Reston Tailoring
Reston Tailoring is a journal about clothes that are made rather than bought. We write about construction and cloth, about the difference a quarter of an inch makes across a shoulder, and about why a trade that should have disappeared fifty years ago is quietly busier than it has been in decades.
There is no shopping list here and nothing to buy. What there is, is the reasoning behind the decisions - which cloth for which season, what a canvas actually does, when an alteration is worth paying for and when the garment is beyond help. Most of it applies whether you spend four hundred pounds or four thousand.
Having a Suit Made Abroad
Why Every Man Needs a Tailor
The History of Savile Row
Capsule Wardrobes That Actually Work
The Graphic Tee Goes Smart-Casual
Fabric Guide: What to Wear and When
Alterations That Transform Off-the-Rack
How Fashion Weeks Shape What We Wear
The Death of the Dress Code
Three ways in
Craft is the making: canvases, cloth weights, fittings, and the parts of a garment nobody sees. If you have ever wondered why two jackets at the same price fit so differently, the answer is almost always in here.
Style is the wearing: what goes with what, how much shirt cuff should show, whether a suit jacket can survive on its own. Practical rather than fashionable, and short on rules that exist only to be broken.
Culture is everything around it: Savile Row, the collapse of the dress code, the slow drift from runway to high street. Useful context for why the clothes in the shops look the way they do.
New pieces go up every few weeks. Nothing is sponsored and nothing is written to a brief.