A hand tailored dinner suit that’s made to fit you perfectly is guaranteed to make you look and feel like a million dollars. The obvious choice for any important evening event, knowing you have your own bespoke suit waiting in your wardrobe is a great confidence booster and worthwhile long-term investment.
Here at Norton & Townsend we make superb quality bespoke dinner suits in Edinburgh. We have a team of highly experienced travelling tailors who’ll visit you at your home or office, making the process of choosing and ordering a bespoke suit as fuss free as possible.
For those who haven’t worn a bespoke suit before, it can be hard to appreciate the perfect fit and sense of style which can only be achieved when a garment is tailored to match your exact measurements. Unlike off-the-peg dinner suits, even the most expensive ones, a made to measure bespoke suit is designed to fit your body shape, whilst complimenting your posture and gait.
As makers of bespoke dinner suits in Edinburgh, here at Norton & Townsend our travelling tailors are highly skilled and have many years of experience in creating individually tailored, made to measure garments.
The bespoke tailoring process begins with a one-to-one appointment with your tailor who will take numerous measurements. These measurements are then used to create pattern pieces from card: these pieces are unique to you and can be used again and again to make additional garments, provided your measurements don’t alter too much!
Before any tailoring can take place, though, your tailor will talk you through the process of choosing cloth, lining and trim for your dinner suit. The majority of dinner suits are black, but there are no hard and fast rules on this and brighter colours for jackets are increasingly making an appearance. We offer our clients a huge choice of superb quality fabrics and linings and your tailor will help you choose the best fabric to suit your style of garment.
So, once your measurements have been taken, you’ve chosen a suit style and fabrics, and your card pattern has been created, your tailor will draw around the pieces onto the cloth. Then, once the pattern cutting process is complete, the individual pieces will be ‘basted’ together. This simply means that temporary stitching is used at this stage, making it easier for your tailor to make alterations to the fit and drape of the garment.
Depending the cloth you’ve chosen for your suit, your tailor will insert either a full canvas or half canvas into the front of the jacket. Canvasses are made from stiffer fabric and are invisible inside the suit once the tailoring process is complete. The canvas is simply there to provide structure and plays a vital role in the finished look, feel and durability of the jacket. It’s worth noting that there’s a common misconception that a full canvas is required in all bespoke suits. This isn’t the case though and your tailor will decide which type of canvas to use only once you’ve selected your suit fabric.
It takes around six to eight weeks to create a bespoke dinner suit suit and once yours is almost ready, we’ll arrange a final fitting appointment. If any alternations are required we’ll carry these out as quickly as possible and won’t take final payment until your suit is 100% perfect.
There really is no substitute for the perfect fit and sense of style you get with a hand tailored suit. To find out more about our tailoring services for bespoke dinner suits in Edinburgh, please get in touch via our contact page.
