Tailoring the Groom

Wedding Plan: Here’s how to get your bridegroom looking like a million dollars on the big day. Wedding TV meets top London tailor Oliver Benjamin who takes us through different fabrics and styles, from morning coats to lounge suits. Creating something fro

Oliver Benjamin, good afternoon! Oliver Benjamin is not only myself but represented by four people that work for me and over for all the occasions throughout London. We are tailors and we also make lots of off the—shirts, ties and over case, socks, all sorts of accessories. And despite tailor’s means that someone can come in and create something from scratch, it’s not only their choice of cloth, it’s their choice of detail in terms of the cut. It’s then made to their measurements. They can only make an appointment or they can come in off the street. They would take a little bit of time and you go through the various elements so if someone walks in they’ll give us hopefully a brief, some sort of indication of what they’d like. Some people bring in pictures or maybe even something that they have seen or being recommended. On the groom’s wedding day, he can wear various things. We generally work on two elements, lawn suit and morning suit. The former lawn suit can be split between a day and an evening wedding. We do a lot of evening weddings in black tie, and we do a lot of day weddings in a very small—generally speaking, that would be based on a single—At the moment predominantly one or two buttons, one I think is very smart we’re trying to suggest that especially for something like a wedding because again, takes away from a work seat. Obviously, a lot people are asking for things that we’ll pick up colors for all flowers, bridesmaids, etcetera. We can do little details like the last button on the cuff could match the color maybe the button hole for the flower could match color. The lining is very important with that, we’ve got a fantastic range of hundreds of colors for the internal part of the suit so even if you have a quite classic outer you can go for something really vibrant like a baby pink or baby blue or a lavender or something really fun that might be more in keeping with the bright side of things. We also make shirts for people. We have all the pictures in the store which are all visibly finished in a great—exclusive to us. However, if part of the day you want to create, you want a shirt as well you can do that. So we have a number of different options on style for their collar for the cuff. All the detail can be done and again, you can have your initials put on it and possibly even a date. Fabric wise, if you’re going to have a morning coat made, it’s most probably the most conservative. So, generally speaking, the cloth that would want such a thing will be limited to black top probably herringbone, so it’s got a small—and then followed by a stripe trouser something like that but basically it’s a combination of the gray-black in different settings. The alternative to that would be a—which is acceptable slightly more flamboyant. But this fabric could be for a waist coat. This also, it could be for a waist coat and —this sort of light to fabric and used for summer wedding, made in a nice lawn seat. So you can pick out any number of shades from white through and really have some fun with color there. Again, adding to that color of the lining and stitch detailing to make an over combination which is more interesting. Having—made for you means that everything is created on your behalf. It’s truly individual. You can have your initials embroidered in it. You can have the date of your wedding embroidered in it. You could choose any number of options on the styling. You can choose any number of options on the cloth. So effectively you are creating something from scratch. We guide you and that’s how—but you have something that you’ll always remember on your day as being totally unique and special.