Enter an old-school haberdashery or a high-end showroom, and you’ll see bolts of fabric stacked on shelves or sampled in swatch books arranged like a miniature library. This is the raw stuff that ...

It is an expression that is meant to showcase the extraordinary capability of a bespoke tailor I recently visited a tailor in Italy on a friend’s advice. The tailor said he could cut the fabric using ...

Shopping for a suit can feel like learning an entirely new language. You go in looking for a simple two-piece, and you wind up trying to decipher what “half-canvassed” means and wondering whether your ...

To walk into a tailor’s shop today is to commit a small act of cultural rebellion, not the dramatic sort that involves barricades or slogans, nothing that will trouble the stock market, but rebellion ...

If you’ve ever wondered what you can do with odd scraps of fabric, then Jules Haines’s house is where to find inspiration. Her Victorian terrace is filled with examples of how to use leftover textiles ...

Long-time Ocean City tailor Raffaele Biamonte, of Ocean City, poses Thursday, July 7, in his tailor shop on Asbury Avenue. Biamonte has owned the shop for nearly 43 years and custom-makes suits and ...