A Blurry Forward Fitting

Well to his dismay your fearless reporter forgot to charge his camera battery before his fitting with Peter Harvey of Fallan & Harvey last week. The photos in this essay are from an iPhone. They don't show what they should but they are hopefully better than nothing.


I missed Peter when I was in London last July so this was the first chance we'd had to fit the coat since I wrote about his Spring visit to San Francisco. The faults we found in the first fitting were all fixed, leaving an issue with the sleeve length and the buttons and buttonholes as the only tasks remaining. As is too often the case with bespoke, that means my warm weather jacket will be finished just as the weather turns cold.


It's a three roll 2.5 jacket with patch pockets that will have gilt buttons as it's intended to replace a worn navy blazer. I plan to wear it with gray fresco or, when I'm feeling bold, terra cotta linen trousers.

I left Peter a couple yards of gun club tweed (barely visible on the chair in the back of the second photo) for our next project, an odd jacket for Fall. That one will have crescent pockets and a paddock front.