by Henry Herbert on August 23, 2010
Henry Herbert was extremely privileged to make the above suit: privileged on two counts in fact. The first because the suit was for the wedding of Ray Goold (above) a wonderful and talented musician. Ray plays with the Solent City Jazzmen in Southampton. The second because Ray asked for an extremely rare, but special, fabric for his suit – Seersucker. We choose a seersucker fabric from Holland & Sherry. Unfortunately the photograph may not do it justice looking at it on a computer, as seersucker fabric is woven in such a way that it gives a glorious looking wrinkled appearance in places and is great either as as suitor stand alone trousers or jacket.
by Henry Herbert on April 26, 2010
I thought long and hard about posting this photograph, as I don’t want to deter any current or new customers…believe it or not there is a purpose to this disorganised looking array of fabrics! It is a line of cloths waiting to be cut for a variety of suits and trousers that we have been asked to make. The customer, in each case, will have personally chosen the cloth and these are the ‘cut lengths’ which have arrived from the mill. We only buy English and Scottish made cloths (believe it or not some mills still exist in the UK!) , as we can be sure of their integrity. In this photograph, they are all waiting to start their lives to be cut for the first baste fitting. As you can see, each fabric is different and illustrates the varietyof styles that we cater for. The slightly looking orange fabric to the left is in fact a glorious fabric called Seersucker and is for a pair of trousers we have been asked to make…a close up of the fabric is in the second photograph. I hope it does it justice, as seersucker is a lovely fabric to wear, albeit extremely different to cut and tailor.
