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?
A few weeks ago, we published a couple of posts about ties. Catching sight of his own ties on the rack, your correspondent was moved to think briefly about striped ties. The most obvious use for a striped tie is the regimental, school, college or club affiliation. Useful, if you need to be recognised as
Continuing on the previous post: When you Order MTM, the fifth point to consider is the process. What exactly happens in the MTM shop, behind the scenes? A MTM shop is a factory. It may be turning out several thousand garments a month, or only a few, but it is a factory. That means that
Continuing on the previous post: When you Order MTM, the fourth point to consider is the fabric. And this is where things can get very interesting. Fabric costs money: this may be a truism, but it is true for all that. We forget just how much. Decent worsted wool, the most common fabric for a
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?
Bespoke suits, jackets and trousers are the Bugatti of menswear: exclusive, personalised, the height of luxury and the opposite of mass produced, RTW offerings. At the other end of the market you can find literally boatloads of garments, ranging from T shirts at a few dollars to well made (in some cases handmade) suits in
Curse of most ready to wear jackets, and all too often visible on MTM and even bespoke garments, collar gap is something that we have all seen, and too often owned, so to speak. It spoils the entire effect of an otherwise good jacket. What causes it, and how can it be prevented? Leave aside
The herringbone pattern is familiar in men’s jackets and suits. Wide, narrow, loud or restrained, it has been with us for ever so long. How long, exactly? And how did it start? Like everything in menswear and, more widely, in clothing, it has an interesting story. Ancient, the herringbone weave goes back a fair way:
Paisley designs are familiar, from wallpaper to neckties, and have been so for at least the past 200 years. But the story is a case of “once upon a time”. Paisley designs can be traced back to Iran and Zoroastrian symbols on carpets, applied in something like their present shape to kashmiri shawls, brought back
The pork pie hat, made famous by Charles Mingus in his jazz standard “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”, is another version of the men’s hat variety; often misnamed, it is best described as having a brim and a round crown. The pork pie is historically associated with jazz musicians. Lester Young’s pork pie had a large
Continuing our casual tour through the world of hats: today we look at the trilby. Like the fedora, the trilby is named after a woman – in this case Trilby, a play by George Du Maurier which ran first in 1894. The hat, modelled on a Tyrolean hat (see upcoming post). In contrast to the
The fedora is so common that it serves as a collective name for just about any hat with a brim that is not a stetson or a bowler. Image: Optimo Hats (Proff’s favourite) The hat in the picture is an Optimo fedora, with a 2.25 inch brim (a fairly standard shape). It is a “soft”
The dust has settled and the pre-launch excitement has died down a bit in the back offices here at AskOkey. Now the hard work starts fulfilling the four-score preorders and ensuring that the MTM production line can coast along in fifth gear. Some commenters have suggested that MTM is simply a ticked-up version of Ready
Among the debates in the great parliament of menswear is the relative merits of the peak lapel. Even here at AskOkey, the topic has sparked discussion (not heated argument, but what you could call a robust exchange of views). Proff broke with tradition when he and Hashim designed a peak lapel single breasted suit with
Named after Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz), the Ricky jacket was a staple of 1950s youth wear. Image courtesy of the Houndstooth Kid Strictly speaking, a Ricky jacket has contrasting panels (in the picture, pale pink and dark blue). It has a zipper front, elastic waist and a fairly large collar. Made in gabardine (often rayon,