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Leonard Logsdail Bespoke tailors · New York London 1971 · New York 1991

“True bespoke tailoring is when your garment is cut by the person who measures you.”

Leonard Logsdail Bespoke Tailors

1971

Started in London — the youngest Savile Row tailor to do so

1991

Moved the business to New York

9 E 53rd

The atelier, Manhattan

One

Paper pattern per body, cut by hand

The fitting room: a finished jacket on a stand, bolts and bunches of cloth ranged on the shelves behind.
The room where the measuring is done and the cloth is chosen.
01The paper patternDrawn in the cutter’s order

Before the cloth is touched, there is a piece of paper with one person’s shape on it.

In his own description: as he applies your measurements, your posture and body figuration are uppermost in his mind, and what he crafts is a paper pattern unique to that person’s body shape. Below is a coat block being laid out — press through it a line at a time.

Centre back · top line Depth of scye Natural waist Full length Across backChest line Shoulder slope Neck point The back
Line 1 of 8

A schematic, in the language of the trade — the names of the lines are the cutting room’s; the measurements that place them belong to one customer and stay in the shop.

02The boardShears, chalk, iron

The cloth is cut once.

A tailor bent over the cutting board with heavy shears, marking a length of striped suiting.
At the cutting board, shears down on striped suiting.
Two hands working an iron over a damp cloth on the pressing table.
Pressing — most of the shape is put in here, not sewn in.
Cut cloth pieces in navy and red laid out on the workbench beside lining and a box of trimmings.
Cut pieces and lining, waiting on the bench.
03FinishedOn the stand

Six coats, each cut to one body.

A blue windowpane jacket with a red overcheck on a tailor's stand.
Windowpane, with a red overcheck.
A charcoal chalk-stripe jacket on a stand in the fitting room.
Charcoal chalk stripe.
A pale summer jacket with a shawl-style lapel on a stand.
Pale summer cloth.
A navy jacket on a stand with a tie and pocket square, cloth samples behind.
Navy, dressed on the stand.
A dark windowpane suit on a stand, framed pictures on the wall behind.
Dark windowpane.
A checked sports jacket with a cream lapel on a stand in the shop.
Checked sports jacket.
04The line of itLondon to Manhattan

Three years out of tailoring college, and already on Savile Row.

Alongside the bespoke work there are bespoke shirts and made-to-measure, a specialty in hunting clothes, and clothing made for films, television and Broadway productions across a spread of eras.

1968Graduates from tailoring college.
1971Opens his own business in London — the youngest Savile Row tailor to do so.
1980sOpens markets across Europe and then the United States.
1991Moves the business to New York City.
NowBespoke, bespoke shirts and made-to-measure, at 9 East 53rd Street, with a team of tailors.
05The atelierMidtown Manhattan

9 East 53rd Street.

Where

Leonard Logsdail Bespoke Tailors
9 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022

Telephone

(212) 752-5030

Post

leonard.sr@leonardlogsdail.com

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