Climbwise Tailoring

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Recent work from the room

Client garments are photographed with permission and rotated often. What you see below left the atelier within the last few months.

Navy full-canvas two piece suit on a wooden hanger — Navy two piece11oz tropical wool, half-lined for KL wear. A banker’s fourth commission from the same evolving pattern.

Pale sand unstructured linen jacket on a dress form — Sand linen jacketUnstructured Irish linen with a soft shoulder — cut for garden weddings and long lunches.

Midnight blue dinner jacket with satin shawl lapel — Midnight dinner jacketShawl lapel in silk satin, built for a violinist who conducts in it. Midnight reads richer than black under stage light.

Stack of pressed custom shirts in white and pale blue — Shirt wardrobe, batch twoSix two-fold poplins on one refined pattern — the quiet workhorse commission of the house.

Groom checking an ivory dinner jacket in the atelier mirror — Ivory for the aisleA groom’s final fitting, three weeks out. The jacket was finished ten days early — as wedding work always should be.

Jacket in the baste stage with visible canvas and white stitching — Mid-basteWhat a suit looks like when it can still be changed. This stage is why ours fit and rush jobs do not.

Small navy blazer fitted on a young boy — First blazer, age sevenCut with two years of growing room hidden in the seams. His father’s pattern hangs in the same archive drawer.

Tailor pinning trousers during an alteration fitting — The rescue benchA vintage jacket relined and re-shouldered rather than replaced. Our favourite kind of stubbornness.

Your Turn

The archive has room for one more pattern

Every garment above began with a thirty-minute conversation. Yours can start this week.