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Here's Himel in one of his recent Instagram posts talking about patterns. He explains :
"Most of the companies just copy old clothing. They lost the ability to actually tailor, they just use software to create the patterns.
We do it the very old fashion way with the pen and paper and cutting the pieces and sewing them and working out how it best fits and then expending that across the range.
No one does that, tailors in London England do it that's it."
To be clear, he doesn't use the word 'bespoke' in this particular video. (But he did use it in several other posts)
What he explained here is how they do their pattern making / grading and that they do it by hand (not using software).
Maybe he thinks creating patterns by hand = bespoke? I don't know, but I do know that he's certainly not the only one apart from 'tailors on London' to do it like that. Theodoros is currently creating a new pattern for my next jacket which will be a one-off, using pen and paper, sewing the pieces together into test jackets. I'm sure there's many other jacket makers who do it like that too.
"Most of the companies just copy old clothing. They lost the ability to actually tailor, they just use software to create the patterns.
We do it the very old fashion way with the pen and paper and cutting the pieces and sewing them and working out how it best fits and then expending that across the range.
No one does that, tailors in London England do it that's it."
To be clear, he doesn't use the word 'bespoke' in this particular video. (But he did use it in several other posts)
What he explained here is how they do their pattern making / grading and that they do it by hand (not using software).
Maybe he thinks creating patterns by hand = bespoke? I don't know, but I do know that he's certainly not the only one apart from 'tailors on London' to do it like that. Theodoros is currently creating a new pattern for my next jacket which will be a one-off, using pen and paper, sewing the pieces together into test jackets. I'm sure there's many other jacket makers who do it like that too.