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Boston · London cloth · Made to measure

Your pattern is
drawn once, and
kept for life.

Twenty eight measurements, drafted by hand onto paper, then chalked onto the cloth. We keep that pattern. Every suit you order after the first one begins where the last one left off.

Book a fitting See the cloth
A rail of finished Kensington Collective garments in navy, charcoal, olive and brown pinstripe, with navy gift boxes below.
The studio rail. Every piece cut from a client's own pattern.
01

The pattern is the thing you actually buy.

A ready made suit is cut to an average. A made to measure suit is cut to you, once, from a drawing that exists nowhere else. That drawing is yours.

We draft it on paper, chalk it onto the cloth by hand, and then file it. When you come back in three years for a second jacket, we do not measure you from nothing. We pull your pattern, adjust it for the years, and cut.

  • Neck 15½
  • Chest 42
  • Waist 36
  • Seat 40
  • Shoulder 18¼
  • Sleeve 25
  • Back length 31¾
  • Front length 33
  • Bicep 15
  • Cuff 10½
  • Outseam 42
  • Inseam 31
  • Thigh 24
  • Knee 18

Fourteen of twenty eight shown

Pattern piece · forepart · client 0114

Solid line, the cut. Dashed, the seam allowance. Notches mark where the pieces meet.

02

The cloth is where the money goes.

The cut and the finish are identical at every level. What changes is the cloth, and what it costs. We would rather tell you that plainly.

01The millUnbranded Asian mill. Excellent hand, honest cloth, no name on the selvedge. Where most first suits should start.from $1,300Two piece, our house cut
02ZegnaItalian mill, familiar name, noticeably finer drape. The step most clients take second.on requestPriced by the metre
03Loro PianaThe finest we source. The same cloth, the same suit, roughly two thousand less than going direct.about $8,000Around $10,000 direct

Shirts from $225. Jackets and jeans from $400.

03

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
Close detail of a brown Prince of Wales check jacket, woven texture visible at thread level.
Prince of Wales check, women's cut
Doug in a dark navy suit and white shirt on a Florence street.
House cut, navy
04

Start your pattern.

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

Or join the cloth letter. Once a month, what is being worn and what has just landed in the books. No selling.