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The world of the trade
Fine clothing is made in a surprisingly small number of streets. Every house, shoemaker, shirtmaker and mill on the site with a known address is here.
Positions are the city, not the shopfront. Equirectangular projection, cropped at 83°N and 58°S. Land outlines: Natural Earth (public domain).
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All city pages →Naples
Naples is today's most influential tailoring city, known for soft, light jackets with little padding, high armholes and gathered sleeves, made for hot weather.
CityLondon
London's Savile Row holds the world's oldest still-trading tailoring houses, cutting jackets with a firm chest and defined shoulder, with shoemakers and shirtmakers close by.
CityParis
Paris has a tiny, distinctive tailoring trade making jackets with rounded built-up shoulders and very clean chests, and it is home to shirtmaker Charvet.
CityMilan
Where Italian tailoring puts its jacket back on: cleaner, sharper and considerably more businesslike.
CityFlorence
Florentine tailors make soft, rounded jackets with wide lapels, and the city also hosts Pitti Uomo, the menswear trade's twice-yearly gathering.
CityRome
Roman tailors cut lightly built jackets that sit close to the body, landing between soft Neapolitan and more structured Milanese styles.
CityNew York
New York has little custom tailoring of its own, but more foreign tailors visit for trunk shows there than anywhere, so you can order without travelling.
CityTokyo
Where European craft was studied to the letter, and in shoemaking arguably surpassed.
CitySeoul
Seoul's young custom tailors, mostly trained in Naples and Florence, make soft, light jackets cut for slimmer builds and became known through photos shared online.
CityHong Kong
Hong Kong's tailors are famous for making suits fast, but quality ranges from genuinely fine custom work to 24-hour suits made elsewhere, all called bespoke.
CityMadrid
Madrid has a small, old tailoring trade making structured, formal clothes, with more court and ceremonial dress than anywhere else in Europe.
CityVienna
Vienna's small surviving tailoring trade makes jackets with high, built-up shoulders, a very close-fitting chest and unusually extensive hand sewing, with Knize its best-known…
CityBiella
Biella is where much of the world's fine suit cloth is spun and woven, by mills like Loro Piana and Vitale Barberis Canonico.
CityNorthampton
Northampton is the centre of English shoemaking, where Edward Green, Crockett & Jones, Church's and others make shoes in factories running for a century or more.