How Much Does a Bespoke Suit Cost in London?

What London houses publish

Most tailors quote on request, but several publish their starting prices. Read on their own sites in September 2026: Graham Browne, in the City, starts bespoke two-piece suits at £1,700. Cad & The Dandy starts at £1,800 for a two-piece, with bespoke shirts from £200. Steed, working in the Savile Row manner, lists £5,500 for a two-piece and £6,600 for a three-piece, before VAT. Huntsman, on the Row itself, states that bespoke starts from £7,500.

That is a fourfold spread inside one city, and every one of those houses is making a garment to an individual pattern. The difference lies in where the work is done, how much of it is by hand, and what the name carries.

The three price bands

Between roughly £1,700 and £2,500 sit the City and independent makers. You get a cut pattern, fittings, and a garment made to you, usually with more of the sewing done off site.

Between roughly £2,500 and £5,000 sit the off-Row houses and Savile Row-trained cutters working under their own names. Often the same training and hands as the Row, with less overhead behind the price.

From roughly £5,500 upwards sit the Row houses themselves. Here you are paying for hand-cutting and hand-sewing by a named cutter, a house pattern refined over generations, and an archive that can reproduce a suit you ordered twenty years ago.

What moves the number

Cloth is the variable you control most. A worsted from a mill's standard book costs a fraction of a lightweight cashmere or a vintage length, and the same house will quote very differently on each.

Handwork is the variable you see least and pay for most. A fully hand-padded canvas, hand-sewn buttonholes and a hand-set collar take hours that a machine does in minutes.

Extras add up faster than people expect. A second pair of trousers is not a small addition: Steed lists bespoke trousers at £1,400 on their own price list. A waistcoat turns a two-piece into a three-piece for a similar step.

VAT is worth checking before you compare two quotes. Some houses list prices exclusive of it, which is a 20 percent difference on the figure you actually pay.

Bespoke against made-to-measure, at the same house

The clearest way to see what bespoke costs is to compare the two services inside one house. Steed lists made-to-measure from £2,000 for a two-piece and handmade bespoke at £5,500. Same tailor, same cloth books, roughly £3,500 between them.

That gap buys an individual pattern cut from scratch rather than a block adjusted to you, more fittings, and a garment that can be remade as your shape changes. Whether it is worth it depends on how far your shape sits from a standard block, and how much you will wear the suit.

What to ask before you commit

Ask what the quoted price includes: how many fittings, whether alterations later are free, whether the figure includes VAT, and what a second pair of trousers costs.

Ask who cuts the pattern and where the garment is made. Both are fair questions, and a good house answers them plainly.

Ask what happens if the finished suit is not right. The answer tells you more about a house than any price list.