Savile Row Tailors Keep Office Hours and Sell a Ten Week Wait

The first thing to know about Savile Row tailors is not who is best. It is that the street keeps office hours.

Anderson & Sheppard publish theirs plainly: half past eight in the morning to five in the afternoon, Monday to Friday. Not Saturday. Not Sunday. A visitor who saves the famous tailoring street for the weekend will walk the length of it past closed doors.

The second thing is that you cannot buy a bespoke suit on a short trip. Anderson & Sheppard require a minimum of three visits from a new customer and quote eight to twelve weeks. What you can do in an afternoon is walk in without an appointment, talk to a cutter, and decide whether to come back.

Here is what each house publishes about itself, and what the money actually is.

The first one

Henry Poole & Co, 15 Savile Row

The house that made the street, and the one that invented the dinner jacket.

Henry Poole & Co

Address

15 Savile Row, W1S 3PJ

Nearest

Oxford Circus, six minutes. Piccadilly Circus, seven. Green Park, eight

Hours

Monday to Friday 9am to 5.15pm. The office answers enquiries from 10am to 5pm

Booking

020 7734 5985, or request an appointment through their site

Standing

Trading since 1806 and celebrating 220 years in 2026. Family owned through six generations of Cundeys, with Simon Cundey running it today

How to get in

Their own account is the clearest history of the street you will read. James Poole arrived in London in 1806 as a linen draper from Shropshire, was stitching military tunics with his wife Mary through the Napoleonic wars, and by Waterloo in 1815 was London’s pre-eminent tailor. His son Henry inherited in 1846, took his first royal warrant from Napoleon III in 1858 and his next from Queen Victoria in 1869, and it was his friendship with the future Edward VII that turned Savile Row into what it became. In 1865 Poole made the world’s first dinner jacket for that same Prince of Wales, which is the origin of the tuxedo. Their archive is 120 ledgers of customer orders running from 1846 to the 1950s, each over a thousand pages. Over 6,000 cloths are held in the shop and swatches can be ordered by post before you travel.

The one with the rules written down

Anderson & Sheppard, Old Burlington Street

Not actually on Savile Row, and the only house here that tells you how the whole thing works before you walk in.

Anderson & Sheppard

Address

32 Old Burlington Street, W1S 3AT. The haberdashery is around the corner on Clifford Street

Nearest

Oxford Circus or Piccadilly Circus, both about seven minutes

Hours

Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm. Closed Saturday and Sunday

Booking

020 7734 1420 or office@anderson-sheppard.co.uk. No appointment is needed to visit the London shop

Price

Not published. Their own answer is to telephone the shop. A 50 percent deposit is taken at the time of order with the balance due on delivery

Standing

Founded 1906, and the house that created the English Drape cut, a softer silhouette that broke from the rigidity of military dress

How to get in

Read their Popular Questions page before you go, because it is the most honest document on the street. A first time customer needs a minimum of three visits: one to choose cloth and trimmings, take measurements and settle the style, then two fittings. Eight to twelve weeks from start to finish, depending on the time of year. You will meet a front shop team member first, then two separate cutters, one for the coat and one for the trousers, who both measure you. No appointment is needed to walk in and talk, which is the single most useful fact on this page. They will repair and alter only garments they made, and they offer a fine draw service that reweaves moth holes. They also advise against frequent dry cleaning, because it strips the wool of its oil, and offer a sponge and press instead. Four trips a year to the United States, twice yearly to Seoul and Hong Kong, all by appointment.

The one that publishes prices

Huntsman, Savile Row

Since 1849, with a second atelier in New York and a price list you can read without telephoning.

Huntsman

Address

11 Savile Row, W1S 3PS. A second atelier at 130 West 57th Street, New York

Nearest

Oxford Circus, six minutes. Piccadilly Circus, seven

Booking

Bespoke by appointment through their booking form, for London or New York

Price

Ready to wear published on their own site: a navy 4ply London Shrunk single breasted suit at 3,300 pounds, a cashmere hairline check jacket at 3,295, a brown tweed Balmacaan overcoat at 2,950 and a tweed house overcheck jacket at 2,650. The cheapest suit on the rail is a navy wool hopsack at 2,495. Bespoke is quoted individually

Standing

Bespoke since 1849, and currently collaborating with Alexander McQueen on runway tailoring

How to get in

The useful thing here is that the ready to wear prices are published, which gives you a floor for what Savile Row cloth and cut costs before any bespoke quote arrives. Ready to wear suits run from 2,495 pounds for a navy wool hopsack to 3,300 for the navy 4ply London Shrunk. Bespoke sits above that and they will not say how far above until you ask. They also run made to measure as a middle option, and they cut bespoke for women as well as men, with women’s bespoke specialists named on the team, which is still unusual on this street. Bespoke here needs the appointment form first, unlike Anderson & Sheppard.

The one you can afford

Cad & The Dandy, Savile Row

Founded in 2008 and now, by its own account, the largest bespoke tailor on the Row.

Cad & The Dandy

Address

7 to 8 Savile Row, first floor, W1S 3PE, with shops also in New York and Stockholm

Nearest

Oxford Circus or Piccadilly Circus

Hours

Monday to Saturday 10am to 6pm. Closed Sunday

Booking

Through the appointment form on their site

Price

Fully bespoke two piece suit from 1,800 pounds, rising with the cloth. Bespoke overcoats from 1,900. Bespoke shirts from 200 for classic and 240 for dress, with no minimum order and reductions by volume

Standing

Founded 2008. Everything made by hand and entirely in house, never outsourced, with over 60 hours of work in each suit

How to get in

The only house checked here that publishes a bespoke price, which makes it the honest answer to what Savile Row costs: 1,800 pounds is the entry, and the number rises with the cloth you choose rather than with the service. The 60 hours figure is theirs and it is the best explanation of the price anyone on the street offers. They now publish both the address and the hours, first floor at 7 to 8 Savile Row, ten to six Monday to Saturday, so the door is findable, though the booking form is still how you get a cutter’s time. Note that their own pages give two different figures for the hand work in a suit: over 60 hours on the pricing page and over 70 on the Savile Row page.

What to know before you visit the Savile Row tailors

Go on a weekday. Anderson & Sheppard shut at five and do not open at weekends at all. This is a working street of cutting rooms, not a shopping parade, and it empties accordingly.

You do not always need an appointment. Anderson & Sheppard say plainly that one is not necessary to visit the London shop and discuss ideas. Huntsman want the form filled in first, and so do Cad & The Dandy, although they now publish shop hours of ten to six Monday to Saturday. If you have one free afternoon, that difference decides where you go.

Three visits, not one. A first bespoke commission means a measuring appointment and two fittings, over eight to twelve weeks. Nobody flies in and leaves with a suit. What travels is the order.

Expect two cutters, not a tailor. At Anderson & Sheppard the coat and the trousers have different cutters and both measure you. That division is the house system, and it is why the word tailor is misleading.

Half the money goes down at the order. A 50 percent deposit is standard, with the balance on delivery. Plan for that rather than for a single payment at the end.

The published price is not the bespoke price. Huntsman sell finished ready to wear suits from 2,495 to 3,300 pounds. Cad & The Dandy start bespoke at 1,800. Those two numbers are not in conflict, they are different products: one is made to a house pattern and one is made to yours.

Savile Row is not only Savile Row. Anderson & Sheppard are on Old Burlington Street and their haberdashery is on Clifford Street. The street runs parallel to Bond Street and the trade spills into the roads either side of it.

Everything here was taken from each house’s own published information and rechecked on 28 September 2026. Where a price is not published, that is stated rather than estimated. Cloth choice moves every bespoke figure, so treat all of them as a starting point and confirm before you order.

Oxford Street is five minutes north of the Row and keeps shop hours rather than workshop ones, running to nine or ten at night Monday to Saturday.

Hatchards opened on Piccadilly in 1797, nine years before Henry Poole, and by its own account has closed to customers exactly once since: not for either world war, but for the pandemic.

Spa days and private spas are the longer version of the same afternoon, a few streets away.

Where to go next

Sample sales are the discount route, and the page explains why the sale pages are so hard to find.

London dress codes is the page to read before you buy anything, because it sets out which rooms in this city still enforce a jacket and which have quietly stopped.

Jermyn Street is five minutes south and the practical answer to everything above. It opens on a Saturday, it publishes its prices, and it will sell you a shirt you can wear that evening. Turnbull & Asser there hold the King’s warrant, first granted to them in 1980.

The trades met in 2026: Huntsman and Truefitt & Hill, the oldest barbering business in the world, announced a fragrance together. The barbers guide has that chair and what it charges.

Mayfair is the district Savile Row sits in, and Harrods is the other end of London shopping in every sense: open seven days, and built for exactly the visitor Savile Row is not.

Shopping in London covers which streets are worth the day you actually have free, and the 1994 trading law that decides it.

For the evening the suit is for, the smarter restaurants and the Michelin starred rooms are where the dress codes actually bite.

Questions we get asked

Who are the best tailors on Savile Row?

It depends what you are buying. Henry Poole at number 15 is the oldest and the founding house of the street, trading since 1806. Anderson & Sheppard on Old Burlington Street created the English Drape cut and publishes the clearest account of how bespoke actually works. Huntsman has been cutting since 1849 and publishes ready to wear prices. Cad & The Dandy, founded 2008, is the largest bespoke house on the Row and the cheapest way in.

How much does a Savile Row suit cost?

Cad & The Dandy publish a fully bespoke two piece from 1,800 pounds, rising with the cloth, and put over 60 hours of hand work into each one on their pricing page, and over 70 on another of their own pages. Huntsman publish ready to wear suits from 2,495 to 3,300 pounds. Most houses, including Henry Poole and Anderson & Sheppard, do not publish bespoke prices at all and ask you to telephone. Expect a 50 percent deposit at the order.

Who is the oldest tailor on Savile Row?

Henry Poole & Co, at 15 Savile Row. James Poole set up in London in 1806 and his son Henry inherited the business in 1846, which is where the firm’s Savile Row story begins and why they describe themselves as the founders of the street. They marked 220 years in 2026, and their archive of customer ledgers runs unbroken from 1846 to the 1950s.

Do you need an appointment for Savile Row?

Not at every house. Anderson & Sheppard state that an appointment is not necessary to visit their London shop and talk through cloth and style with the front shop team. Huntsman and Cad & The Dandy both ask you to book through a form, though Cad & The Dandy now publish shop hours of 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday. Overseas fittings at all of them are by appointment only and fill up, so contact them early.

How long does a Savile Row suit take?

Eight to twelve weeks, and a minimum of three visits for a first time customer, which is what Anderson & Sheppard publish. The first appointment covers cloth, trimmings, measurements and style, and two fittings follow. The time of year affects it, so a suit ordered before a busy season will take longer than the quoted minimum.

What tailor does the King use?

No house on the Row advertises a current royal appointment on its front page, so any answer you read is secondhand. What is published is historical: Henry Poole’s warrant archive lists Napoleon III from 1858, Queen Victoria from 1869, Edward VII, George V, George VI, the Imperial Household of Japan and the Tsars of Russia, alongside clients including Charles Dickens, Churchill and de Gaulle. It stops at George VI.