Not a size taken in, not a block adjusted — a pattern drafted from your measure and kept for life. The house has cut this way since 1982: slowly, by hand, in Worli.
A made-to-measure suit begins as someone else's block. A bespoke suit begins as paper — your shoulders, your stance, drafted before cloth is touched. The pattern stays with the house, so the second suit begins where the first one finished.
The house cuts from the great mills — Loro Piana, Zegna, Vitale Barberis Canonico, Dormeuil, Holland & Sherry — in weights chosen for Bombay as much as for the occasion. You choose at the atelier, bolt in hand.
One sitting, written down for life. Then two fittings — first in the basted shell, then when the suit is nearly itself. We fit until it is right.
Every future commission begins from a measure we already know.
A first suit is typically a few weeks from measure to finish, with two fittings in between — the house gives you a real date at the consultation, and keeps it. If a date matters, say so at the start.
Usually two after the measure: the basted fitting, where the suit is tacked together and everything can still move, and a forward fitting close to finish. A first commission earns more attention, not less.
Yes. Bring the length, and the house will tell you honestly whether it deserves to be cut. You are quoted for the making alone.
If it is your first with the house: a mid-weight navy or grey worsted, twelve months of the year, every room in the city. The second suit is where the wardrobe begins to say something.
More in The Commission — what to know before we begin.
The house will write to you to confirm the hour.