January 29, 2006

english cut in the sunday telegraph

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English Cut gets a nice men­tion today in The Sun­day Tele­graph, one of the big UK papers.
It’s an article about Prince Char­les no lon­ger wea­ring “bes­poke”, ins­tead opting for the chea­per “made-to-measure”.
Two points of per­so­nal inte­rest:
[1] Tho­mas is cited as “one of Britain’s most res­pec­ted tai­lors, who made Prince Charles’s suits for three years…”
[2] Tho­mas is quo­ted directly:

“Twenty years ago — when he was wea­ring Ander­son & Shep­pard — he loo­ked so ele­gant. But in the pho­to­graph two months ago he loo­ked bloody awful in a made-to-measure suit.”

I’m not sure if desc­ri­bing the Prince’s dress sense as “bloody awful” is good PR for us. Maybe, maybe not. But being called “one of Britain’s most res­pec­ted tai­lors” from a natio­nal Esta­blish­ment news­pa­per isn’t exactly bad news.
[BACKGROUND: Tho­mas used to work for Ander­son & Shep­pard, as under­cut­ter to the great Den­nis Hal­berry. While there he was also the main cut­ter for their most impor­tant client i.e. Prince Charles.]

2 Responses to “english cut in the sunday telegraph”

  1. Mary Anne Davis says:
    January 29, 2006 at 6:58 pm

    I won­der why Prince Chal­res doesn’t just wear one of the 20 bes­po­ken suits he already owns? 20 fabu­lous suits seems like plenty, even for a prince. Alte­ra­tions for size change or lapel fashion would be a modest cost as oppo­sed to going into a whole new realm of tai­lo­ring. Is he making a social com­ment? Same ques­tion. Just a thought…

  2. Susan Getgood says:
    January 29, 2006 at 9:20 pm

    I sup­pose it depends on whether the Prince really does look “bloody awful” or not. That I couldn’t say :-) but the tabloid press sure seems to enjoy doing so.
    On balance, I sus­pect this will do you *far* more good than harm. Congrats.