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Singular shops, makers and British institutions worth travelling for. Unique gifts for others, and perfect gifts to yourself.
The street bespoke tailoring is named after, where a suit still takes three fittings and about fifty hours of hand work.
Tailoring & shirtsTrading before 1900A street or arcade
Also in Shopping.
Tailors began moving in around 1800, drawn by the aristocratic houses going up on the Burlington estate, and the trade never left. The word bespoke comes from the cloth being spoken for by a customer, and on this street it still means a pattern cut for one person, by hand, on the premises - which is what separates it from made-to-measure everywhere else.
Walk it for the shopfronts and the basements: many of the cutting rooms are below pavement level with windows onto the street, so you can watch the work being done. Numbers 1, 11, 15 and 32 are the ones to look for.
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