May 1, 2005

tailors’ den

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A nice wee post from Tho­mas on visi­ting a tai­lors’ den, five minu­tes walk from Savile Row.

Spea­king of trou­sers, when I was in Lon­don this week I stop­ped by my trou­ser maker for a “skif­fle” (tailor’s term for a rush job), who works out of this den in Kin­gley Street. Though Soho is now mostly known for its trendy cafes, media com­pa­nies and ad agen­cies, as you can see Old Lon­don is thank­fully still with us.
The vast majo­rity of sewing tai­lors are self-employed, with their dens scat­te­red around within wal­king dis­tance of Savile Row. All the coats you see being made here will come from all the famous tai­lors’ shops– A&S, Hunts­man, Poole’s etc. And that’s the way it’s been for as long as anyone can remember.

I’ve been to a few of these dens in the last few weeks. They’re all inte­res­ting pla­ces– char­mingly Dic­ken­sian sweatshops in the base­ments of the most expen­sive real estate in London.

One Response to “tailors’ den”

  1. GILBERT LUMPKINS says:
    May 11, 2005 at 12:25 am

    Dear sir/ma
    I am Gil­bert Lump­kins. I’ve inte­rest in your com­pa­nies cus­tom tai­lo­red shirts. I need you to tell me what it would cost for 20 shirts of 100% cot­ton mate­rial, i also have an inten­tion of sen­ding the shirts to clients and friends of mine around the world,Nigeria precisely,as gifts and i know you would be able to assist me with making ship­ments via any repu­ta­ble cou­rier service(FEDEX OR DHL).
    Kindly get back to me with the total cost for 20 shirts or other way round if you have them in stock, i would purchase as far as they are of 100% cot­ton shirts and i would also want to know if pay­ment could be made with my secu­red cre­dit card account. i.e MASTER CARD OR VISA CARD.So that you can supply the shirts to my client as fast as you could.
    I look for­ward to your swift res­ponse.
    Sin­cere Regards,
    Gil­bert Lump­kins
    MY UK CONTACT
    Phone-07031944735