Tailored for Tomorrow

  • Words Ayla Angelos

There are few streets in the world that carry as much weight as Savile Row which is, by any means, a short street only a little over 150 yards long. Built between 1731 and 1732 as part of the Burlington Estate, it takes its name from Lady Dorothy Savile, wife of the 3rd Earl of Burlington, and began as a residential address for military officers and statesmen. The first tailors to set up on the Row itself are thought to have been Henry Poole & Co., who in 1846 turned the workshops behind their Old Burlington Street shop into a grand new entrance on the Savile Row side. Within a century the street had become shorthand for the best of British tailoring, and for the word ‘bespoke’,

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