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What is a DAKS waistband?

What is a DAKS waistband?

In the days before skinny jeans and synthetic materials, when it was fashionable to wear your trousers around your waist not half way down your legs, men relied on braces...

What is a DAKS waistband?

In the days before skinny jeans and synthetic materials, when it was fashionable to wear your trousers around your waist not half way down your legs, men relied on braces...

Tharangini

Tharangini

Each length of cloth is washed, pressed and secured on the long printing tables. Complicated designs may sometimes be marked out using string to keep the lines straight but the expert...

Tharangini

Each length of cloth is washed, pressed and secured on the long printing tables. Complicated designs may sometimes be marked out using string to keep the lines straight but the expert...

A Brief History: Turn Ups

A Brief History: Turn Ups

The origin of the Turn-Up is attributed to Edward VII (Prince of Wales). At a time when most roads were really just paths and people still travelled by horse, many...

A Brief History: Turn Ups

The origin of the Turn-Up is attributed to Edward VII (Prince of Wales). At a time when most roads were really just paths and people still travelled by horse, many...

Kipper and Cod - Tailoring Slang Unpacked

Kipper and Cod - Tailoring Slang Unpacked

Kipper : A "Lady" tailor or "tailoress". So called because back in the day, as women began to infiltrate Savile Row, they would go around in pairs in order to avoid being...

Kipper and Cod - Tailoring Slang Unpacked

Kipper : A "Lady" tailor or "tailoress". So called because back in the day, as women began to infiltrate Savile Row, they would go around in pairs in order to avoid being...