Prince of Wales check cloth photographed at thread level, the weave clearly visible.

You are not buying a suit. You are buying cloth.

The cut is the same at every price we quote. The finish is the same. What changes is the cloth, and we will show you exactly what it costs.

28Measurements

3Cloth tiers

$1,300Where it starts

Placeholder standing in for Zegna cloth.

Photograph neededZegna cloth, same macro framing as tier one. Daylight, no flash, filling the frame at roughly 10cm across.

Placeholder standing in for Loro Piana cloth.

Photograph neededLoro Piana cloth at the same macro framing, plus one shot of the selvedge with the mill name visible.

Tier 01 of 03

The mill

Unbranded, woven in Asia, and genuinely good. No name on the selvedge, which is most of why it costs what it costs. This is where a first suit should start.

$1,300 Two piece, our house cut

Doug and Natalie, in Florence.

He could not buy a jacket that fit after years of competitive bodybuilding. She could not find anyone who would make for women the way they make for men. Kensington Collective started as the fix for both.

Doug and Natalie in camel overcoats against a rusticated stone wall in Florence. — Pitti Uomo, winter

Natalie in a Prince of Wales check suit in a Florence doorway. — Women's check suit, made to measure

Doug in a dark navy suit and white shirt on a Florence street. — House cut, navy

See the books in person.

We travel with the fabric books. A first fitting takes about ninety minutes, in Boston or wherever we are that month, and there is no charge to be measured.