The Belgravia, Double-breasted suit
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Double-breasted suit

The Belgravia

From£4,40068 hrs of handwork3 fittingsBespoke · cut to your own patternCloth, a waistcoat and the details move the price; your cutter quotes it at the first fitting.

Six buttons, two to fasten, a peak lapel that reaches for the shoulder and a chalk stripe one shade wider than is polite. The jacket is cut a touch longer; the trouser carries a double forward pleat.

  • Cloth12 oz chalk-stripe worsted, navy
  • ColourNavy chalk-stripe
  • Also cut inCharcoal chalk-stripe
  • LiningMidnight Bemberg
  • ButtonsSmoked horn, six on two
  • DetailsSix-on-two double-breasted
  • Wide peak lapels
  • Double forward pleats
  • Jetted pockets
  • Deep double vents

Your commission, dated

  1. This weekThe first hourCloth chosen, twenty-two measurements taken
  2. Week 4Baste fittingThe coat in white thread, still a sketch
  3. Week 6Forward fittingCanvas padded, pockets cut, balance set
  4. Week 10CollectionFinished by hand, pressed, yours

Included 3 fittings · your paper pattern, kept in the house for life · a monogram sewn by hand · alterations as you change

The cloth

Chalk-stripe worsted, close up.

The Belgravia is cut from 12 oz chalk-stripe worsted, navy. Every cloth on the winter rail is in the cloth room on the home page; any of them can be cut to this pattern.

The cloth room
Chalk-stripe worsted in navy chalk-stripe, close up
The BelgraviaNavy chalk-stripe
12oz

Chalk-stripe worsted

Origin
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Weave
Chalk stripe
Lining
Midnight Bemberg

A stripe with soft edges, as if drawn in tailor's chalk, and one shade wider than is polite.