hand-stitched suit is available from our shop and fitting days and will soon be launched online.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Sirs,
Have you plans to offer your handsewn suits via your online portal? If so, might you suggest the price range for such goods?
Best Regards,
Barry Sullivan
October 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Sirs,
Have you plans to offer your hand-stitched suits via your online portal in the not too remote future. I live in the United States and have been spoiled by the efforts of my bespoke tailor. His prices, I’m afraid to say, have spoiled my bank account balance.
Please advise.
Barry Sullivan
October 21st, 2009 at 7:17 am
Hi Barry,
Indeed we will offer the hand-stitched suit to online customers but it will be on request only for now. This is largely due to the fact that due to the huge extra hand work involved we have a finite capacity of what our cutters and tailors can produce on a daily/weekly basis. All of the tailors that make this grade of our suiting specifically only make our hand stitched suits due the extra skill level.
We will be posting soon an article showing the suit and its construction in photos.
Any queries or questions please do email us at info@cadandthedandy.co.uk
October 21st, 2009 at 7:36 pm
can i send over an existing shirt / jacket and pair of trousers i am happy with as an accurate guide of measurement?
October 30th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Absolutely, all such parcels should be sent to Cad & The Dandy Ltd, 4 Castle Court, London EC3V 9DL
February 26th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Dear Sirs,
Is this hand-stitch option charged at extra or will it be the same price as the machine-stitched?
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Hello Sir,
Yes the Hand-stitched suit does cost extra due to the extra man hours and skill needed to create this type of suit. We offer 2 differing levels. One £150 and one £300 extra. I hope to further expand on our site soon the different levels of construction offered. Thanks for your interest.