Henry Herbert - the Scootering Savile Row Tailoring Service.
Silvio & Babarella…they join the Henry Herbert fleet today to serve our Savile Row by Scooter Service. Serving up traditional and authentic English tailoring, our Vespa’s can meet you around the clock – wherever and whenever is good for you. Ciao bella!
Well, that’s a first for a Henry Herbert suit. A request for epaulettes on a customer’s suit – probably last seen in the 1970′s. They are fastened to the shoulder by a strap or “passant“, a small strap parallel to the shoulder seam and the button near the collar. This particular customer may prove to be a trend forecaster…who would have thought double breasted suits would make a comeback afterall?
Henry Herbert Tailors offer a bespoke shirt making service with Liberty prints. The service is simple and quick.
1. Buy your fabric from Liberty, either online or from the world famous Liberty store on Regent Street. You will need to buy two metres of fabric.
2. Send the fabric to Henry Herbert Tailors, quoting your collar size. The address is Henry Herbert Tailors, 156-158 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8ED. Please include your full name, address and contact email & telephone number.
3. As soon as we receive the fabric, a Henry Herbert tailor will be in touch to confirm your order. Each shirt is £159 which includes all tailoring and delivery charges. Payment will be taken upon confirmation of order with the Henry Herbert tailor.
4. You will receive your Liberty print shirt three weeks later by special courier service.
5. That’s it! To learn more about Henry Herbert Tailors just visit our About page or please feel free to contact us.
An electric lime green lightweight cotton from Harrisons of Edinburgh and made by Henry Herbert Tailors – trying to bring some colour to this very grey English summer!
You can’t drink Patio diet cola anymore and you probably shouldn’t smoke in your office, but you can still live the Mad Men lifestyle with a mad men suit. Henry Herbert Tailors, as bespoke suit makers, are able to re-create the craft and style of the Don Draper mad men suit, made from gray sharkskin fabric, two-button jacket with narrow lapels, diagonal pockets and side vents. Hungry to find out more? Watch Henry Herbert’s video on what makes the classic Mad Men suit below. To make your Mad Men suit with a Henry Herbert Tailor, simply book an appointment.
I have mentioned this fascinating story before, but it is so gripping, it is worth talking about it again! SAPE stands for “Societe des Ambianceurs et Personnes Elegantes” which translates as the “society of atmosphere setters and elegant people“. Its members put fashion above all the other issues a developing country like Congo is facing right now.
The origins of La SAPE can be traced back to when the first French colonists arrived. They brought with them their famous fashion sense and inspired the locals who regarded the white man as far more elegant and educated than they were. In 1922 Andre Bernard Matsoua was the first local who traveled to Paris and came back dressed as a true French gentleman.
Since then, members of “La Societe des Ambianceurs et Personnes Elegantes” have been trying to get their hands on the newest, most expensive pieces of designer clothes that appear in Europe. There are some luxury shops in Brazzaville and Kinshasa, but most “sapeurs” prefer to get them directly from the Old Continent. This is actually every member’s dream, to travel to Paris and get their hands on killer wardrobes at the source.
Sapeurs spend thousands of dollars on suits, shirts, shoes and accessories, but this doesn’t mean they’re rich. In a country where the average salary is somewhere around $300/month, most of these guys don’t even have a job. Most of them lend their clothes for a living (renting a designer suit costs about $25/day), while those who travel to Europe bring the latest designer labels and sell them for a small profit.
All members of La SAPE have unique styles and crazy names: ‘Parfait le Bodeur‘, ‘Serge le Temoin de Playboy‘, ‘Baleine Sarkozy‘ or ‘Christian Dior‘. They live for fashion and feed off the attention they get when parading on the dusty streets of Brazzaville. The photos below are part of Francesco Giusti‘s La SAPE Collection, which recently won him an award for photography. They really do capture the charm of these special sapeurs. There is a beauitfully presenetd musical photo montage which tells the story too.
Henry Herbert Tailors now offer an online service for getting your tailored shirts. With just a few clicks, you can now have your shirt made from the comfort of your aeroplane seat, boardroom laptop……or wherever you may be. Check out our new online shirt service.
Breezing past in a blue suit, this young gentleman wore a bespoke blue suit by Henry Herbert Tailors for his wedding day. The suit sits sharply on top of the single breasted waistcoat we made for him and looks glorious with his crisp white shirt.
A bespoke Henry Herbert Tailors cashmere overcoat that we made for a gentleman in London. The cashmere cloth – made in England – is extremely soft and durable and is complemented by a stunning lining from Dugdales Brothers in Huddersfield.
The most extraordinarily fabric yet that Henry Herbert has been involved with! At first glance, it looks like a normal pin stripe suit fabric, the epitome of the classic, English City suit. But look twice and you will actually find the pin stripe is not a stripe at all – it is the customer’s initials woven so finely, in perfectly symmetrical lines, that they appear as the classic English pin stripe. An extraordinarily personal detail for the customer.
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Henry Herbert Tailors are bespoke shirt and suit makers; we can meet you around the clock with our Savile Row by Scooter service, or you can come and meet us.
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We scooter to you with all of our tools and over 2000 shirt and suit fabrics... |
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...to measure you and guide you through the enormous variety of bespoke suit and shirt styles... |
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...to then hand make for you and then fit you your perfectly fitting tailored suit and shirts... |
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...and then hand deliver your very own bespoke suits and bespoke shirts. |
