Samhober.com (custom ties) has quite a few and frees you from the obligation of visiting a store.

Regards,

Steven

Last edited by stylestudent (2007-11-29 13:19:14)

I had Sam Hober make up some for me: excellent work and nice selection. Andover shop is difficult to deal with by mail or phone, they won't send you photos or put much effort into it by phone, they want you to pay by credit card tell them what you want, and they send you what they think you want, subject to return of course.

J Press' Atkinson's ties seem to be off to me, less pleasing colors, designs, just off.

In London, Selfridges has a selection but you have to open some drawers to find them, the prices are all over the place with some older inventory, which is OK with me.

The product is terrific, especially for travel, the knot holds, they are rather impervious to stretching, clean up nicely, and the advantage of Sam Hober is you can specify width and length. I find my RTW versions differ from retailer to retailer. Apparantly when you order from Atkinson you have a lot of options. With Sam he's got the raw cloth and yo decide what you want. Very reasonably priced as well. I have played with having a scarf made, with one side Atkinson's the other wool or cashmere. Sam, was game, I think.

Is Hober still operating in the US?  I caught his post on styleforum, where he posted some of his new designs for the month, and I couldn't tell if he was on extended holiday, or if he'd moved his operation overseas?  You've bought form his Cantab?  His Macclesfield designs certainly seem to be pretty tasteful to my eye -- but I don't know the "genre" of that tie very well.