Custom Suits for Playa Vista

Mr James opened its first Los Angeles showroom in Playa Vista in 2017. Since 2021 the house has been a few minutes away, at 221 Culver Blvd in Playa del Rey. From $1,795, every suit is cut to your own pattern, built on a full canvas and finished by hand at our atelier in Southern Brittany.

So this is less a tailor near Playa Vista than Playa Vista's own tailor, moved down the road: the bespoke tailor in Playa del Rey is eight minutes from the campuses. The same goes for custom suits Westchester and for anyone at Loyola Marymount, on the bluff above us.

The suit you wear twelve times a year

Playa Vista is an office district where almost nobody wears a suit to work. That changes what a suit is for. It comes out for a board meeting, a funding round, an interview, a wedding, a funeral, and it has to be right every time, because there is no second one in the wardrobe to fall back on.

That is the argument for having one made properly. A suit cut from your own pattern, in a cloth chosen for how you live, does that job for years. We set out why fit is read before anything else in why a suit that fits changes how you are read, and what separates one price from another in the difference between a $500 suit and a $5,000 suit.

If you travel

The airport is a short drive away, and a good deal of tailoring from this neighbourhood spends its life in a carry-on. For that, cloth matters more than cut. A high-twist wool sheds creases overnight on a hanger, where a soft flannel or a linen will not. Tell us how often the suit flies and we will choose accordingly. There is more in our guide to cloth for warm weather, and in what the super numbers and the weight on a suit cloth mean.

Getting here from Playa Vista

Jefferson to Lincoln, or Culver Boulevard straight through, eight minutes to 221 Culver Blvd. We are the tailoring house nearest the Playa Vista campuses, and a lunchtime consultation is realistic. What that first hour covers, and what is worth bringing to it, is set out on booking a fitting. Inland and north, past Culver City, custom suits Mar Vista come from the same bench on the same terms.

Who comes to us from Playa Vista

Playa Vista is Silicon Beach: Google, YouTube, Facebook and the agencies around them. The men who come to us from there wear a suit perhaps a dozen times a year, for a pitch, a wedding, a board dinner, and want each of those dozen days to go well. They also travel, which is why we talk about cloth that survives a suitcase.

What it costs

A travel-ready two-piece starts at $1,795; a jacket and two pairs of odd trousers is often the better buy. The bespoke suit cost Los Angeles page has every price, and how much a bespoke suit costs in Los Angeles explains what the money buys.

We do not offer made to measure, and the comparison is set out on made to measure Los Angeles.

If the question is the diary rather than the figure, how long it takes to make a bespoke suit accounts for each of the four to eight weeks in turn, and for a black-tie evening in the calendar, renting a tuxedo or having one made sets the two costs beside each other. Our custom tuxedo Los Angeles page covers the garment itself.

We can come to the office

A visit to a home or office anywhere in Los Angeles is $300, with cloth and finished garments brought to you. It suits a team commissioning together, and anyone who cannot leave during business hours. More on home and office visits.

Shirts

A custom shirts Los Angeles commission is $295, made to your own pattern in two to four weeks. The range of the trade, well past hemming a pair of trousers, is in what a tailor actually does.

Questions we are often asked

Is there a custom suit tailor in Playa Vista?

Mr James opened in Playa Vista in 2017 and has been a few minutes away at 221 Culver Blvd, Playa del Rey, since 2021.

Do you visit offices in Playa Vista?

Yes, for $300 a visit, with cloth brought to you.

I only wear a suit a few times a year. Is bespoke worth it?

That is the case it suits best. One suit, cut from your own pattern, worn for years. The pattern is kept on file, so a second commission is simpler than the first.

How long does it take?

Four to six weeks in domestic cloth, six to eight in imported. Shirts two to four weeks.

Do you cut for women?

Yes, by the same method and at the same prices. A woman's first bespoke suit in Los Angeles sets out what a first commission involves.

Playa Vista is one of several neighbourhoods we look after from the Playa del Rey storefront. If you would like the fuller picture — what every garment includes, the cloth houses we work with, prices in full and how the making is done — our main guide to custom suits Los Angeles covers all of it in one place.

Can you come to the Playa Vista campus?

Yes. Office visits in Playa Vista are $300, including travel and the full cloth selection. Lunchtime fittings on campus are easily arranged.

What cloth survives travel best?

A high-twist worsted in the 300 to 340 gram range. It shakes out of a suitcase and holds a crease, which a soft super-150s does not.

I rarely wear a suit. Why bespoke?

Because the few times you do are the times it matters most, and a full-canvas suit cut to your pattern will still fit and still look right in ten years.

Come and see us

Eight minutes away at 221 Culver Blvd, Playa del Rey, open by appointment every day of the week. Book a lunchtime consultation or call 310-503-3592.

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