Why Tailoring Is Quietly Taking Over the Wardrobe

Somewhere between the hoodie and the hybrid working week, the blazer came back. Not the stiff, shoulder-padded kind, but a softer thing, cut with enough ease to wear over a T-shirt and enough structure to carry a meeting.

The appeal is simple. A well-cut jacket does the thinking for you. It makes a pair of jeans look intentional and a creased shirt look like a choice. And because it has more seams than almost any other garment, it can be altered to fit you rather than the average person.

If you are starting from nothing, buy the jacket first and the trousers second. Get the shoulders right and have everything else taken in. A tailor’s bill of thirty or forty pounds will do more for the way a jacket looks than another hundred spent on the label.