Your weight changes
Within about 4 kg we can re-cut. Beyond that the pattern needs redrafting, and we will tell you rather than let out a seam that should not be let out.
Week 0
The measure
An hour in the shop. Twenty-two measurements, posture noted, and an honest conversation about what you already wear and what you never wear. You leave without committing to anything.
Week 1
Cutting the pattern
Your own paper pattern is drafted by hand and kept in the workshop under your name. Every later commission starts from it, adjusted.
Week 4
First fitting — the baste
The garment is tacked together in white thread, with one sleeve. It will look alarming. This is where balance, blade and shoulder are corrected on your body rather than on paper.
Week 7
Second fitting
Now it looks like a jacket. Sleeves on, collar set, pockets marked. Fine adjustments to waist suppression and length — this is the fitting clients remember.
Week 10
Third fitting
Finishing details: buttons, cuff, trouser break over your own shoes. Usually twenty minutes.
Week 12
Collection
Pressed, bagged, and a note in the file of what we would change next time. Alterations for the first year are included.
The cloth is cut once. Everything before that is reversible; nothing after it is.