Week 1- Tailors

This week we were asked to research tailors. At first this seemed simple but then realised that I don't actually know of any good tailors off the top of my head. Timothy Everest was mentioned in class so I decided to look him up first. Timothy Everest is a British tailor who has an eccentric and modern flair to his work. The image above is a cycling suit that Everest produced for cyclist Tony Pereria, who now owns his own custom frame building store. At first I thought that this was just a regular tailored suit with a few minor design differences, but after researching Timothy Everest a bit more I found out that its purpose was for cycling, which I found really interesting. I wouldn't usually relate men's tailored suits with cycling, but I guess anything is possible now, and also which is what sets Timothy apart from other traditional tailors. Mick was telling us in class about how he produced a cycling suit, and how its actually really functional when riding, as the flaps button up to free your legs and there are pockets on the back for perhaps a bottle etc. Perhaps the high neck is so that the suit is secured tightly and wont flap around in the wind and block the wind from entering the jacket. The jacket has a big split up the back for extra movement for when the rider is bent over to the handle bar. It's seems like a really old fashioned concept of having beautiful tailored clothing for sport, but it's nice to see as you can appreciate it more.

I see a slight similarity between the cycling jacket and this jacket of Beau Brummel. The Beau Brummel jacket is cropped at the front and gradually gets longer towards the back. Similarly to the cycling jacket where the front is kept open and free due the ability of it to be buttoned up. Maybe the jackets used to be made in this design as they rode around on horses and didnt want their jackets to get in their way, similarily to cyclists needing that area to be kept free.