Tailoring

The Sutherland Sporting Tweed Company
Established 1995


Our Made To Measure tailoring service is
by appointment only
in our Lairg high street store.

Why choose made to measure?

Firstly the garment is made for you and will fit you better than any high street off the peg garment. Secondly, you will stand out from the crowd because only you will have the cloth whether it's Tweed or Suiting Fabric, and a design you have chosen made for you. The uniqueness of owning your own made to measure garment is a special experience.

All our garments are available in a fabric of your choice, tweed, velvet or suiting fabrics are available.
Click here to see some samples.

We have over 35 years of made to
measure tailoring experience.


Our high street location in the beautiful Highland village of Lairg has been our base for over 30 years.

When you come to us we will first ask what garments you are looking for, and for what purpose. This will help us guide you through the fabric choices that will suit you best.

Once you have decided on your perfect cloth we will move on to the measuring process, which will involve you trying on our size sets along with taking measurements when required.

Finally, after we have gone through all the options available to you to make your unique garment, we will send you away with a document that details what you have ordered and an estimated making time.

Materials/Fabrics/Cloths

We tailor in materials from a good selection of mills around the UK which we can supply. But we also will tailor in any material you own.

NOT JUST TWEED!!! We tailor in all fabrics and styles of fabric -
wool, wool blends, cashmere, tartans and velvets all in plain designs and many patterns from checks, window panes, pinstripes, herringbones etc.

Click here to see a selection of our fabric samples, or the below picture links.

Our Made To Measure Tailoring Service Explained

People can get confused as to what the made to measure service is.

The way we work is that we have an existing pattern for all the garments we offer. From here we get you to try them on, allowing you to get a feel for the garment itself, while allowing us as the tailors to have a look and decide what needs changing. We will give our advice and listen to what you want in order to achieve the best possible result.

We don't just provide the standard made to measure service i.e. a simple length adjustment. These existing patterns we work from can be altered to suit each person, whether it be more or less at the shoulders, chest, waist, thighs, the list goes on. We will simply do whatever is required for the best possible fit.

You will only have one appointment at the beginning. There is no need for a fitting during the making process, therefore the next point of contact is when the garments are ready.

This is how we differ from bespoke tailoring - with bespoke, a pattern has to be made up for you, which then requires you to have fittings during the making process. This in turn takes up more of your time and also means that you end up paying far beyond the cost of our made to measure tailoring service, for essentially a very similar garment.

After 35 years we have perfected the way we operate for the best possible result. We provide more than your standard made to measure service, as we can offer changes in the fitting and details of all garments. This makes us fall somewhere in-between made to measure and bespoke tailoring, while still managing to offer our service at the same price as made to measure.

If you are coming to Lairg to our high street location, as the demand for our tailoring & retail continues to grow, we do not want you to arrive and be disappointed that we are not available to give you the best service.

We (Iain & Narida) work as a team to give you the best results in your garments, but are not always available together. Therefore we have adopted an appointment only system to avoid disappointment, especially if you have driven, or indeed flown, some distance to come and see us.

please email us at sstc@live.co.uk
or
call us on 01549-4022229
(We can't always get to the phone, so please leave a message)

Click on the images below or the drop down menu above to find out more about our gents tailoring, distance tailoring and tailoring prices.

Notice About Instore CCTV
Please be advised, all retail areas within our high street store are covered by CCTV and record 24 hours a day. Complying with UK law sound is NOT routinely recorded. However, in certain circumstances (permitted by law) to protect staff members in the event there are rude, threatening and/or abusive customers the recording of sound is switched on. Sound is also recorded during tailoring appointments, this is to protect staff as the measuring process requires some physical contact/touch of the customer.
There is no CCTV in any changing areas.