A peek at P.Johnson’s current lookbook. Founder Patrick Johnson left his native Australia to study fashion at St. Martins and eventually found himself under the apprenticeship of English tailor, Robert Emmett.

Schooled in the ways of Savile Row, Patrick took his new found skills back to his homeland and began his label. The serious business of the bespoke suit is injected with a bit of good humour, offering a more approachable service Patrick manages to balance modern and classic brilliantly. Aside from the sinister masks, the choice of colours and fabrics and that perfect cut are what really caught our eye.

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Bally offer up endless personalised possibilities with their bespoke Scribe service. This is a chance to invent your own shoe based on some of their classics from the archives. A range of hides, brogueing, colours and styles are available to order.

Perfectionists and control freaks this is a chance to get the shoe you’ve been dreaming of, whether it’s something understated and simple or a more ostentatious vision you’ve been harbouring. The choice is yours. Built to last,  everything comes with Goodyear welting, hand-dyed leather uppers, mutiple stitching as well as full leather lining, all embossed with the Bally crest inside.

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Maybe the start of something aggressive from Dr. Martens. Their current installation at Dover Street Market features two styles: the 1460 8-eye boot and the 1461 3-eye shoe, which can be ordered to your exact specs. And yes, you can use ostrich if you like. Make them boots all yours. Available by appointment only in the basement of DSM from October 5-26.

More looks after the click.

Reading up today on GQ UK’s “Style Shrink,” we learn about a bespoke glove maker in England who will help fit your hand into the perfect, custom glove. “Another option is to visit chesterjefferies.co.uk, a Dorset-based glove maker who can deal with bespoke orders online. Simply choose the style you like then upload a tracing of your hands. There is a one-off charge of £20 for the first order, and your pattern will be kept on file for future orders. If you have trouble uploading you can send the tracing of your hand through the post.” Others offer the service as well.

More looks at the Chester Jefferies “Bespoke” Glove Service after the click.

Sneaking this giveaway in on this lovely Friday. We hope the snow in Europe is not keeping anyone down. Rizzoli kindly  will deliver one copy to a lucky winner.

Rizzoli taps into the world of bespoke with a new book from James Sherwood on the street and its tailoring legacy. Bespoke: The Men’s Style of Savile Row is “a fully illustrated history of bespoke tailoring—the custom-made men’s clothing that made a small London street a globally known brand to generations of sartorial connoisseurs. Savile Row is renowned for fine custom tailoring… Bespoke charts Savile Row’s contribution to fashion and culture chronologically and features twenty-six profiles of today’s master tailors from historic firms such as Gieves & Hawkes and Henry Poole to more recent ones like Nutters and Ozwald Boateng, who was the first Savile Row tailor to stage a catwalk show in Paris.”

How to win:

Join the Selectism on Facebook and leave a message on our Rizzoli “Bespoke” Book discussion page.

Good luck. Winner will be chosen on December 10th.

Other Selectism Holiday Giveaways:

• Seavees Shoes of your choice! (ends Dec 8, 2010)
• Rapha Gift Pack (ends Dec 6, 2010)

Rizzoli taps into the world of bespoke with a new book from James Sherwood on the street and its tailoring legacy. Bespoke: The Men’s Style of Savile Row is “a fully illustrated history of bespoke tailoring—the custom-made men’s clothing that made a small London street a globally known brand to generations of sartorial connoisseurs. Savile Row is renowned for fine custom tailoring… Bespoke charts Savile Row’s contribution to fashion and culture chronologically and features twenty-six profiles of today’s master tailors from historic firms such as Gieves & Hawkes and Henry Poole to more recent ones like Nutters and Ozwald Boateng, who was the first Savile Row tailor to stage a catwalk show in Paris.”

Available now from Amazon.

Meet Jeff Jones, a mountain bike builder and one of six bicycle makers highlighted in the Museum of Arts & Design exhibition Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle.

On view through August, 15, 2010, the exhibit is not to be missed. Absolutely fantastic. (Surprisingly so, as I am not particularly keen on MAD).

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The Museum of Arts and Design gets in on the bicycle craze today with the opening of Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle. Six renowned frame builders (including Jeff Jones, Dario Pegoretti, and Sacha White) are on display. In all, there are 21 bicycles, selected by curator Michael Maharam (owner of the eponymous textile firm), each chosen to reflect the intersection of art, craft, and design inherent to the beauty of custom bicycle manufacture.

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Despite the seeming simplicity of their form and mechanics, bicycles offer a unique challenge to their makers. Rider and machine meet at three contact points-saddle, handlebar, and pedal. The custom builder’s chief preoccupation is with fit; simply taking a rider’s measurements may require more than two hours for a single commission. Every bicycle is a highly refined piece of engineering.

Custom bicycle building involves master metalwork: bending, welding, carving and wrapping steel, titanium, aluminum and carbon. A graphic artist’s eye is required in the application of paint and decorative flourishes. The custom models exhibited in Bespoke are the virtuosic productions of individual makers who lavish great attention on detail. The resulting product reflects the builder’s sensibility paired with the rider’s unique needs, turning the custom bicycle into a work of art.

If interested the exhibition is up at MAD until August 15, 2010.

While we like our fashiony fashion as much as the next man, we also appreciate the classics. So we had to show you the George Cleverley workroom tour that Men’s Flair recently did. Although they’re not as well known as Church’s and the like, Cleverely are the preferred shoe of the Row. They’re also one of the few who still make their shoes from start to finish in London.

But shoemaking involves dust and aprons, real physical exertion as the leather is stretched and nailed over a last – or a wooden block is whittled down. Both were going on at Cleverley when I visited, and the experience conjures up what traditional English workshops were like back in the days when Cleverley was founded.

Read the full feature here.

The Bespoke Column on Esquire UK discusses the shirting of Frank Foster. “I went to meet Frank in his basement atelier/ storeroom in London’s St. James and was impressed by what he said, and, daftly, by the fact that he used to make shirts for Cary Grant. Impressed enough to place an order, which was quite a leap of faith given that the shirts are £125 each, there’s a minimum order of five and you have to pay up front.”

One more look at the Frank Foster Bespoke Shirts after the jump.