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Steed has a New Website!

Steed has a New Website!

Us at Steed recently launched our new website!

http://www.steed.co.uk

We have completely relaunched and updated our website.

From now we won’t be using blogspot as it is all run internally and will be posting bi-weekly on our website.

So make sure to check it out!

Steed in Sin City?

This Saturday, May 2nd marks the day of one of the biggest boxing fights of all time! Mayweather Vs Pacquiao.

 Avid Boxing fans have been waiting years for this fight and it is finally here, live in Las Vegas, Nevada! Everyone here at Steed will be forking our for this Pay-Per-View event which starts at 4am UK time. Possibly complimented by a few beers…

We will also be looking…

Charlie Casey, Cousin to myself, Chris and also Nephew to Edwin has joined us here at Steed just a few weeks ago. Charlie has come on board with every interest of learning all about the “Savile Row Tailoring world.”

Charlie has A-Levels in ICT and Business but chose not to attend University but to delve straight into the big wide world and start working. He’s held other jobs which most recently…

This time next week we will be in Chicago, USA. 

We are still taking appointments so please get in touch via [email protected] if you wish to arrange an appointment with myself and Edwin.

Looking forward to seeing you all out there.

Matthew

A couple weeks ago, (Tuesday, 29th April, 2014) saw Arsenal & Wales star, Aaron Ramsey hold his inaugural Golf Charity Day, raising money for Parkinson’s UK.

For such a great cause we decided to donate a Steed Bespoke 3-Piece Suit to the Charity Auction and which also saw myself play in the Golf Competition. (Even though I am just a 28 Handicap Beginner)!

Now Parkinson’s UK is a charity that is very dear to Aaron’s heart, due to the sad fact that his Uncle, passed away after suffering from the disease for just 2 years.

It was a difficult thing to hear, when Aaron was explaining to us all how healthy and happy his Uncle was before being diagnosed with Parkinson’s at a relatively young age and then how the disease progressed at an alarming rate before terribly taking his life.

Parkinson’s is something most of us have all heard of but if I am honest, I didn’t quite realise till this event how common this is and how swiftly things can change after being diagnosed.

Parkinson’s is a progressive neurological condition. People with Parkinson’s don’t have enough of a chemical called dopamine because some nerve cells in their brain have died.

Without dopamine people can find that their movements become slower so it takes longer to do things.

The loss of nerve cells in the brain causes the symptoms of Parkinson’s to appear.

There’s currently no cure for Parkinson’s and we don’t yet know why people get the condition.

Parkinson’s doesn’t directly cause people to die, but symptoms do get worse over time.

We where also told that everyone in the world would develop Parkinson’s if they lived to the age of 120.

To see the symptons of Parkinson’s please follow the link below.

http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/content/parkinsons-symptoms

The event itself, was held at the fantastic Shire London Golf Course in Barnet, North London, of which Aaron Ramsey is a club member and friend to all that work at the club.

The Shire London is a 27 Hole Facility which has a 9 Hole “Ballesteros Challenger Course” to go along side it’s prestigious Ballesteros “Masters” Course. These two course’s are the only two in the UK which were designed by the Legendary Seve Ballesteros back in 2007 before he sadly passed away in 2011.

The Ballesteros Masters Course is laid out like few other golf courses in the world. There are six par 5s, six par 4s and six par 3s, and on both the front 9 and the back 9, no two consecutive holes are the same par, with equal numbers of par 3s, 4s and 5s. This gives maximum variety, and maximum enjoyment – a core philosophy of Seve’s designs.

It really is a magnificent facility with a great clubhouse, which serve up amazing food for a great price and I can’t speak highly enough of the staff at the club as well. So if any of our clients are ever in the area and fancy a round, you should certainly give it a try, or even better…I will go play with you!

It was an absolute honour to attend the event and I can’t wait for next years event.

Aaron posing for Sky Sports at the event. My Golf Bag Tags For The Competition. Legendary Seve Ballesteros outside the clubhouse. Aaron presenting me with a pair of Match Worn & Signed Boots which I won in the Charity Auction Me watching my ball in flight on the Steed Sponsored 7th Hole.

I published a post back in January with some of the photo’s from when started this commission so I will be repeating myself here when re-capping the details.

The inspiration for this design came via the legendary Fred Astaire.

The style for the jacket is a classic, single breasted, generous peak lapel, one button with jetted pockets and no vents.

Made up in the H. Lesser Formal Wear 31268, which is a 15oz black barathea, complimented by grosgrain silk facings.

The trousers, being of the fishtail (High Backed) style, with a single forward pleat, plain bottoms, button fly and finished with a single striped, silk braid.

For the waistcoat (Vest) he decided upon a formal double breasted, four button with a shawl lapel.

Another feature which will be incorporated in the waistcoat design, are interchangeable buttons, in case fancier vest studs are wanted to be worn rather than the standard self faced buttons.

We have done this before for Vox in which was later named the Steed SAS (Swiss Army Suit) in which we made a few sets of buttons which where all interchangeable to give the ultimate flexible suit/blazer. More can be read about this by following the link below to the short blog article on this piece, which was made a few years ago now.

http://www.steed.co.uk/en/blog/steed-sas-swiss-army-suit/

We tried the complete suit on during our trip to Boston back in March and it just took the single fitting before finishing and sending out to Boston last week as it was required last Saturday for a Gala.

It was great to see this finished photo just this morning of our friend wearing his suit before heading out for what I am sure was a great evening so I just wanted to share this with you all.

Both Dad and I are looking forward to seeing the suit on ourselves in the flesh on our upcoming trip to The States in May/June.

The dates can be found below.

http://www.steed.co.uk/en/travel-itinerary/

Cheers,

Matthew

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