A sherwani is not tailoring near a wedding — it is the wedding, worn. The house cuts it to be remembered.
A sherwani stands or falls on what it is built on — canvas, collar, the long clean line from shoulder to knee. The house cuts it like the formal coat it is: structured underneath, serene on the surface, to your measure alone.
Raw silks and brocades that hold their structure under a long ceremony, ivories that photograph as ivory, embroidery only where it earns its place — from the Indian looms the mills don't list, chosen bolt in hand.
Measured once, written down for life. Fitted standing and seated, arms raised — worn for hours, it must move as if it were not structured at all.
Tell us the date; the fittings are planned backwards from it.
Two to three months is comfortable; less is often possible. Bring the dates and the house will answer honestly. The Wedding plans the whole wardrobe.
The sherwani for the ceremony itself; the bandhgala for the evenings around it. A wedding week usually carries both, cut to one measure.
Yes — fathers, brothers, the groom's men, each measured in his own sitting, the party planned as one so the groom reads as the groom.
Bring the palette, or the bride's side. Cloth is chosen bolt in hand against the light it will be seen in — ivories especially.
More in The Commission — what to know before we begin.
The house will write to you to confirm the hour.