5 Online Brands That Let You Buy Bespoke From Your Desk
Undandy
By cutting out retailers and keeping overheads to a minimum, Undandy is able to offer personalised Portuguese leather footwear at high street prices.
The company’s online builder allows you to design every element of your perfect shoe – from toe shape to style to monogramming on the sole – which it then handcrafts and delivers to your door two weeks later.
The only hard thing is exercising restraint and not designing a pair of gold-toed, patent leather brogues.
Available at undandy.com
The White T-Shirt Company
With something as simple as a tee, fit is everything. If your pocket doesn’t quite stretch to custom designs, the White T-Shirt Company is an excellent alternative, giving you the option to tweak the fit and design of its T-shirts, from figure-hugging to boxy, capped sleeve to wrist-length.
Each tee is also crafted in heavyweight, organic cotton, so it won’t lose its shape after a couple of spins in the washing machine.
Available at thewhitetshirt.com
ShirtbyHand
Shirt by Hand is one of a number of new online bespoke shirt companies that offer home delivery. But the difference here is that its tailors cycle to you for a 15-minute appointment, where they’ll measure you up for your perfect shirt.
You get to pick from a range of 120 fabrics and your designer will then help you choose every detail, from cuffs to placket buttons. It’s Savile Row service, at home.
Available at shirtbyhand.co.uk
Norton & Townsend
Getting a bespoke suit made takes a long time. First, you visit the tailor. Then you spend hours looking at fabric samples. Then there’s the measuring, the tweaking, and the final adjustments that demand yet more time away from your desk. Which is why Norton & Townsend come to you, talk you through styles as they measure you up, and then deliver a perfectly crafted suit six weeks later.