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    WEAVING STRAW INTO GOLD

    Apr 05, 2019 4 minutes
    by tom chamberlin
    photography kim lang

    Bespoke is an addictive habit, but the degree to which one’s anticipation of the final result ebbs and flows is down to the level of trust between you and your tailor. Without trust, the process is achingly nerve-racking, for you know you might have wasted your time and dented your bank account.

    It must be very difficult to have the first idea as to where to go and whom to commission. With all the options available to you — the styles from which you can pick and choose between houses, as well as the houses’ microcosms, vis-a-vis their different cutters — it is damn

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