At The Valet, and under our previous guise as The Jaunty Flaneur, we take great pains to ensure we use the right product for our shoe care services. For us, that means the Saphir Medaille d’Or range. Our utmost priority when polishing shoes is caring for the leather to ensure its longest life and healthiest …
Jacket alterations can make a ready to wear suit as close to bespoke as can be. Our Savile Row experience dealing with the complex 3D nature of hand made suits places us in an ideal position to alter your jacket beyond what you may think is even possible. Relatively straight forward jacket alterations, such as …
Leather bag repair is a natural extension of our shoe care offering. Indeed any leather accessory can be nourished, coloured, restored and cared for in a way that adds life to the item or changes how it fits into the rest of your wardrobe. As with our shoe care, our priority when dealing with bag …
Hardy Amies is often cited as saying that one should look as if one has ‘chosen their clothes with intelligence, put them on with care… and then forgotten all about them’. It’s this last point that gives someone a comfort and ease about them, and also a confidence. But it’s also in this nonchalance that …
Hand pressing is something of an unsung hero in the tailoring community. During the making, tailors will begin to shape the garment using heat and pressure to develop the three dimensional shape that is so important to having something made bespoke and by hand. It is the proper application of stress to the suit that …
