The Highgate, Double-breasted suit
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Double-breasted suit

The Highgate

From£4,50068 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.

A Prince of Wales check with a faint bottle-green overcheck, cut double-breasted with a soft shoulder so it sits like a cardigan and reads like a threat. For the man who runs the room without raising his voice.

  • Cloth13 oz Prince of Wales check, charcoal and bone
  • ColourCharcoal Prince of Wales
  • Also cut inBrown Prince of Wales
  • LiningBottle-green Bemberg
  • ButtonsDark horn, six on two
  • DetailsSix-on-two double-breasted
  • Peak lapels
  • Bottle-green overcheck
  • Slanted hip pockets
  • Flat-front trousers with side adjusters

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

Prince of Wales check, close up.

The Highgate is cut from 13 oz Prince of Wales check, charcoal and bone. 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
Prince of Wales check in charcoal prince of wales, close up
The HighgateCharcoal Prince of Wales
13oz

Prince of Wales check

Origin
Worsted, West Yorkshire
Weave
Glen check with an overcheck
Lining
Bottle-green Bemberg

Charcoal and bone, with a faint bottle-green overcheck you only notice across a table.