“At that time, we’re talking about more than a half a century ago, a lot of the better shops in London still had a kind of Dickensian quality to them. You almost expected somebody like Mr. Micawber or Scrooge or somebody to come out of the back room wearing a frock coat and a celluloid collar…”

Bruce Boyer

Bruce has been visiting London’s Savile Row – the birthplace of tailoring – for almost sixty years. In this episode of Unbuttoned, he shares stories of some of the tailors he’s met along the way and what they revealed about this august and esoteric world.

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