J. Press SS24
11 hours ago
THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins". - And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."
I wonder what tailor the young prince would eventually choose?
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be a tradition for each new prince to choose a different one from his father. John Kent for Prince Philip, A&S (or is it T&A nowdays?) for Prince Charles. Who for Prince William?
They probably both have one but I don't know who; Maybe Thomas Mahon. Edward VII liked Henry Poole; George V went to Davies & Son and so did Edward VIII (the Dook) but since then there has not been much continuity except that Gieves & Hawkes feature for some uniforms.
ReplyDeleteBenson & Clegg claim George VI as a customer ("Founded in 1937 Benson & Clegg soon established itself as a top quality bespoke tailors and was granted a Royal Warrant to King George VI in 1944"). ER VII also went to Meyer & Mortimer, and probably others as well. Prince Philip only went to John Kent after Ted Watson (Hawes & Curtis, for whom JK worked at the time) retired.
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Thanks, FiS: Hawes & Curtis, although twentieth century newboys on the block, were big hitters, counting as customers, amongst many others: Jack Buchanan; Ed. VIII; Noel Coward; Cary Grant, and Robert Donat. They do not seem to make much of their history but they have not kept uo the tailoring side. It is a great shame that their main brand-name business, these days, is 'on-cost' RTW shirts and ties but, then, I suppose that they have managed to survive as a business.
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