Sleevehead's Guide to Sicilian Tailors (3rd edition print, 2024)
Sleevehead's Guide to Sicilian Tailors (3rd edition print, 2024)
Sleevehead’s Guide to Sicilian Tailors (SGST) is the first and only comprehensive guide exploring the largely undiscovered world of Sicilian bespoke tailoring. It explains how Sicilian tailoring differs from other modern tailoring strategies and why it deserves to be known as the third major school of Western tailoring after London and Naples.
SGST profiles more than 30 tailors and artisans across Sicily and Italy including Milan, Palermo, Catania, Messina and Syracuse and smaller towns such as Acireale, Marsala and Ragusa, as well as other artisanal shops and services. Logistical and travel details are also included to plan your own sartorial trip.
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Contents
260 pages
300+ photos
Includes dust jacket
The hardcover version is full color featuring 80 lb paper.
The digital e-book can be found here.
Disclosure: This guide is based solely on visits, interviews and experience as a prospective or actual customer. No money, gifts, sponsorships or endorsements were made in exchange for inclusion in this guide.
In our digital age, we are fed a constant diet of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok updates by friends, colleagues and digital influencers with millions of followers.
People share anything and everything online. These days very little in terms of fashion and style is truly new or a secret. Women decide on the next handbag or #ootd by swiping on Instagram. Men get inspired by what other guys are wearing by browsing their feed of short videos and posts. Most of this is "free" and easy. Everything is see, click or buy.
Against that backdrop, writing a full-length book could be construed as either retro or out of step with the times.
I chose to write a book on Sicilian tailoring. Why? Because only a long-form narrative can do justice to the topic. My view is this: the deeper the secret, the more that needs to be told.
Sleevehead's Guide to Sicilian Tailors is the first and only guide to unlocking the last secret left in men's bespoke tailoring. That’s quite a statement but I truly believe it.
This is a sartorial story that cannot be told in a single tweet, post or reel, or even a hundred of them. Sicilian tailors have a tremendous story but no one has been willing to tell it. I remember thinking how shocked I was that tailors so skilled could be so unknown. So I decided to tell their story.
Sicilian tailors possess their own unique tailoring approach which I have elucidated more crisply in this new edition of #SGST.
After more than a dozen years of traveling, researching and personally commissioning bespoke clothes in Sicily, I sum up what I know and love most about Sicilian tailors and their Mediterranean stance to cutting and making superbly tailored clothes.
If you are truly serious about bespoke tailoring and masculine style, this is a secret you cannot miss out on.