Tailored Summer Suits
The King & Allen guide to… choosing a Summer suit.
Just because the temperature is rising there is no need to lower your sartorial standards. If you're choosing a bespoke suit from King & Allen we have a wide spectrum of options that ensure that despite the heat you will look and feel totally cool – in both senses of the word!
And with hundreds of styles to choose from you can now look and feel your best whether it's on the sweltering commute to work or a wedding on a hot summer's day.
Below are my top 5 tips for the perfect summer suit…
The perfect summer suit – tip 1: Choose the right cloth
We offer a variety of special 'cool wools'. These cloths have been specifically woven in a way that they breathe much better than normal worsteds, but still hang beautifully, despite being under 9oz in weight. Usually lightweight summer suits will crease over the course of a hot day but these cloths will look as crisp at the end of a hard day at the office/wedding as they did when you first put them on.
Expect to pay: £499-£999 for the completed bespoke suit..
The perfect summer suit – tip 2: choose the right lining
We offer linings that are made from entirely natural fibres (very rare in the suit world). Natural fibres breathe much better than man-made, keeping you cool.
Expect to pay: no extra charge.
The perfect summer suit – tip 3: wear a waistcoat
Having a waistcoat as part of your summer suit enables you to take the jacket off and still look smart. Because it's bespoke it is still fitted and because the lining on the back is natural you'll barely know you're wearing it.
Expect to pay: £100-£250 for the completed bespoke waistcoat.
The perfect summer suit – tip 4: opt for our new 'Dragonfly' lining
So called because of its super-lightweight structure, and the wing-like shape it creates inside the jacket, the 'Dragonfly' lining is the ultimate summer suit option. The internal structure of the jacket is especially designed to require as little lining as possible whilst maintaining its shape, and is an ingenious way of designing a suit that appears on the outside like a regular suit but is actually as light as a feather… and more breathable than anything you've ever worn.
Expect to pay: no extra charge.
The perfect summer suit – tip 5: combine it with a Sea Island cotton shirt.
Traditionally the reserve of the very expensive shirt tailors on Jermyn Street, King & Allen are proud to offer our customers the finest shirt cloth in the world – Sea Island Cotton. A combination of the superb quality of the cotton itself (from the Caribbean) and the fine spinning of a super high twist yarn, no shirt cloth feels this luxurious.
King & Allen price: £130. Elsewhere: £400+.
How does it work?
Watch this short introduction to the King & Allen bespoke tailoring service by Reuters.