Judged standing. Lived sitting.
A jacket is seen across a room. Trousers are lived in — the desk, the flight, the walk to the car in February. Each pair drafted to your rise and seat.
A trouser is made or lost at the seat and the fork — everything below is only the leg following a line your body already drew.
What we make
One pattern, drafted once, then put to work four ways.
Odd Trousers
Worsted and sharkskin, cut to wear with a sport coat — or with no jacket at all.
Chinos
Cotton cut on your trouser block — a proper rise, a clean seat, and felled seams that survive laundering.
Denim
Your rise and your seat, in denim. It sits at the waist instead of hanging off your hips.
The Second Pair
Trousers wear out long before the coat does. A spare, cut from the same length at the same time.
Every choice, made with you.
Everything below is decided on your body at the fitting, before a seam is closed.
Set by hand,
cut from your stride
The waistband is set by hand, so it follows the hollow of your back instead of standing off it. Inlay stays in the seat and side seams — cloth left in so a pair can be let out years from now rather than replaced. Pocket bags are cut in cotton and taped along the opening, and the break is set on you at the fitting, over the shoes you'll wear them with.
Seven cloths, chosen for wear
Navy, charcoal, mid-grey sharkskin and slate carry the week; khaki, sand and olive melange take everything after it. Drawn from Loro Piana, Scabal, Dormeuil, Vitale Barberis Canonico, Drago, Reda and Dugdale — and you see your length rendered on the mannequin before anything is cut.
See the fabrics we work in →Where it lives
Where the pair earns its keep.
The long weekday
Desk at seven, dinner at eight. Nothing to tug at, nothing you're relieved to take off.
Wheels up at six
Room through the seat and thigh, so five hours in a seat doesn't show when you stand.
February on Adams
Enough length to fall over a boot, so the wind never finds your ankle.
Bring the shoes you'll wear
Start with a conversation — at our Chicago studio, at your office, or by video from anywhere.