Lounge coat, two views. Seam allowance included.

Description on Envelope

I am a bespoke tailor with 19 years at the bench, the last 8 running my own workroom off Marylebone Lane. I cut roughly 60 full commissions a year, coats, suits and the occasional opera cape, and I keep every client's paper pattern on file, currently 1,140 of them. My basted fittings run long because I would rather re-pin a shoulder three times than press a wrong one once.

A Coat cutting

B Trouser making

C Fittings & alterations

D Workroom management

Postluna@example.com

Telephone+44 20 555 0175

WorkroomMarylebone, London W1

Booklovegood-bespoke.example.com

Pattern Pieces · Cut as Marked

PIECE 1 · MAIN BODY · CUT 1 ON FOLD

Proprietor & Head Cutter

Lovegood Bespoke · Marylebone, London

2018–Present

GrainLine

Built a two-tailor, one-apprentice workroom to 62 commissions a year, with 71% of new clients arriving by referral.
Hold a 4-week delivery standard for a first suit across 3 fittings; missed it twice in 8 years, both times in wedding season.
Introduced a cloth ledger that cut leftover stock write-offs from about £4,200 to under £900 a year.

NOTE: match notches at shoulder seam. Ease fullness over client's posture, do not stretch.

PIECE 2 · SLEEVE · CUT 2

Senior Coat Maker

Hartley & Crane, Merchant Tailors · Mayfair, London

2012–2018

GrainLine

Made 40 to 45 fully hand-padded coats a year for a book of about 130 standing clients.
Cut the house's forward-fitting time by a third after redrafting the standard sleeve block in 2015.
Trained 4 apprentices through their first canvassed coat; all 4 are still in the trade.

NOTE: set sleeve with 2 rows of ease stitching. Crown must sit clean at first baste.

PIECE 3 · FACING · CUT 2 IN LINING

Trouser Maker, then Undercutter

Bexfield Row Tailoring · Leeds

2007–2012

GrainLine

Sewed roughly 300 pairs of bespoke trousers a year at peak, alongside a weekly alterations bench of 25 to 30 garments.
Promoted to undercutter in 2010; drafted from measures for around 90 clients under the head cutter's chalk.

NOTE: reinforce fork seam. Press creases before waistband is closed, never after.

Cutting Layout · Training

Fold line · Selvages together · 54 in. cloth

LAY 1 · 2005–2007

Apprenticeship, Bespoke Tailoring

Bexfield Row Tailoring, Leeds. Indentured 2 years; passed out on a full canvassed coat.

LAY 2 · 2003–2005

Diploma, Tailoring & Garment Technology

Northgate College of Clothing Trades, Leeds. Distinction in pattern drafting.

LAY 3 · 2016

Structural Tailoring Masterclass

Guild of Cloth Workers, London. 6-week evening course on canvas and shoulder work.

LAY 4 · ONGOING

Guild of Cloth Workers, Member

Admitted 2019. Judge for the apprentice coat prize since 2023.

Measurement Chart · Skills

Measure	Taken At	Reading
Pattern drafting from measures	CHEST · 40 IN	Full blocks for coat, trouser, waistcoat; posture and figuration adjustments by eye and rule.
Hand work	WAIST · 34 IN	Pad stitching, hand-set collars and sleeves, milanese buttonholes at about 45 minutes each.
Cloth knowledge	SEAT · 42 IN	Worsted, flannel, tweed, mohair blends; shrinkage testing and sponging before first cut.
Fittings	SLEEVE · 25 IN	Baste, forward and fin fittings; reading a client's stance without making them stand to attention.
Workroom running	RISE · 11 IN	Scheduling 3 makers across 60+ live orders; costing, cloth buying, apprentice supervision.

PRINTED IN LONDON · PATTERN N.175 ALL SEAM ALLOWANCES 5/8 IN. UNLESS MARKED REFERENCES FOLDED INSIDE, ON REQUEST