Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:09 pm  

Wheels wrote:

Do you reckon a tailor could get a suit jacket to fit me properly in my wheelchair?

Every off-the-peg suit I've ever had looks stupid as the jacket never fits with me always being sat down.

Hmm.

Unless you get an ironmonger to adjust your wheelchair instead?!

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:25 pm  

Dave Lister wrote: ... I really want a tweed suit but the prices are really putting me off.... Bookster make hacking jackets and tweed suits, good quality cloth but I haven't tried them so I don't know how good the construction is. http://www.tweed-jacket.com/index.html

Dave Lister wrote: ... I really want a tweed suit but the prices are really putting me off.... Bookster make hacking jackets and tweed suits, good quality cloth but I haven't tried them so I don't know how good the construction is. http://www.tweed-jacket.com/index.html

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:28 pm  

Depends on your budget but http://tigerofsweden.com/ Tiger is my favourite clothes brand by far, got a few suits by them and they are top drawer.

Depends on your budget but http://tigerofsweden.com/ Tiger is my favourite clothes brand by far, got a few suits by them and they are top drawer.

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:32 pm  

Wheels wrote: Do you reckon a tailor could get a suit jacket to fit me properly in my wheelchair? Every off-the-peg suit I've ever had looks stupid as the jacket never fits with me always being sat down. Hmm. A bespoke tailor certainly could but it's gonna cost you, so look for something timeless rather than fashionable. A first port of call I'd contact if I were you, is Toby Luper of Hemingway in Leeds. He comes from an old-established line of tailors and seems to have a good reputation. His bespoke stuff is sewn by Cheshire Bespoke but he offshores his MtM garments. What you need to know is that these established guys have probably done it all and more, many times over. Bespoke tailors usually have a uniform service and they will have tailored for the legless, armless and otherwise infirm. They know exactly how their garments will perform in any given situation. One of my pervading fears is to pick up a bespoke suit or jacket, only to find on closer inspection that either an arm or pants leg is three inches shorter than the other

Wheels wrote: Do you reckon a tailor could get a suit jacket to fit me properly in my wheelchair? Every off-the-peg suit I've ever had looks stupid as the jacket never fits with me always being sat down. Hmm. A bespoke tailor certainly could but it's gonna cost you, so look for something timeless rather than fashionable. A first port of call I'd contact if I were you, is Toby Luper of Hemingway in Leeds. He comes from an old-established line of tailors and seems to have a good reputation. His bespoke stuff is sewn by Cheshire Bespoke but he offshores his MtM garments. What you need to know is that these established guys have probably done it all and more, many times over. Bespoke tailors usually have a uniform service and they will have tailored for the legless, armless and otherwise infirm. They know exactly how their garments will perform in any given situation. One of my pervading fears is to pick up a bespoke suit or jacket, only to find on closer inspection that either an arm or pants leg is three inches shorter than the other

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:41 pm  

OK ... my turn with a question.

I have a Harris Tweed jacket (*) in a rather fetching shade of turquoisey-blue.
I bought it in a sample sale in the early 1990's (which proably explains why I've never seen another).

It has the boxy shoulders that were the fashion back then and, because I like the cloth so much, I'd like it remodelled.

I don't want to take it to somewhere that just does trouser shortening and such, so does anyone have any recommendations for alteration tailors who could do this, in the West Riding of God's Own County?


(*) Genuine Harris Tweed ... and Saville Row would call it a coat ... but it's a jacket

[Wheels]

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:45 pm  

cod'ead wrote: A bespoke tailor certainly could but it's gonna cost you, so look for something timeless rather than fashionable. A first port of call I'd contact if I were you, is Toby Luper of Hemingway in Leeds. He comes from an old-established line of tailors and seems to have a good reputation. His bespoke stuff is sewn by Cheshire Bespoke but he offshores his MtM garments. What you need to know is that these established guys have probably done it all and more, many times over. Bespoke tailors usually have a uniform service and they will have tailored for the legless, armless and otherwise infirm. They know exactly how their garments will perform in any given situation. One of my pervading fears is to pick up a bespoke suit or jacket, only to find on closer inspection that either an arm or pants leg is three inches shorter than the other Thank you very much mate, appreciate that. It'll be for my impending wedding in May 2013 so no mad rush just yet. I will be having a smart, timeless black suit though, along with my groomsmen. Lovely stuff.

cod'ead wrote: A bespoke tailor certainly could but it's gonna cost you, so look for something timeless rather than fashionable. A first port of call I'd contact if I were you, is Toby Luper of Hemingway in Leeds. He comes from an old-established line of tailors and seems to have a good reputation. His bespoke stuff is sewn by Cheshire Bespoke but he offshores his MtM garments. What you need to know is that these established guys have probably done it all and more, many times over. Bespoke tailors usually have a uniform service and they will have tailored for the legless, armless and otherwise infirm. They know exactly how their garments will perform in any given situation. One of my pervading fears is to pick up a bespoke suit or jacket, only to find on closer inspection that either an arm or pants leg is three inches shorter than the other Thank you very much mate, appreciate that. It'll be for my impending wedding in May 2013 so no mad rush just yet. I will be having a smart, timeless black suit though, along with my groomsmen. Lovely stuff.

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:51 pm  

Dave if you are in Chiswick there is a bespoke tailor just before Stamford brooke bus garage, Cannot think of the name top of my head but very good. Got the wedding suit done there and works ones too.

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:54 pm  

El Barbudo wrote:

OK ... my turn with a question.

I have a Harris Tweed jacket (*) in a rather fetching shade of turquoisey-blue.
I bought it in a sample sale in the early 1990's (which proably explains why I've never seen another).

It has the boxy shoulders that were the fashion back then and, because I like the cloth so much, I'd like it remodelled.

I don't want to take it to somewhere that just does trouser shortening and such, so does anyone have any recommendations for alteration tailors who could do this, in the West Riding of God's Own County?


(*) Genuine Harris Tweed ... and Saville Row would call it a coat ... but it's a jacket

Sorry mate but I can lay claim to a master seamstress who was Savile Row trained. She works in our local Post Office and although she's no longer "in the trade", she does the odd guvvy job for a bottle or two of wine.

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:59 pm  

Wheels wrote:

Do you reckon a tailor could get a suit jacket to fit me properly in my wheelchair?

Every off-the-peg suit I've ever had looks stupid as the jacket never fits with me always being sat down.

Hmm.

People always seem to speak highly of Kristoffers on Kirkstall Rd (opposite Iceland etc) whenever this question arises on southstander.com, and then there's that bespoke tailors opposite St Chads church ?

Re: Suits : Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:15 pm  

If you are around the M62 corridor, The Suit Length Centre in Bradford carries a fantastic range of cloths complete with staff that would give The Fast Show a run for their money.

They can also put you in touch with a decent tailor.