On, Off Savile Row, A tailor's story

If you live in the London
square mile, care about the way you look and can afford to spend a few thousand
quid on clothing? Then a visit to 32 Elder Street
Spitalfield would be time and effort well invested. Why Spitalfield? It's the
headquarters of Timothy Everest Bespoke, an expert Savile Row Tailor, off
Savile Row. Why not on Savile Row? Why not be different? His workhouse from top
to bottom is a hive of activity as all component parts of suiting are precisely
engineered in readiness for the finished product. Take a tour and you will see
where every penny of your spend goes. Nothing is left to guess; upon departure
you'll have learned the constructs of your £3,000 suit and happily pay the
price.

32 Elder Street Spitalfield, once the home of Jewish artist
Mark Gertler, member of the Bloomsbury Group and painter of the famous
Modernist work, The Merry-Go-Round (1916)   its
resident long gone. Timothy an artist of a different discipline stepped in,
oversaw refurbishments leaving no detail to chance, attention is even given to
the clips that attach electrical wires to wall, their origin and history
documented.  Now in complete
transformation, some of the finest suiting in London
is despatched. There's a thread of sincerity in each garment produced by
Timothy, from finest suits to simple neckties.

If you can't afford to spend £3,000 on clothing, Marks and Spencers
have Timothy Everest "Autograph" range of suits, they're made from
100% pure new wool and cost less than £300. You will also find Autograph shirts
and ties to match, one stop and you'll walk away with a set of high quality
clothing for less than £1,000.

Finally: Timothy Everest Premier
Collection of Silk Ties is on display at selected retailers. Set against an
autumn landscape, they celebrate a return to geometric patterns, symmetry the
order of the day. Nothing is lost as small patterns pronounced by light colours
and arrangement against a backdrop of richly textured burgundy, brown and midnight blue. There's value in conservative
styling, not being a novelty it doesn't wear off, so as fashion completes many
cycles, in years to come won't look out of place. And coordinating becomes a
welcome task. Select wisely. Who is Timothy Everest? "Find out"

Meanwhile Vivienne Westwood edges closer to Savile Row, the
most likely candidate should she ever take up residence to blow a wind of
radical change on the Row not seen since Richard James introduced Saturday
Trading in 1992.

Closing anecdotes: Spitalfields was known for its music
halls, which grew out of music rooms at the back of pubs. Charlie Chaplin made
his first stage appearance in the now demolished Royal
Cambridge Music Hall
in Commercial Street. The
latest trend is for galleries to spring up in cafes and bars, style evolves.

1860, the Prince of Wales ordered a short smoking jacket to
wear at informal dinner parties at Sandringham from his friend, the tailor,
Henry Poole. It was the first dinner jacket on record and was cut in midnight blue cloth. In 1886, a Mr James Potter
of Tuxedo Park, New York,
was a houseguest at Sandringham. He consequently ordered
a similar dinner jacket to Bertie's from Henry Poole & Co. It was this
dinner jacket that Mr Potter wore at the Tuxedo Park Club inspiring numerous
copies that fellow members wore as informal uniform for stag dinners. Thus the
Tuxedo was born at Henry Poole & Co. It took only eight years for an
accidental style to cross the Atlantic Ocean and soon
became an American institution "a movable style"

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