Back to Business

Dear readers, I have returned. I would say triumphantly, but currently (as those of you who follow my twitter account will be aware) I’m typing this to you from an old, rickety and bloody-pressure raisingly slow laptop, without a digital camera. It seems that I've been cursed by the God of blogging technology. Anyhow, the blog is back and I just wanted to update you all on some plans to develop it before we get back into writing about the world of fine tailoring.

It’s a busy time, and I've got a number of plans to be worked into reality over the coming months. I’m hoping to expand the blog’s role as a reviewing platform and I intend to start offering more insight into desirable brands and products in the new year, so that readers will be given more advice about where to go to get the best shirt, or tie or shoes etc… I also am hoping to be able to produce some more industry focused features, although obviously most companies are currently running down for Christmas at the moment. There will be fresh insights into new stores, brands and menswear collections to come over the coming months. I also have a series of interviews scheduled with various influential menswear professionals which will be taking shape over the next week or so. Watch this space! For now, I have one further project with the Cad & the Dandy forthcoming, the genesis of which you can read about here. 

With this new bespoke project in mind, I’m also going to start to introduce readers to a tailoring service which receives very little coverage in the tailoring world, as its constantly shut-out in favour of the far less accessible and affordable bespoke tailoring. I’m talking about ‘Personal Tailoring’ an ingenious service which is designed to breech the gap between high end off-the-peg tailoring, and full bespoke services. Personal tailoring allows for a similar product to a bespoke garment to be made to the customer's measurements using a number of the features of bespoke tailoring, and a wealth customisation options for a fraction of the price of full-bespoke. In this sense it fulfills the luxury tailoring mid-market, as a significant step up from off-the-peg and a step towards true bespoke. I’m not going to pretend that personal tailoring comes anywhere close to fully bespoke services in terms of quality or attention to detail, but it can nonetheless provide an extremely good quality product, priced competitively, which is arguably more relevant to today’s marketplace. I myself am a perfect example of the tailoring enthusiast who aspires to have something made for himself, but cannot afford a fraction of the four to five thousand pounds required for old-school bespoke tailoring; thus, it is personal tailoring that I shall be exploring and reviewing, and I hope that it’ll prove an invaluable source of product advice and interesting insight.

I’m also trying to make the effort to develop my other content. I’m aiming to offer the usual complement of style advice and insights into the industry, alongside some more conceptual pieces; discussing broader issues surrounding the menswear industry with a view to provide some industry insight and knowledge to readers, as well as provoke fresh thoughts.

As you can probably tell, I’m extremely excited about developing the blog further, and I hope that you’ll enjoy following this next phase of growth (once I have my laptop repaired and a new camera on the way of course!) as the ‘Student Tailor’ prepares to take on the big boys – wish me luck!