Pressing Matters

Permanent Style’s Simon Crompton speaks to our Creative Director about pressing during the bespoke process: https://www.permanentstyle.com/2022/09/pressing-an-unsung-art-of-bespoke-tailoring-video.html

Founded by professional journalist and editor Simon Crompton, Permanent Style has been listed as one of the best men’s sites in the world by GQ, Esquire, The Times, How to Spend It, The New York Times and many others.

One of the biggest such sites in the world, it receives up to 600,000 page views every month, and is read by over 1 million unique users every year.

To quote Simon and Permanent Style: ‘The first time I saw a tailor use an iron to shape cloth, I was genuinely surprised. You wouldn’t think material would be able to be manipulated that much, using steam and pressure to turn a straight piece of canvas into the shape of a collar. But it’s routine for bespoke tailoring, and is used in many other parts a suit….’