The Dinner Jacket
Peak lapel faced in silk grosgrain, no vent, single button. Trousers with a braid down the seam and no belt loops — a dinner suit has never needed a belt.
Made to measure · Since the first fitting
Black cloth reads green under evening light. It always has. That is why every dinner jacket we cut starts as midnight-blue wool — and why ours is the only one in the room that still looks black at midnight.
Front panel · midnight worsted 13oz · basted in red
What we make
We don't carry a catalogue. There are three garments we cut, and we cut them until they're right. Everything else is a conversation.
Peak lapel faced in silk grosgrain, no vent, single button. Trousers with a braid down the seam and no belt loops — a dinner suit has never needed a belt.
For the ceremony, and for the ten years of weddings after it. Waistcoat cut high enough to sit under the jacket button without gaping when you sit down.
Groom and up to twelve, cut from one bolt so nobody turns up in a different shade of the same colour. Measured in one sitting, at your place if it's easier.
How it goes
A suit that fits is not cut in one go. It is cut, opened up on you, and cut again. Here is exactly what that costs you in time.
Twenty-six measurements, posture read from behind, and cloth chosen in daylight. You leave with nothing. That's the point.
The jacket arrives held together in white thread. You put it on, we cut it open on your shoulders and re-chalk it. It looks alarming. It's working.
Sleeve length to the shirt cuff, collar flat to the neck, button stance set to your height. Small moves now, nothing structural.
Pressed, bagged, and your paper pattern filed under your name. The next one only needs one fitting.
Under the cloth
Every corner worth cutting is inside the jacket, where a customer can't check. So here it is in writing.
Book a fitting
Tell us when you're wearing it and we'll tell you honestly whether there's time to do it properly. If there isn't, we'll say so.
The workroom · Mon–Sat 11:00–20:00
Sunday by appointment