Why I Make Bespoke Custom Suits.

I still remember the first time I got to see and feel what a truly great tailored suit looked like.

I was a junior in high school and it was at a second hand boutique called Best for Less in Whittier Ca. The garment was a used super 100’s Ermenigildo Zegna, navy pinstripe suit. Growing up in Hacienda Heights Ca. Zegna suits weren’t a common thing you’d see. The nicest clothes at the local mall was maybe Ralph Lauren inside The Broadway department store. Id only read about the likes of Zegna and seen pictures in magazines but now here it was…an actual Zegna suit in my hands. The fabric felt soft and supple. The construction- at the time, Zegna favored heavily canvased and padded suits- was substantial. It wasn’t my size but I still slipped it on anyways. It felt different. It felt amazing.

Looking back now, this was the day I fell in love with great tailoring.

A Better Way to Buy a Bespoke Custom Suit.

The most important thing I wanted to accomplish with The Cutting Room was to recreate the truest spirit of bespoke tailoring. During my apprenticeship, my master tailor would talk about what being a bespoke tailor means. He would tell us the story of one of his first clients: A young man graduating university and as a gift the young mans father purchased for him his first tailor made bespoke suit. This was the suit he wore as he interviewed for his first job. The suit he wore on the first day of said new job. As the years went by the young man purchased many more tailored garments. Most were day in-day out suits but some meant much more. The jet black tuxedo he wore to his wedding. The jewel toned true blue suit for his sons baptism. A classic glen plaid for the day he was promoted as a partner to his law firm. The white dinner jacket he would eventually wear as he walked his daughter down the aisle.

The story stuck with me.

Today there is no shortage of places to buy a custom suit. Online, clothiers, stores, and so on. There are even MLMs selling custom suits door to door like Tupperware.

What is rare is a passion for craft, an understanding of fit, a belief that bespoke design is meant to be individual and above all that the clothing we make means much more.   

Bespoke tailoring is a personal experience. The clothing I build for my clients – whether they buy one suit or one hundred – can be part of their life story. That is a privilege that I want to earn.