Ordering tailored clothes online can be daunting. At AskOkey, we pride ourselves on making the online bespoke process as seamless and efficient as possible. With only a few simple steps on your end, we will create the most comfortable garments you’ve ever owned whilst looking like a king. Want a quick run-down on our process?
Ordering your first bespoke suit is something to celebrate, but what about ordering your first cloth? A thrilling experience that brings a new definition to self-expression. Today, AskOkey has made this experience a living reality. At AskOkey we tend to favour radical steps, so we decided to leap headfirst and design our own custom cloth
If you live fairly far north of the equator, you cannot help but notice that the days are longer and there is a bit more sun in the sky. If you live fairly far south of the equator you will need to wait another six months to see signs of an emerging summer, but what
Commenters on AskOkey’s social media posts have recently been questioning the length of AskOkey’s jackets: they are too long, many have argued. So just how long should a jacket be? First, the jacket is part of an ensemble. It is not a separate piece, worn in isolation. Thus, when discussing jacket length, we should be
Ordering tailored clothes online can be daunting. At AskOkey, we pride ourselves on making the online bespoke process as seamless and efficient as possible. With only a few simple steps on your end, we will create the most comfortable garments you’ve ever owned whilst looking like a king. Want a quick run-down on our process?
Can you imagine life without colour? 1950s’ TV comes to mind, the monochrome movies, a sea of gray, white, and black. While funeral directors and goths can salivate over monochrome color combinations, a discerning number of us gentlemen like a little bit of colour in our wardrobes. But how can you use colour, or more
Thinning the Herd – Managing your Wardrobe When did you last clean out your wardrobe? Do you have clothes that seem to have lost their appeal, are simply worn out or no longer fit? For some of us, it is ties; for others, trousers – what about you? The start of the year is a
It is that time of year again: the leaves have fallen off the trees, the skies are darkening early and there may even be snow on the ground. You open the cupboard and pull out your winter coat. What does it look like? A camel hair polo coat? Raglan sleeved tweed? Well tailored city coat
Time for tweed? As winter sets in for a few months’ residence in many parts of the world, our cold weather clothes are brought out and dusted off. Chances are that your jackets or possibly full suits, are made of tweed, that dependable stalwart of the winter wardrobe. Long-associated with college professors, librarians, shooters of
Those of you who remember the 80s will recall that double-breasted suits and jackets reappeared around 1980 – 81, first with very narrow lapels and then with wider lapels such that by the end of the decade, double-breasted suits were roomy, lapels were a good four inches wide, the peaks were pointed and the jackets
Now appearing in GQ magazine, AskOkey’s unique, handmade menswear. Don’t have at least one of our drape-cut jackets or suits yet? Still pondering over a pair of classic trousers or a waistcoat? You have no idea what you are missing. Think about it: look distinctive and enjoy comfort in contemporary classic designs, fully bespoke just
The blue blazer has been a staple of classic menswear for about a century, pulled out of the closet when a suit is too formal and a sports jacket a little too cheerful. Tailors and RTW houses sometimes try to inject variety with new fabrics and colour options (light navy, French navy, super dark navy),
At AskOkey we believe that there is an art to mastering the perfect suit, jacket or trousers. Beyond the precision of structured lines and the comfort of a well-fitted ensemble, one often-overlooked, crucial aspect is colour. The right colours can elevate your tailored look from good to exceptional, and this is where an understanding of
Do we need to ask the question? At AskOkey, the answer is obvious – because we can. However, judging from the men that your humble correspondent saw in the lift this morning, many men have never asked the question; or, if they have, they have forgotten the answer. First, what does it mean to dress
Possibly no word is more flagrantly mis-used than “bespoke”, followed closely by “custom”. Its original use in the 18th century mean “spoken for”, as in “bespoken”, meaning that it had been bought and paid for by someone. Applied to tailors and clothing, the word has traditionally been associated with personalised, hand made garments – the