Suits are back in fashion and Pat O'Mahony visits a Dublin tailor for a bespoke fitting.
Maurice Abrahams Tailoring has been designing and creating bespoke suits for men in Dublin since 1966.
Having started his training in Saville Row, Maurice Abrahams qualified from the Tailor and Cutter Academy in London in the 1950s. He worked in the United Kingdom before relocating to Dubin in the 1960s.
His son, master tailor Declan Abrahams offers presenter Pat O'Mahony advice on the type of fabric and style of suit.
Natural fibres, they’ll always perform and look that little bit sharper.
There has been a growing interest in bespoke suits and Declan Abrahams sees customers looking for something a little bit different.
Promoting themselves as bespoke tailors has attracted a lot of attention from overseas visitors. Declan Abrahams explains that bespoke comes from an old English word meaning,
The ability to make anything.
When measurements have been taken and cloth chosen, the tailors get to work. It takes about six weeks for a suit to be made.
This episode of 'Head To Toe’ was broadcast on 2 February 1990. The reporter is Pat O’Mahony.
'Head to Toe' was a weekly lifestyle programme which focused on clothes and fashion. 'Head to Toe' ran for 10 series between 1988 and 1997. The first show was aired on 21 October 1988 and was presented by Frances Duff, Mary O'Sullivan and Marty Whelan. Mary O'Sullivan described the show as "a magazine mix of everything to do with clothes, people, the rag trade in general, personalities, swap shops, the nostalgia scene, people's private collections, country shopping and dressing and budgets and even problems". (RTÉ Guide, 14 October 1988, p.6)
