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Welcome to my blog on all things to do with the world of bespoke tailoring. You will see plenty of my past commissions within these articles, but as always if there is anything in particular you would like to see or discuss, please do get in touch.

 

mens custom suits

Mens Custom Suits

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bespoke morning coat

Tailors Leeds

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Bespoke Tailoring

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bespoke suits

Tweed Wedding Suit

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black tie

Black Tie

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tailors leeds

Bespoke Tailors

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Bespoke morning coat

Bespoke Morning Coats

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Women’s bespoke suits

Women’s Bespoke Suits

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bespoke morning coat

Bespoke Morning Coat

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The handmade buttonhole

Handmade Buttonholes

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wedding suits for men

Wedding Suits For Men

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Bespoke business suits

How Honest Is Your Tailor ?

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grey suit example

The Yorkshire Tailor

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Classic Grey Suit

Classic Grey Suit

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cloth samples

Blue Suit

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chesterfield overcoat

Chesterfield Overcoat

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Tweed coat

Tweed Coat

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Grey Glen Check Cloth

Grey Suit

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Pick and Pick Cloth

Bespoke Or Custom Suits

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bespoke suits

Bespoke Suits

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Back neck section showing the top collar pattern matching through the coat back.

J and J Minnis

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Bespoke mohair coat waiting for the sleeves to be hand basted in for a forward fitting.

Mohair Suits

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Coat linings all to be hand finished.

Basted Fitting

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Shooting Suits

Shooting Suits & Tweed

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Four real hand-made button holes, and a pure silk gauntlet cuff.

Bespoke Dinner Suit

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Hand made button holes

Hand Made Button Holes

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Closer picture of the lady’s jacket.

Chanel Jacket

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The cuff of my bespoke coat I recently made for myself. Hand made button holes and real horn buttons.

Working Button Holes

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Just as I am turning around.

Des Merrion Tailor

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Me hand basting a canvas.

Bespoke Tailors Yorkshire

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Fit

Bespoke Tailoring Classes

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Cloth

Checked Tweed Suit

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des merrion work

Bespoke Coats

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Here I am sat at home hand making a clients canvas.

Bespoke Tailored Suits Leeds

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The breast welt of the coat matched both ways.

Bespoke Pattern Matching

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learn tailoring

Learn Tailoring

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A clients pattern I have hand drafted.

Savile Row Tailors

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Full bespoke hand canvas, hand basted into a clients coat, the shape is obvious to see.

Desmond Merrion

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Fancy your trousers finished like this ?I particularly like the pen mark on the rubber roll cap!

Tailored Suits, Look For ?

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Desmond Merrion bespoke tailor Leeds new label

Desmond Merrion Bespoke Tailor

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Front fly ( zip ) section carefully hand stitched and hand finished.

Made To Measure Trousers

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mens bespoke suits

Bespoke Coat

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Me hand stitching my label into a clients made to measure suit

Made To Measure Suits

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tweed wedding suits

Made To Measure Suits Leeds

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Waistband extension should be sharp, and STRAIGHT

Bespoke Trousers

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This picture shows me hand basting and fixing the lining into the inner coat armhole.

Bespoke Tailors Leeds Yorkshire

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Setting the vents on a coat ready to press.

Pressing

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mens bespoke suits

Mens Bespoke Suits

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Cloth bunches on the table in my workroom. I will only use merchants cloth that is world class and woven in Yorkshire, end of !

English Cloth

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Cashmere and silk lilac cloth, attention to detail pocket matching through the seam.

Ladies Bespoke Tailors

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The perfect shoulder and sleeve.

Savile Row Bespoke Suits

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Stitching tailoring

Tailoring Blog

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