Near the end of several enjoyable months spent viewing thirty-some episodes of the BBC television series The House of Eliott, about a London couture house in the 1920's, I was sent publicity materials for Stowers Bespoke. Stowers is a Savile Row tailor presenting couture for ladies.
Now, the English tailors of my acquaintance will all make clothing for ladies. Unfortunately, most of that looks disappointingly (at least for those of us who like our women to look like females) like their clothing for men. The Stowers pieces do not suffer that disadvantage.
The highlight of the collection in my opinion is the bespoke two piece grey houndstooth skirt suit in the photo that reminds me of the on camera daywear of the Eliott sisters - high praise indeed. And at £3,000 (about $4,250 ex VAT) it is pricey but hardly exorbitant compared to the cost of, say, Valentino ready to wear at the neighborhood department store. Especially considering that it is the kind of thing that should be wearable for decades.
Photo: Stowers Bespoke
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We saw some ladies pieces in the window and went down to have a look and in Stowers premises met Alastair, I can't remember if that is his surname or christian name. The house of Alastair is a range included in Stowers website of womenswear.
He was a very pleasant young man fitting a lady who looked very much like Marianne Faithful with a cream coloured business suit.
I loved The House of Elliot. Beautiful suit! The price is an impediment though.
To borrow from Rumpole of the Bailey, "she who must be obeyed," might like it, but her practical side would object to the expense. Lucky me.
I always enjoy the blog as a source of fashion inspiration. Yet writing as a woman who dresses the part of a gentleman most of the time, I must take exception to your remark about women's suit tailoring.
You should know that many of the women who feel most at ease in masculine clothing are dressing to be dashing, rather than be feminine. Why? How can I put this delicately? We're not dressing for male eyes; we're dressing for other women. Perhaps we "disappoint" you because you want "your" women to dress like Women Should Dress (a dubious notion indeed.)
We don't dress to impress men, but your opinion still stings a little.
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