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Being a well-dressed woman or gentleman is more than just having a great shirt and well tailored suits – it’s about personal style. While we don’t claim to be the world’s authority on style and class, we offer you a few ideas here that we hope will be interesting and useful for you.

And remember that 93% of all communciation is actually nonverbal – that means that most of what people think of you doesn’t come from what you say, but how you present yourself. And a big part of that is, of course, the clothes that you wear. Choosing clothes that compliment your style will tend to complement your words, amplify your impact and make you more more persuasive, charismatic and powerful. Your clothes – like your car and the way that you speak – make a big difference.

Your impression is our business… We believe that top quality clothing maketh the man (and woman).

What’s the big deal about custom tailoring? Custom tailored clothing are far superior to off-the-rack garments – when you think about it, you know it already. Bill Clinton and Prince William don’t shop at a store – they have their clothes made for them. The trouble has been that only those gentlemen willing to pay US$300 per shirt and US$5000 per suit have been able to afford to enter that league.

Here are some of our great new fabric styles and design choices:

	Egyptian cotton in light blue herringbone		Egyptian cotton in white business checks
	Italian cotton with blue stripes on white		Italian cotton with wide white herringbones

These fabrics are magnificent, and equal to the most beautiful fabrics available – now totally to your size and style from Shirts and Suits.com

You can see here a range of the different customisation options available, or just login and start creating straight away…

Coming up to three weeks in Shanghai after spending three weeks in London before that, I am even more amazed at the sort of things that people get away with wearing!

While the top fashion labels correctly point out that they do business suits – and very good quality ones at that – they simply won’t fit you! Speaking with my friends at the Dormeuil store in Shanghai just last night, they can make me a suit for RMB43,000 (about AU$7,000, though less than half the price of the RMB100,000 Zegna), and I’m sure that it will be a very nice suit. But I know that our suits can match them in near every regard… and you will too.

Current fashion trends as I see them:

Suits

• Two-button single breasted suits are very much the current style, and probably will be and increasingly for the next two years. These, of course, show more of your tie and shirt front.
• Double-breasted suits are likely to be on their way back in vogue, possibly even with all three buttons working.
• Single-button single breasted suits are likely to be increasingly acceptable. They are available for the very fashionable already, though will become more mainstream in the coming months, especially the notched lapel variant. I expect that the peaked lapel will remain the domain of the very fashionable – well away from the bulk of my lawyer friends.
• Pickstitching and working buttons are becoming standard on the top quality suits; leaving the bottom button undone is particularly popular to ‘show’ the world that it does work – like Zegna.
• Angled pockets are great – with or without the ticket pocket. Personally, I like it, but many don’t. Some like to tuck their flap inside their pocket – that works too, though is a little more stylish than standard at the moment.

Shirts

• French cuffs – square, rounded and bevelled – are very much in demand.
• As cuff links remain one of the few pieces of jewellery a gentleman is inclined to wear, these are becoming more desirable and popular.

Fast shirts and bevelled French cuffs Finally our ‘Fast’ range is back online again. Starting with ‘Fast Shirts’, you will see a range of our most popular and personal favourite styles easily accessed from the fabric selection page of our ordering system. This lets you get a great style of shirt even faster than before.

Today we added ‘Palazzi or bevelled French cuffs’ to our extensive range of shirt cuff options. These are French cuffs with the last centimetre showing of the corner cut off, making it a very visible style feature. Of course, you could always have asked us to make them, but now they are outlined as a specific option.

Personally, I would expect these to be ahead of the most stylish for about the next year, and at their peak of popularity for the following two years… plenty of time to get great value from your next bevelled French cuff shirt – create your’s today!

One of the great things about using us as your tailor is that we can create anything you can imagine…