Chest is the number on the label. Shoulder is the jacket.

Why we exist

Three things decide whether a jacket programme works, and the size chart answers none of them.

**Shoulder first.** Two people with the same chest measurement routinely need different jackets. We send fit samples in the two or three shoulder blocks that actually cover a workforce rather than asking for a spreadsheet of chest sizes, because the spreadsheet is how programmes get remade.

**Construction has to match the cleaning schedule.** A fused jacket front is glued, and heat plus moisture eventually breaks the bond — the cloth then lifts away from the interlining in ripples across the chest and lapel, and it cannot be repaired. That is not an argument against fused jackets. It is an argument for knowing which one you bought before you order two hundred and put them on a weekly dry-cleaning cycle.

**“40R” is a label, not a standard.** Two makers’ 40R are visibly different garments. An organisation that reorders from whoever is cheapest each year ends up with a team wearing four generations of nearly-matching jackets, so we hold the pattern block, the maker and the cloth reference and quote top-ups against that record.

What we actually make

Corporate and hospitality jackets built for a shift rather than a photograph. Half-canvas tailoring with a stitched chest piece that physically cannot delaminate. Unstructured and soft-shoulder jackets, which fit a wider range of builds precisely because there is less un-alterable structure to get wrong. Club and school blazers with the block, cloth, braid and badge held on file. Women’s fit jackets drafted on their own block. And made-to-measure with individual records kept for reorders.

Every one of them has the construction named on the quote — fused, half canvas or full canvas — rather than left to be inferred from the price.

What we do not make

Trousers, which are a different fit problem entirely. Shirts. Chef coats and scrub jackets. Rain jackets and outerwear. Academic dress. All different products, and there are suppliers who do nothing else.

And we will not quote a construction without naming it, or take an order for two hundred fused jackets destined for a weekly dry-cleaning cycle without telling you what will happen to them.

Why one vent is worse than two

A single centre vent is cheaper to make and it looks perfectly good in a photograph of somebody standing still.

The moment the wearer sits down, or reaches, or puts a hand in a pocket, it pulls open and drags the whole back of the jacket out of line. For anybody who spends a working day moving, that is most of the day.

Side vents cost essentially nothing extra and let the jacket move with the wearer. For hospitality and front-of-house roles we would specify them by default, and we will explain why rather than quietly charging for them.

How we price

No dollar figures on this site. Price moves with the cloth, the construction, the lining, the sizing programme and the quantity — and the biggest single lever on whether the jackets still look right in year three is a construction choice, not a cloth choice. Send the details and a real quote comes back the same day, with a lowest-price guarantee if you are already holding a cheaper one. Ask that supplier which construction they are quoting.

On branding

A woven label in the lining, a small embroidered chest badge, a contrast lining, or braid and piping on a club blazer.

For most corporate programmes the woven label is the right answer: it identifies the garment, it survives cleaning, and it does not turn a tailored jacket into a piece of branded merchandise, which is usually what makes staff willing to wear it.

Where a badge is the point — clubs, schools, societies — we hold the artwork at the size and position used, because badge size and placement drift between orders just as cloth colour does, and a year group standing together makes that very visible.

How we work

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