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November 13, 2008

not so dark days before christmas....

( Lee, his wife Andrea and their son Lewis. This was a couple of months ago, promise no more brushes)

Home safe and sound. Well with all the doom and gloom around I'm pleased to say that the angels of tailoring are still keeping us busy. I wont talk about it too much, instead I'll just keep my head down and get on with things.

I am sorry that I've not been posting much recently, I do promise to try harder. It's not as if we don't have anything to tell you about, in fact it's the opposite, there's been an awful lot going on. At last we're moving into our new workshop in the stables. I'm also delighted that we've recruited a super new tailor. "Lee Oxley" who was completely trained under Don Gibbs, one of the "old school" of Anderson & Sheppard tailors where he trained and worked for the last seven years. He makes a lovely soft coat and will make a wonderful addition to our little company.

To have two young Andersons trained tailors to make our work lets us really concentrate on keeping our clothes made as true as the way I was taught by Mr Hallbery and the other originals of Anderson & Sheppard.

On the whole all of the top tailors seem to be doing well, yes it's a little quieter but hardly a catastrophe the media would have us believe. This may be the secret in that people who are attracted to real bespoke tailoring generally do their research thoroughly. Therefore the same people don't panic when they read the papers or hear the news that another bank is teetering on the brink.

As they say " I'm sure we'll make ends meet" :)

(not bad is it?)

It's always nice to see completed work. You'll recognise this style from a while ago. We made this in a lovely rich brown tweed from Scabal and its new owner can't wait to wear it this winter.

They're a headache to cut and make but I'm sure you'll agree they're worth it.

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