My marvelous suit of gold!

Readers of  English Cut (and anyone who has met me) may remember many years ago a post about my Scabal Super 150s with 22ct gold cloth that Tom very kindly bought for me to make a suit. However as most of you also know I never quite got to wear my suit of gold. Well, I have kept the cloth safely tucked under my bed waiting for that day to arrive and today is the day !

My knights in shining armour came in the form of the chaps at Stowers Bespoke. . I went in to be measured up by Ray, Claire and Brian, and am documenting this exciting (for me anyway) adventure on their blog. We are going to make a toile first in cheap fabric, this is like a forward fitting but a little bit rougher, it allows us to really fit it around my body so that we can get the shape absolutely perfect before cutting the expensive cloth.

To see the progress of my golden suit don’t forget to keep checking here.

Also I’d like to say thank you to everyone who snapped up my samples, everything went, which has allowed me to reclaim some space so it is much appreciated.