Oops, I’m posing in a double breasted bespoke blue suit again. This one is from Turin tailor Michele Mescia. It is a somewhat different creature than the bespoke blue suit with shirt shoulders. Mescia has made me a more roomy coat and wider trousers than the other Italian tailor, lapels are larger, and Mescia has attached an extra jigger ...

Many tailors and some of their customers love (fine) vintage cloth, because it easier to shape with the iron than the modern tissue paper fabrics. In general tailors can deliver a bespoke suit, which drape more elegantly, if they use vintage cloth. The downside is the coarseness and the weight, which you must get used to. ...

In September a reader  ordered a formal cashmere overcoat at Sartoria Ripense in Rome. He got his inspiration from an old Esquire image (see below). Esquire describes the overcoat as “a paddock coat”, but it is perhaps closer to a Victorian frock overcoat. The mysterious Sator has claimed that. In any case, the overcoat is impressive. The reader wrote to ...

I’ve seen two suits in real life from Milanese bespoke tailor Musella Dembech. This linen suit I like a lot. It is made for Jeppe. Jeppe has a demanding build for a tailor but Musella Dembech handles it well. Shoulders are beautiful: light, with a little room, natural. Although the linen is crumpling, you see that front ...

A real bespoke suit below 1000 euro is rare in Europe. They make it on Sicily, and I believe you can locate it in a few tailor shops in Eastern Europe. I would never have thought you can stumple upon it in Turin, the wealthy city in Northern Italy. Yet, you can. In a shop of ...