Britain: The gentlemen tailors of Savile Row
By DW
11 October 2022 |
10:38 am
Britain's well-dressed business community has new taste for color and style since the end of COVID lockdowns. That's good news for custom-tailored suits – and bad news for home-office sweatpants.
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