ASHWORTH&VANEBespoke Tailors · Est. 1948
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Shown in House Midnight Barathea — one of 2 recommended lengths

Peak lapel, grosgrain facing, midnight blue

The Midnight Dinner Suit

From

£4,180

Lead time

12–14 weeks

Fittings

3

A dinner jacket is the one garment where the rules do the work for you, so we keep them: peak lapel faced in grosgrain, single button, no vents, and a trouser with a single braid down the outside seam.

No belt loops, ever. The trouser is finished with a curtained waistband and brace buttons, and hemmed with no turn-up.

We keep four spare metres of the house midnight barathea in the archive against the day a client needs a matching waistcoat or a second trouser.

Commission this cut

Specification

The house standard for this cut. Every line of it can be changed at the specification sitting.

Cloth
House midnight barathea, 12oz
Facing
Silk grosgrain — satin on request
Front
Single button, no vents, ventless skirt
Trouser
Single 18mm braid, no turn-up, brace buttons
Pockets
Jetted, grosgrain-edged
Includes
Matching cummerbund, hand-pleated

From the cutter

Bring the shoes you intend to wear to the third fitting. Patent oxfords sit lower than a plain calf shoe and the trouser length has to answer to them.

Cloths we would suggest

Full book

House Midnight Barathea

Woven to our specification · 12oz

Our own cloth, rewoven every second year. Deeper than black in a lit room and it never photographs grey.

Ink Wool-Mohair

Pellandro, Biella · 10oz

A dry hand with a faint sheen under lamplight. Springs back out of a chair, which is why it goes into so many evening commissions.

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