Our senior cutter where I work made his suit. Firstly, his stylists gave us kind of useless or just wrong measurements so when he first came for a fitting it was a bit of disaster. Then they didn't like the original colour or cut and so we had to completely remake this bespoke suit (with unique cloth) in less than a month with only that meeting to go off (obviously these things can be prioritised but generally it takes 3 months and 3-4 fittings for a first time pattern). Initially it was a bronze brown with dark gold chalk stripe, sort of classically themed, I guess. They wanted the coat about 4-5 inches shorter, so now you can see this one comes up quite a bit above the fork of his trousers, rather than being more level, and the buttons and pockets are quite high, which you can see shows up a bit by the pull on the right side, but that can also be attributed to the fact that he's very muscley and it's difficult to sculpt the shape of a structured coat like ours without some resistance against very athletic proportions, besides being double-breasted, too (he may not have fastened the jigger button after having it undone, as well, which helps hold up the excess front on the other side). The pockets themselves are an unusual slant which is actually just a stylised option based on previous designs by our head cutter and inspired by our naval heritage. They're jetted and lined to match the silk dress facing on the lapels (which I think are a liiiiittle but smaller than we normally do, but lots of people don't like that classic style anymore) and buttons, giving it more of a formal dress vibe they probably wanted for the red carpet (though looking at the other men I think they all just got bespoke suits made, being in London, I suppose, but they weren't nearly as dressy). The cloth itself has a subtle sort of chalk stripe woven into it in black, complementing the formal features, and it's more subtle than before which helps to hide the other detail - that it's actually morse code spelling out 'The Odyssey' (another quirk from our naval thematic gimmicks which is a bit on the nose but kind of cool when used discretely). I think that dark, deep blue is really nice, more in line with the naval/formal style, though it's kind of too unique to really ever wear again for anything properly formal (I don't remember the trousers having silk stripes, either, so not quite). Still, a heroic effort by our cutter and tailors (and the bike courier who picked it up on Friday evening)!
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