#SaveTheButtonholes!

I have some very sad news. Agreman Gimp is no longer. A friend reached out to see where I was buying my gimp these days. I had stocked up a while ago so hadn’t bought any in a while. I once did a group buy of gimp for people so since I figured I would reach out to Gutermann to buy some boxes and set up a little web store in the US to distributeRead More

A New Approach to Bespoke

The tl;dr versions- scroll down for an opportunity to buy tailored clothing made in Europe from your own personal pattern at a deeply discounted price.  Oh, and help us out at the same time. It’s a widely-accepted belief that a bespoke suit must start with a unique pattern drafted from a customer’s individual measurements.  The early twentieth century saw the proliferation of “scientific” drafting systems that bespoke cutters could use to interpret the body measurements. Read More

“Robert Jeffery”

Wow.  It’s been 12 years since I started this blog. The focus has shifted over time, and I seem to have been writing less and less, mostly since life happened and I got busy (and married) and moved all over the place.  I feel the time is right to devote more time to blogging again, especially since I now have help. The first major thing to talk about is the migration from Blogspot/Blogger and Flickr,Read More