Your Consultation

Your bespoke journey begins at 11 Savile Row, W57th Street, or at your Trunk Show appointment, where you will be welcomed by one of our dedicated client managers.

Your client manager will take care of you throughout your bespoke journey, taking the time to understand your lifestyle, requirements, and sartorial ambitions.

Together, you will select from our comprehensive library of the world’s finest cloths, from lightweight wools to luxurious cashmeres and rare fibres, before discussing details of the cut, style, and finishing details of your garment.

Taking Your Measures

Once these details are decided, your Client Manager will introduce you to your cutter. Your cutter will be responsible for taking your measurements and translating them into your paper pattern. It is your cutter who will be responsible for the evolution of your garment, from the two-dimensional cloth pieces, to the fully finished bespoke garment.

At your consultation, your cutter will begin by take more than twenty eight precise measurements, as well as assessing posture and stance. They might ask you how you prefer to stand, sit and move, all important considerations when beginning the bespoke process.

Drafting Your Pattern

Once your Cutter has taken your measurements, a unique paper pattern will be drafted entirely by hand. This is an exclusive blueprint that serves as the foundation of your garment. This pattern is yours alone and will be refined over time, ensuring a perfect fit that evolves with you. Every nuance and distinction of your body will be carefully translated from your set of measures.

Your pattern may well last you a lifetime, being adjusted and adapted with every commission to ensure a perfect fit.

Striking & Cutting

When your paper pattern is complete, the cloth you have chosen is carefully laid out and “struck.”

This is the moment where your cutter places the paper pattern onto the fabric and chalks around each section, marking out the future garment by hand. Every line is marked with precision, ensuring that checks, stripes, and motifs run seamlessly through the finished piece. Once chalked out, the cloth is cut by hand with shears, a ritual unchanged for centuries, and the true beginning of your bespoke garment.

This is the part of the process where engineering meets art, and even a little magic. Guided not only by measurements but also by the cutter’s rock of eye, an instinctive feel for your form, balance and proportion, the cutter allows their natural intuition to take control, with each fluid movement, in a technique that honours the tradition and artistry of bespoke tailoring.

Your Baste Fitting

Don't be alarmed when you visit us for your first, or 'baste' fitting. Once the cloth is cut, it is bundled up and sent downstairs to assembled in its roughest form, known as the “baste.”

At this fitting, you will try on your garment for the first time, though it will be missing the noticeable nuances of a finished garment.

Your cutter will use this fitting carefully assess balance, proportion, and silhouette, making chalk markings and notes that will inform the adjustments required. This stage ensures the garment begins to take on the unmistakable Huntsman house style- clean, elegant, and timeless.

Your Second Fitting

After your baste fitting, your garment isn't simply altered; it is completely dismantled and remade, incorporating every adjustment from scratch.

At your next fitting, you'll see a garment that much more closely resembles the finished item. The structure, shoulder line, and drape will be refined further, with the addition of pockets, lapels, and sleeves. Remember -each fitting builds towards perfection, with as many as three required to achieve the exact line and comfort for which we are renowned.

Hand Finishing

Once approved, your garment is entrusted to our finishers, who spend hours crafting every finishing detail. From carefully pressing and shaping the canvassing, to hand-padded lapels and hand-sewn buttonholes, no shortcut is taken.

Every stitch reflects generations of craft, carried out within our Savile Row workrooms. Over eighty hours of handwork, as many as six thousand hand stitches, and as many as fifteen pairs of hands go into making every Huntsman garment.