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London's Anglo-Italian tailoring house — soft-shouldered jackets and refined shirts. One-piece collar available on bespoke and made-to-measure.
Best for Anglo-Italian soft tailoring shirts
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Shirtmakers in London
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Anglo Italian offers a one-piece collar through its bespoke and made-to-measure service, alongside shirts within its soft tailoring range. Blackhorse Lane Ateliers makes shirts alongside denim garments at its Walthamstow factory, extending the workshop's production beyond jeans. Piccadilly Arcade's Budd Shirtmakers cuts bespoke shirts upstairs and sells ready-to-wear below, continuing a business established in 1910.
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Founded in Walthamstow in 2016, Blackhorse Lane Ateliers makes selvedge and organic-denim jeans in its own East London factory alongside chore jackets, shirts and related ready-to-wear. Shoppers can try the jeans at Coal Drops Yard, Soho or the Walthamstow factory outlet, and Blackhorse Lane offers free lifetime repairs on its own denim garments.
Best for Selvedge Denim, Jeans
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Budd has made shirts and sold haberdashery from Piccadilly Arcade since Harold Budd opened there in 1910 as the arcade's first tenant. The shop and cutting room stand at 3 Piccadilly Arcade, where bespoke and made to measure shirts are cut alongside a ready to wear range. The Budd collar and the Budd stripe remain house signatures, as do Madder silk ties.
Best for Bespoke and made to measure shirts from a 1910 Piccadilly Arcade shop
Budd has traded as a gentlemen's haberdashery and shirtmaker since 1910. That year Harold Budd opened at 4 Piccadilly Arcade, the first shop in an arcade completed the previous year. He took a ground-floor position to catch gentlemen passing between the clubs of Pall Mall and the establishments of Piccadilly. He built the shop's reputation on bespoke shirts cut and sewn by hand. Harold Budd laid down much of what still defines the house. The Budd collar and the Budd stripe are his, as are the Budd bow and a lasting fondness for Madder silks. By 1919 George Gershwin was naming Budd in a lyric for the Broadway musical La La Lucille. After the bombing of 1941, Budd was the first tenant to move back into the Arcade. The shop and cutting room now stand together at 3 Piccadilly Arcade. Bespoke and made to measure shirts are cut there for clients in London and at trunk shows in the United States. The tiny shop holds ready to wear shirts and nightwear as well as dresswear and a wall of ties. The staff are largely trained from within, and the house says there is little turnover among them.
Visit official site ↗London / Jermyn Street / Online
British shirtmaker founded in 1986 by Nicholas Wheeler as a student mail-order business at Bristol University; its first physical shop opened on Jermyn Street in 1997, and the flagship now sits at number 100.
Best for Value Jermyn Street shirting.
Charles Tyrwhitt was founded in 1986 by Nicholas Wheeler while he was a student at the University of Bristol. Increasingly critical of how his fellow students dressed, Wheeler decided he could make a better shirt himself, and spent around £300 on five thousand mail-order leaflets and a basic Amstrad word processor to get the business started. The company's name is drawn from Wheeler's own middle names — Charles Tyrwhitt — chosen partly as a nod to a family ancestor, Sir Hercules Tyrwhitt, said to have been killed on a bridge in Northumbria in 1067. The mail-order shirt business grew steadily through the 1990s before opening its first physical shop on Jermyn Street in 1997, placing it on a street with a long-standing association with British shirtmaking. The company's flagship store now sits at 100 Jermyn Street, and its shirts are made in its own factories using European fabrics, a manufacturing claim the company has maintained as it expanded into suits, ties and other menswear.
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Savile Row shirtmaker and tailor — royal warrants and bespoke excellence. One-piece collar available on bespoke shirt orders.
Best for Royal-warrant bespoke tailoring and the one-piece collar option on bespoke shirt orders
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Drake’s still makes its ties by hand at a dedicated East London factory, using constructions from ancient madder to knitted silk. The shops extend that haberdashery approach into shirts, jackets, knitwear and accessories.
Best for Ties and easygoing English shirts.
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Contemporary London shirtmaker — modern fits with traditional craftsmanship. One-piece collar available on bespoke and made-to-measure.
Best for Contemporary London shirting
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Heritage HouseLondon / Savile Row / Online
Savile Row institution with royal warrants — bespoke tailoring and shirt program. One-piece collar available on bespoke shirt orders. Established 1771.
Best for Bespoke Savile Row tailoring with royal warrants and one-piece-collar shirts, since 1771.
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Family-owned Jermyn Street shirtmaker (1949) — bold Bengal stripes and proper English cut.
Best for Striped Jermyn Street classics.
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Jermyn Street since 1913 — inventor of the backless waistcoat, keeper of accessible English shirts.
Best for Sharp-value English shirts.
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Heritage HouseLondon / Savile Row / Online
The founding tailor of Savile Row — bespoke shirts cut to match the tailoring, one-piece collar on request. Established 1806.
Best for The founding tailor's shirts
Visit official site ↗Hilditch & Key
Heritage HouseLondon / Jermyn Street / Online
Jermyn Street shirtmaker founded 1899 by Charles Hilditch and W. Graham Key; rebuilt after Blitz bombing damage and now trading from Jermyn Street. Karl Lagerfeld was a longtime customer said to own over 1,000 of its shirts.
Best for Classic English two-fold cottons.
Hilditch and Key was founded in 1899 by Charles F. Hilditch and W. Graham Key, both previously trained at the Duke Street shirtmaker Harman's. The business opened first on Tottenham Court Road before relocating to Jermyn Street and opening a Paris branch on Rue de Rivoli in 1907. Its original Jermyn Street premises were destroyed during the Blitz; the firm operated from temporary quarters before moving permanently to number 39. The shirtmaker became known among a bespoke-menswear clientele that reportedly included Karl Lagerfeld, said to have owned more than 1,000 of the brand's high-collared shirts. Now past its 125th year, Hilditch and Key continues to operate from Jermyn Street, combining bespoke and made-to-measure shirtmaking with ready-to-wear.
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Heritage HouseLondon, UK
Savile Row tailor at 11 Savile Row, London, tracing to an 1809 breeches-making business; became H. Huntsman & Sons under Henry Huntsman in 1849, earned its first royal warrant in 1886, and moved to Savile Row in 1919.
Best for Legendary tailoring, heritage; iconic Savile Row bespoke shirts
Savile Row's one-button power. Since 1849 the house has cut with hunting-pink heritage in its cloth rooms and a silhouette so distinct the movies borrowed it — Kingsman was built on this shop. One button, high armholes, and the conviction that a jacket should stand at attention even when its wearer doesn't.
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Jake Wigham's brainchild — handmade in Soho, boxy mid-century-inspired Oxford button-downs. Also offers one-piece collar shirts made-to-order with a lead time of two to four weeks.
Best for Boxy mid-century Oxford button-downs and one-piece collars
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Savile Row tailoring house — refined English style and bespoke shirt program. One-piece collar available on bespoke commission.
Best for Refined Savile Row bespoke shirts
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Founded by Luke Walker, former menswear designer at Lanvin and Dunhill. The signature 'Come-Up-To-The-Studio' shirt features an unlined point collar; one-piece collar available on custom request.
Best for Military-meets-luxury shirting
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Eton's outfitter since 1865 — flamboyant gowns, silk dressing robes, and proper shirts. Famed too for embroidered velvet slippers and silk dressing gowns.
Best for Peacock-English shirts and robes.
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Savile Row institution with a ready-to-wear one-piece collar shirt program — including the Blue Stripe Linen one-piece collar shirt. Ready-to-wear and bespoke options.
Best for Savile Row one-piece collar shirts
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Head shirtmaker at Savile Row's Huntsman & Sons. Over 1,000 bespoke shirting options including one-piece collar.
Best for Bespoke shirts with over 1,000 shirting options, including one-piece collar
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The label works from a century-old workshop on Boundary Street, where design and development remain compactly organised. Its detailed journal explains garment construction, cloth choices and pattern changes rather than presenting only seasonal lookbooks.
Best for UK-cloth, UK-made shirts.
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London bespoke shirtmaker — traditional English cutting with modern sensibility. One-piece collar available on bespoke and made-to-measure.
Best for Modern English bespoke shirts
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London shirtmaker founded in 1898 by Thomas Mayes Lewin and Geoffrey James Lewin, moved to Jermyn Street in 1903; went into administration twice (2020, 2022) before being rescued and continuing to trade online.
Best for City-of-London staples.
T.M. Lewin was founded in 1898 when Thomas Mayes Lewin, in partnership with Geoffrey James Lewin, opened a shop on Panton Street in London; the business relocated to Jermyn Street in 1903, then the center of English shirtmaking, and Thomas Mayes is credited with pioneering the pre-styled 'coat shirt.' The company built its own manufacturing facility in Southend in 1987, though it later moved toward sourcing fabric globally. The brand has had an unstable recent history: it went into administration in June 2020, closing all 66 UK stores and laying off around 700 staff, was rescued, then went into administration again in 2022 before being bought out a second time by its main lender, Petra Group.
Visit official site ↗London / Jermyn Street / Online
Jermyn Street shirtmaker known for bold colours and proper English styling. One-piece collar available on made-to-measure and custom orders.
Best for Bold Jermyn Street shirting
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Turnbull & Asser's flagship occupies 71–72 Jermyn Street in London's St James's, where the house has traded since 1903. The shop carries classic and seasonal clothing alongside shirts and accessories, with original fittings still part of the interior. Customers seeking bespoke shirts should distinguish this flagship from the separate Bury Street service described by the house.
Best for Shirts and menswear on Jermyn Street
Turnbull & Asser's Jermyn Street flagship presents the house through shirts and the clothes worn with them. The shop has occupied 71–72 Jermyn Street since 1903, and original fittings remain part of the interior. That date belongs to the move into this building, rather than to the beginning of the company. The current collection brings classic pieces together with seasonal clothing and accessories, allowing a visit to extend beyond a single shirt.
The house describes shirt and tie production through its Gloucester and Sidcup factories and the work of their cutters and sewers. That account gives a more precise sense of manufacture than treating everything on the shop floor as British-made. It also separates production from the services offered at each London address. The Jermyn Street shop is the flagship for viewing the collection, while the bespoke shirt service described by the house operates on Bury Street. Decide which kind of purchase you have in mind before arranging a visit, particularly if the aim is to commission rather than buy ready-to-wear.
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