Edinburgh Tailoring Company

Edinburgh Tailoring Company Welcome to Edinburgh Tailoring Company! We offer bespoke suits, shirts, and overcoats for everyone. Contact us today to start your bespoke journey!

Visit our studio in Edinburgh for custom, high-quality, handmade garments. Edinburgh Tailoring Company are bespoke tailors based in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle. All of our garments are completely handmade from scratch by our talented team of tailors based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Our story with the Nepalese goes back over 10 years to the days where our founder, Christopher McGowan, worked with an

incredible business based in London. Due to the close connections that business had with the Nepalese, Christopher formed some incredible relationships with the production team. In early 2016, Christopher left the business, but maintained contact with the team in Kathmandu. It was in 2018 when Christopher heard that there may be difficulties with the UK side of the business, and he had to help. And so ETC was founded, with the purpose of maintaining the production centre in Nepal and to ensure that as many of the team were kept working as possible. Edinburgh Tailoring Company offer high quality bespoke tailoring for men and women at reasonable prices. We work with some of the best cloth mills in the UK and Europe to provide an incredible range of cloth options. Whether you require Tartan or Tweed, Wool or Linen, you'll find it at ETC. We also offer an incredible range of Shirt options to help you create your perfect shirt options to enhance your wardrobe. Book a free consultation at Edinburgh Tailoring Company to discuss your needs and we'll help bring your ideas to life.

The two words are not interchangeable, though the industry often treats them as if they were.We once met a client who ha...
08/07/2026

The two words are not interchangeable, though the industry often treats them as if they were.

We once met a client who had paid a bespoke price, sat through more than 10 fittings, and still walked away with a suit that didn't quite fit him. What he had actually been sold was made-to-measure. He simply hadn't been told the difference.

So here it is, plainly.

Bespoke begins with a blank sheet of paper. A pattern is drafted entirely from your body, your posture, and the way you move. Every seam, every line, every proportion is yours alone. It suits clients with a non-standard shape, a strong point of view on style, or an occasion worth marking properly.

Made-to-measure begins with an existing block pattern that is then adjusted to your measurements. Fewer fittings, a closer starting shape, and a lower price. When your frame sits reasonably close to the base pattern, the results can be excellent.

Neither approach is better in the abstract. One is simply more precise, more considered, and more time-intensive than the other. What matters is that you know which one you are paying for before you ever step onto the fitting stand.

If you are ever unsure, ask. A good tailor will tell you honestly.

A client once arrived for his July wedding fitting in a 380g wool. He was sweating before he'd even reached the vows.The...
07/07/2026

A client once arrived for his July wedding fitting in a 380g wool. He was sweating before he'd even reached the vows.

There's a lot of vague advice out there about "summer suits." Most of it skips the number that actually matters: the gram weight of the cloth.

For a Scottish summer, the sweet spot sits between 240 and 280g. Light enough to keep you comfortable through a long day outdoors, substantial enough to still hold a clean line in the photographs at 9pm. A wool-mohair blend around 260g holds its shape beautifully and sheds creases faster than you'd expect. A wool-linen mix breathes through humidity, though it relaxes more as the day goes on. If a sharp silhouette matters to you from ceremony to last dance, we'll usually suggest a half-canvas front.

The mills we lean on for this, Dugdale Brothers, Holland & Sherry, Loro Piana, all cut ranges specifically for these weights, and we're happy to open the swatch books and walk you through what suits your day, your body, and the light you'll be standing in.

Come in, take a seat on the burgundy chesterfield, and we'll find the cloth that still looks right at nine in the evening.

Those white threads running through the navy cloth are not decoration.They are basting stitches. Temporary. Loose. Delib...
06/07/2026

Those white threads running through the navy cloth are not decoration.

They are basting stitches. Temporary. Loose. Deliberately impermanent. Their job is to hold the shape of a jacket together while it is still deciding what it wants to be.

At a fitting, we look at those white lines and we ask questions. Does the shoulder sit right when you move? Is the chest clean? Does the lapel roll the way it should on your frame? If the answer is no, the stitches come out. The cloth is reshaped. We try again.

Nothing is committed to until it is proven right on your body. That is the whole quiet promise of bespoke. The final suit feels inevitable because every earlier version was allowed to be wrong first.

We think there is something worth borrowing in that idea, tailoring or not. Let the temporary do its work. Permanence can wait until it has been earned.

Every garment we make starts with a blank sheet of paper.No block pulled from a drawer, no template quietly adjusted to ...
05/07/2026

Every garment we make starts with a blank sheet of paper.

No block pulled from a drawer, no template quietly adjusted to fit you. Your measurements, your posture, the way one shoulder sits a little differently to the other, all of it drafted from scratch before a single piece of cloth is cut. That pattern belongs to you and no one else.

Here's what happens after the final fitting. You take the garment away and wear it into your real life. Meetings, weddings, long days on your feet, the way you actually move. And we keep your pattern on the table for eight weeks.

If something makes itself known once you've lived in the piece, a sleeve you'd like a touch longer, a line that sits differently in motion than it did standing in front of the mirror, come back to us. The pattern is still there, still yours. We'll put it right.

We call it a guarantee, but it's really just how the relationship works. The last fitting isn't the end of the conversation.

Come in for a chat and we'll walk you through it in person, cloth in hand, on the burgundy chesterfield.

Linen or lightweight wool?It's the first question we ask most clients booking a summer suit this month, and it's the one...
04/07/2026

Linen or lightweight wool?

It's the first question we ask most clients booking a summer suit this month, and it's the one that quietly shapes everything that follows.

Linen breathes like nothing else. A good Irish or Italian linen, cut with a soft shoulder and minimal canvas, moves with you through a July garden ceremony and rewards you with that lived-in texture by the end of the day. The creases are part of the character, not a flaw.

Lightweight wool holds its shape. A Super 110s or a high-twist from Dugdale Bros or Huddersfield Fine Worsteds drapes cleanly from morning vows to late-evening drams, travels well in a garment bag, and stretches its wear far beyond a single Scottish summer.

Neither is the right answer. The right answer depends on how you want to feel, and where you're going to be standing.

So tell us: linen or lightweight wool for your summer suit? We'll happily talk you through the cloth books either way.

03/07/2026

Every bespoke garment we make begins the same way. A blank piece of cloth, a sharpened tailor's chalk, and one precise mark.

That first line isn't casual. It carries every measurement taken across the consultation table — shoulder, chest, waist, the way you actually stand rather than the way a block assumes you do. No template. No shortcut. The pattern is drafted from scratch, for the person in front of us.

It's the reason bespoke takes the time it does, and it's the reason we can cut for any body and any occasion without asking anyone to fit a mould they were never shaped for.

One mark. Then the whole garment follows.

If you're thinking about a suit, a wedding outfit, or something for a moment that matters, now is a good time to come in and start the conversation.

She didn't ask for a women's suit. She asked for a suit.There's a difference, and it matters.For years she'd been handed...
03/07/2026

She didn't ask for a women's suit. She asked for a suit.

There's a difference, and it matters.

For years she'd been handed compromises. A men's block taken in at the waist. A women's off-the-peg jacket with darts in the wrong place, shoulders that sat an inch too wide, a lapel that never quite lay flat. Small wrongnesses that added up to a bigger one: clothes that didn't know who she was.

So we started where we always start. A blank sheet of pattern paper, her measurements, and a conversation about how she actually wanted to stand in a room. Structured shoulder or soft? Higher button stance to lengthen the line? Trouser break at the shoe or clean off the ankle? Every choice hers, drafted from scratch, nothing borrowed from a template built for someone else's body.

The cloth was chosen the same way every cloth is chosen here. Hand on the bolt, held up to the light, walked to the mirror. No separate rail, no women's section, no assumptions about what she'd want.

When she stood side-on to the mirror at the final fitting, she went quiet for a moment. That quiet is the whole job.

A suit should fit the person, not the category. That's true for every client who walks through the door, and it always will be.

Four months out from the wedding, and I thought I was early.I wasn't. A good tailor caps how many wedding commissions th...
02/07/2026

Four months out from the wedding, and I thought I was early.

I wasn't. A good tailor caps how many wedding commissions they take each season, and the choices you actually have shrink week by week. Mine made it work. He shouldn't have had to.

Then came the cloth. I picked one because it photographed well. He asked how long I'd be wearing it. Twelve hours in a Scottish summer, as it turned out. We landed on a four-seasons wool that breathed, and I didn't sweat through a single photo.

And the lining. Nobody warned me the lining was a real decision. I nearly left it as the default until the books came out, over 1,200 of them, and a deep burgundy paisley became my favourite part of the whole suit. Guests only saw it when I moved. That was the point.

The suit you marry in will outlast the day. Start earlier than you think you need to.

Swipe through for the full story, and if you're planning a 2027 wedding, now is a good time to come in for a chat.

Most people walk into a tailor thinking they need to arrive with a clear vision. You really don't.There are only three d...
02/07/2026

Most people walk into a tailor thinking they need to arrive with a clear vision. You really don't.

There are only three decisions that shape a bespoke suit, and a good tailor will walk you through each one. Style. Cloth. Lining.

Style sets the character of the suit. Cloth decides how it drapes, breathes, and lasts (and the first question we'll ask is how often you plan to wear it). Lining is the quiet bit only you see. With over 1200 options, it's where your personality lives inside the garment.

Swipe through for a proper look at each choice, and come to your first fitting curious rather than overwhelmed. That's the whole point of bespoke. ✂

Over 1,200 linings sit in our books, and the one a client chooses almost always says something they haven't said out lou...
01/07/2026

Over 1,200 linings sit in our books, and the one a client chooses almost always says something they haven't said out loud yet.

A flash of deep coral inside a charcoal jacket. A soft moss green folded into a wedding waistcoat. A quiet tartan tucked under a collar for the father who couldn't be there.

The outside of a bespoke garment is what the world sees. The inside is what you know. That's where the truer story lives, and it's one of the reasons we love this work. Every client, whoever they are and however they dress, gets a private detail that belongs only to them.

We'll happily talk you through the full range, from Cupro and viscose to pure silk, plain or patterned, subtle or gallus. There's no right answer. Only your answer.

Come in, take a seat on the burgundy chesterfield, and we'll open the swatch books together.

Address

40-44 Rose Street North Lane
Edinburgh
EH22NP

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm

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+441312151475

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