What do you make besides suits?

Tuxedos priced at consultation, overcoats priced at consultation, odd trousers priced at consultation and custom shirts priced at consultation. Odd jackets and business suits are a large part of the week as well. Every tailored garment is full canvas and fully bespoke, cut from a pattern drawn for one person.

Will you work on a garment you did not make?

No. We work only on garments we have made. What we do is make the garment to order, and every commission carries unlimited fittings and one year of complimentary fit work from the day you collect it.

What does a custom shirt cost, and how long does it take?

A custom shirt is priced at consultation and takes two to four weeks. It is made to your own pattern, like everything else here. Collar shape is the part most men have never been asked about, and the part that shows above a jacket all day.

Can you come to my home or office?

Yes, anywhere in Los Angeles. $300 visit within 20 miles of our Playa Del Rey studio. Farther away? Ask us when you book. We bring cloth, linings and finished garments with us, so nothing about the appointment is reduced. It works particularly well for a group commissioning together, and for men who cannot get to Playa del Rey inside business hours.

What is included after I collect a garment?

One year of complimentary fit work on anything we have made, from the day you collect it. Posture and weight change, and a garment that was right in March can want a quarter of an inch in November. The pattern is kept, so a second commission is much easier than the first.

Should I order odd trousers instead of a second suit?

Often, yes. Odd trousers start priced at consultation, and a spare pair roughly doubles the life of a suit, because trousers wear out long before the jacket does. They are also less formal than the name suggests: flannel, cavalry twill, cotton drill, moleskin and linen are commissioned at least as often as suiting cloth.

What does a rush commission cost?

We will tell you at the consultation what a rush involves; it can bring a suit to roughly six weeks. The usual timing is 4 to 12 weeks in domestic cloth and toward the longer end of that range in imported Italian or English.

Tailoring Services in Los Angeles

Mr James is a European tailoring house at 221 Culver Blvd, Playa del Rey. Robb founded it in 2010, and every garment since has been cut and made in our own atelier in France. Everything below is full canvas and fully bespoke, drawn from a pattern made for one person. We do not offer made to measure.

This page lists everything we make and how long each garment takes, naming the cloth houses we work in, with the figure for your own cloth settled at the consultation. If it is the suits that brought you here, the whole of that work is set out on our page for custom suits Los Angeles.

If you are still working out what sort of tailor you actually need, our page for custom tailor Los Angeles sets out the four trades the word covers and what each of them is good for.

What we make, and what it costs

Two-piece suit	Priced at consultation
Three-piece suit	Priced at consultation
Tuxedo and black tie	Priced at consultation
Overcoat	Priced at consultation
Odd trousers	Priced at consultation
Custom shirt	Priced at consultation
Visit to your home or office	$300 visit within 20 miles of our Playa Del Rey studio. Farther away? Ask us when you book.

Those are our house cloths, where a commission begins. Finer mills run from Drago, which is priced at consultation and is the least expensive of the four, through Zegna and Holland & Sherry priced at consultation, to Loro Piana priced at consultation. Unlimited fittings and one year of complimentary alterations are included in every price, at every level. A fuller account is on our page for bespoke suit cost Los Angeles. What each of the four houses is good at, and how a client actually chooses between them at the table, is on our page on suit cloth and the mills.

A deposit on commission, the balance on delivery. If the date is close, we will tell you at the consultation what a rush involves.

Bespoke suits

The house's principal work. A pattern is drawn for you from around thirty measurements and three photographs that record how you actually stand, then cut and made in France. 4 to 12 weeks, depending on the cloth, Italian or English.

Business suits, odd jackets, separate trousers, and the soft-shouldered navy that most men in Los Angeles need more than they need a formal one. The stages of commissioning a bespoke suit, from the first hour with the cloth to the last fitting, are set out in full on that page.

Which of those a man actually needs, and what the number of pieces and the closure change about a suit, is set out in our guide to the types of suits. And if the navy is settled and it is the second commission that is the open question, which suit colour to buy first takes the shades in order. If it is a jacket rather than a suit that is wanted, our note on the difference between a suit, a blazer and a sport coat takes the three apart. And once the jacket is on, which buttons to fasten on a jacket, waistcoat and cuff settles the question for every closure we cut.

Wedding suits

For grooms, and for whole parties. Six months is comfortable; three months is perfectly workable; six weeks is possible as a rush. A year out is too early: men change shape, and so do their intentions about the day.

How a party of five or six is best sequenced is covered on our page for groomsmen suits Los Angeles. More on wedding suits Los Angeles. Our step-by-step guide to how to get a wedding party measured covers the measuring day and the groomsman who lives out of state.

Tuxedos and black tie

Priced at consultation, which is roughly what four or five evenings of hire cost. Grosgrain or satin facings, one button or a shawl, trousers with a braid and no belt loops. Everything we make for a custom tuxedo Los Angeles, down to the question of a cummerbund, has a page of its own.

Custom shirts

Priced at consultation, made to your own pattern, two to four weeks. Collar shape is the part most men have never been asked about and the part that shows above a jacket all day. Collars, cuffs, cloth and fit for custom shirts Los Angeles are set out at length on that page. Our guide to shirt collars and cuffs takes each shape in turn, and the knot and the face each one suits.

Overcoats and odd trousers

An overcoat: the garment everyone sees first and almost nobody has made properly.

Cloth, length and the case for having a coat made in a warm city are set out on our page for custom overcoats Los Angeles.

Odd trousers priced at consultation, which are frequently the honest answer when a man asks for a second suit he will not wear. They are also far less formal than the name suggests: flannel, cavalry twill, cotton drill, moleskin and linen are commissioned at least as often as suiting cloth, and with no jacket to match, every detail of the trouser is yours to decide. Our guide to odd trousers: what they are and when they beat a second suit covers the cloths, the detailing, the cost and why a spare pair roughly doubles the life of a suit. The fitting side of it, meaning rise and seat, cloth weight, pleats, cuffs and side adjusters, is set out on our page for custom trousers Los Angeles.

Alterations on what we make

Unlimited fittings while the garment is being made, and one year of complimentary alterations from the day you collect it. A waist let out, a sleeve shortened, a trouser taken in as the year goes on: that is included on anything that came from this bench.

We no longer take alterations in as a separate job, and we do not work on garments made elsewhere. Our guide to how to care for a bespoke suit sets out the habits that keep a garment out of the alterations room in the first place: resting, brushing, steaming, and how rarely a suit actually needs dry cleaning.

Visits to your home or office

$300 visit within 20 miles of our Playa Del Rey studio. Farther away? Ask us when you book. It works particularly well for a group commissioning together, and for men who genuinely cannot get to Playa del Rey inside business hours.

Firms booking a visit for several people at once will find the whole of that work set out on our page for corporate and team suiting in Los Angeles.

Full canvas, in every garment

A full canvas jacket has a layer of horsehair and wool stitched between the cloth and the lining. A fused jacket (which is most of what is sold, including a great deal of expensive made-to-measure) is bonded with adhesive. It looks correct in the shop and bubbles after a few years of heat and dry cleaning.

We make full canvas in the plainest of our house cloths and in the dearest cloth Loro Piana weaves. It is not an upgrade here. The comparison is set out honestly on our page for made to measure Los Angeles, including the cases where made to measure is the sensible choice. We simply do not make it.

How a commission runs

An hour, free, with Robb. He is at every appointment; you will not be handed to a salesman. Cloth chosen with what each one involves set out plainly, then measurements and photographs. The pattern is drawn and kept, so a second commission is much easier than the first.

Fittings are unlimited and included. So are alterations for the first year. There is more on booking a fitting, including what the hour covers and what is worth bringing with you.

Where we are

221 Culver Blvd, Playa del Rey, CA 90293. By appointment, with forty-eight hours' notice. Free parking front and back.

Book a private consultation, or if nothing on the calendar suits, telephone 310-503-3592 and we will find a time. You can also write to mrjames@bespokemrjames.com.

A commission also makes a considered present. A Mr James gift card can be put towards a suit, a shirt or an overcoat, and a small range of house pieces sits in the shop.

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