Why Use Des?
The way I make your suit is unique in the UK and is unlike the way any other tailor will make, claim to make, or even attempt to make your suit.
All my clients are dealt with by me Desmond Merrion, I am the actual person who will measure you, cut your suit, and fully make your suit.
From the initial consultation until you have your suit on IT WILL HAVE NEVER LEFT MY HANDS.
I conduct the initial consultation and suit fittings at a time and place to suit my client day or night, week day or weekend.
I will then personally create your unique pattern from your measures, cut the cloth, prepare the fittings, make the suit to perfection from the fittings, do all the hand sewing and hand button holes, before also personally pressing your suit before delivery to you. I CUT AND MAKE ALL MY OWN WORK.
That one man should create a suit from client measures to finished suit single handed was rare 50 years ago and is practically unheard of nowadays.
I am a small business that really cares about my clients, all my clients are important to me and valued.
There are many so called tailors who will claim to cut and make your suit, but in reality this is not true. I know of not one other tailor in the UK that works in the purist cut and fully make single handed method.
There is not even one tailor on the mighty Savile Row that even works this way, I nor any of my cloth merchants know of not one.
The advantage of working this way with a cut and make tailor is far superior to the normal approach other tailors take by using out workers, it gives me absolute control over quality at every crucial stage to make you a perfect suit.
The way most other tailoring companies work is to simply have a cutter cut you a pattern and conduct the fittings for your suit. The coat will usually go to at least three different people: a tailor to prepare the fitting and for the general sewing and making, a finisher for the hand work on the collars, linings, edges, etc., and then on to a presser to press off your coat - who gives it back to the cutter.
Trousers will also go to a separate maker who again prepares them for the fitting after which he makes them fully through and returns them to the cutter to complete the suit.
Of course there is a downside to doing all the work yourself: I am limited to the amount of work I can take on.
I am looking for my customers to remain loyal for 30 or 40 years ( and more ) so the quantity of clients is not an issue as long as I am making a living - it is the quality that makes customers return and my method of make is a purists' form of tailoring
For my clients to be able to tell their friends and colleagues that their tailor really does cut and make their suits personally with no out workers involved is truly unique.
The above reasons are why you should use me, pay for one true craftsman who works in the traditional way, and not some cutter who will sub-contract the important making of your suit to a third party.