Grey Suit

A grey suit is an absolute staple for any man who is considering building a wardrobe. The trend nowadays with the off the peg companies, and the high-end fashion houses is for them to market and sell bright, garish coloured suits to the mass herds that file trough their doors. These ‘individuals’ are in fact about as individual as the millions of wildebeest that migrate yearly across the vast savannah plains of Africa.

I have a picture below of a beautiful classic grey all wool English cloth, woven in Yorkshire of course, and I have feathered the cloths so that this classic grey is laid on top of a striped morning suit trouser cloth for a contrast.

The grey suit is such a versatile colour for a man, I often think that it quite wrongly plays second fiddle to the much-lauded blue suit. I personally feel that the grey suit is far superior to the blue suit, especially for business, in so much that it often shows that a man has given some thought to his actual attire and appearance and doesn’t want to look the same as everyone else at the office.

Grey Suit

So which grey to go for ? Well, if you are lucky enough to be able to visit the bespoke, or semi-bespoke options then personally I would always steer a client towards either a subtle herringbone cloth design, a nice pick and pick cloth, or a nail head. I have never been a strong advocate of simple ‘solid’ cloths, yes they have a place, but if you are paying for a suit to be made then I believe the cloth should at least have some character.

Plain solids are easy to find off the peg, but a tailored suit that you may require for best or special occasions should have that little something else that differentiates it from a run of the mill ready to wear number. The picture below shows the breast welt pocket of a clients coat that I am hand sewing. This particular cloth is a very understated, subtle 10oz grey glen check all wool from Holland and Sherry cloth merchants.

Grey Suit

The grey suit is in my opinion effortless to wear and far easier than its blue cousin. The colour grey allows the wearer to exude confidence and sophistication without looking like he has just stepped out of a boardroom meeting. The problem with blue is it is just TOO damn formal.

Two of the pictures at the bottom are showing me, quick shield your eyes, wearing my soft grey stripe suit that I have made for myself. This cloth is a 13oz all wool classic from Dugdales in Huddersfield, I absolutely love this cloth and this suit. It’s a three-piece suit, I am not wearing my waistcoat in this picture.

The reason I love this suit and this particular striped grey suit so much is because of its easy ability to mask a lot of my bulk. I am around 5’9″ but I dress out at around 16st 10lbs, so I am no shrinking violet. I was talking to a friend when the pictures were taken so my mouth seems a bit odd, but then again it could just be my mouth, I am after all an ugly bugger.

Bespoke Or Custom Suits

Custom suits is an American term that is used to describe a tailor-made suit that is in essence the equivalent of an English full bespoke suit. So it’s really only a slight difference in the terminology but in reality custom suits are bespoke suits.

Here at Merrion Bespoke, our bespoke or custom suits are both stylish and timeless. Put your best foot forward and dress with intent. We provide numerous traditional methods to capture your measurements in order to create your bespoke or custom suits. Select the option that matches your level of convenience, and your garments will be ready in 6-8 weeks. You can find all my suit prices and make an appointment here 

Choose either my entry level Made To Measure. Mid range Semi Bespoke. Or my top end traditional Full Bespoke. Rest assured that all my bespoke or custom suits are genuinely handmade to your individual measure. I do not outsource any part of your order to a third party.

Every item is hand- cut and hand-made by a master craftsman at our Castleford premises to the client’s individual pattern. All my bespoke suits are handmade to your precise requirements to create a garment that is uniquely tailored to you.

Bespoke Suits London

For quite a while I used to visit the USA several times a year to measure and fit American clients that required my bespoke tailoring. I used to visit New York for 3-4 days, and then I would often fly down to Atlanta where I would stay usually for two days. Because I am a cut and make tailor It got to the point where I was struggling to service two fronts, namely the UK and the USA. My trips got the point that in my last year of visiting America I was over there five times which sounds quite glamorous, but in reality it was five weeks that I wasn’t actually cutting or making anything back home in the UK.

However, that said, I used to really enjoy visiting my clients overseas and some days I do miss hopping over the pond. I am rather lucky though to still have quite a few American clients that I still make bespoke suits for, the difference nowadays is that my US clients tend to fly into London for business or pleasure where I will then meet them and deal with any of their tailoring requirements while they are here in the UK.

Custom Suits

So, here are a few pictures of a suit that I am making for one of my American clients. This particular bespoke suit is for a New York client of mine that is a lawyer.

Bespoke Suits

Here at Merrion Bespoke, our bespoke suits are both stylish and timeless. Choose from our collection of bespoke suits to put your best foot forward and dress with intent. We provide numerous methods to capture your measurements in order to create your bespoke suits. Select the option that matches your level of convenience, and your garments will be ready in 6-8 weeks. You can find all my suit prices and make an appointment here 

Every item is hand- cut and hand-made by a master craftsman at our Castleford premises to the client’s individual pattern. And all my bespoke suits are handmade to your precise requirements to create a garment that is uniquely tailored to you.

Choose either my entry level Made To Measure. Mid range Semi Bespoke. Or my top end traditional Full Bespoke. Rest assured that all my suits are genuinely handmade to your individual measure. I do not outsource any part of your order to a third party.

Bespoke Suits

I have always been a firm believer in good honest advice told in plain English. Clients always have a choice. They can either buy into the heritage, history, craft and art of a real, time served bespoke tailor like myself. Or they can buy into the self promoting hype, the fancy location and bullshit talk of a salesman that is posing as a tailor. It’s really that simple. A real bespoke tailor is someone who has actually apprenticed under a master or in my case several masters. Buyer beware, do your research and make sure you are getting a real bespoke suit, you have been warned.

A ‘normal’ suit that is made in any kind of modern factory set up will take merely minutes to fully make. Of course you couldn’t follow a suit from the cutting room to the final despatch in a few minutes, but the actual time, or time and motion time due to the nature of sub division on a large-scale means the actual make time for a suit is very low indeed. My late fathers factory as an example made a fully machined two piece suit around every 25 minutes. By comparison, all my bespoke suits will take at least 65 full man hours of my time to make. There is just no comparison between a real bespoke made suit in terms of quality, fit, the customer service you will receive and a factory made suit however it may be dressed up, period.