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The Journal

Notes from
the house.

On cloth, cut and the small decisions of dressing well — written the way the house speaks.

20 August 2026

What a bespoke suit costs.

Where the money goes, why the cloth decides the figure, and the three questions that expose a fake quote.

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20 August 2026

The wedding timeline.

When to commission a sherwani or bandhgala, what happens if you are late, and how NRI families make the fittings work.

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14 August 2026

Cloth for Bombay.

Most tailoring advice is written for London weather. Bombay asks different questions of a suit — and the answers are in the weight and the weave.

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10 August 2026

How to read a suit.

You cannot see a canvas or a pattern from across a room. But a hand-cut garment announces itself in five small places, once you know where to look.

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6 August 2026

The case for midnight blue.

Evening clothes are seen almost exclusively under artificial light — and under artificial light, true black is not the blackest cloth in the room.

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