How kosher is this?
There used to be some sort of Jermyn Street 'association' too - Just a marketing ploy.
Is there more to the SRBA than that?

Just curious...

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Marc has it about right, this is a cheerleading society. I think they will also use it as a chance to try and freeze out the smaller ex-Savile Row independents, they probably looking at this as business that should have gone to the Row and want to claw it back.

I wait with interest to see how they get around the maker location problem now that Davies and Kilgour are both going down the China route. I don't share Marc's aversion to outworkers provided there is consistency, I want to know that I get the same outworker every time, and that there is real quality control. At the moment I don't believe the consistency is there for true repeatability (hmm, maybe I do share Marc's aversion).

It will be interesting to see what their construction standards are. They are going to have to do a lot better that saying a suit must take at least 60 hours to make over six to eight weeks.  And why six to eight weeks, does a suit need to be hung and aged like game? Do a firm lose it's certification (can you lose certification if you pay your dues?) if you hand over the goods to the customer to quickly?

Thanks Marc & Passingtime.
More and more everytime I hear of organisations like this I smell a rat. It seems that everything has to be 'spun' in some way now before it's presented to the world at large.
I find it puts me off.

I am starting to feel a whole lot better about my little old Italian tailor who works out of his basement. My real dread is his age. What am I going to do when he retires?

sites working

http://www.savilerowbespoke.com/

www.ozwaldboateng.co.uk

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Is Evisu a tailor? I didn't know this. I should read more!

"Savile Row has iconic status for well dressed men. Sited superbly in gentleman's London, within a short walk of the great clubs of St James's, the shirtmakers of Jermyn Street, the hatters and the bespoke shoe makers, the wonderful restaurants, hotels and shops of the West End, and with Old Bond Street just around the corner, the Row has maintained its reputation for over two centuries"

SRBA, you're certainly not placing yourselves in a favorable light with your close affiliation with "the shirtmakers of Jermyn Street," who, for the most part, um, what's the word, oh, yes, SUCK!

"Training
firms must actively participate in a Savile Row training scheme, either an in-house scheme or one with a partner institution.
apprenticeships to be at least 5 years long for a coat-maker and 3 for a trouser-maker"

SRBA: Sirs, might I suggest that your esteemed member, Richard Anderson, avail himself of remedial training on the proper making of trousers?  The trousers the dear chap made for me were cut too short (with inadequate material to lengthen them) and too narrow in the waist, spreading the pleats wide open.  This does little to burnish the fine Savile Row image.