Bespoke Banter - Thoughts from the Cutting Room
A few weeks back, we got the chance to chat with Darren and James over a tea break upstairs in the cutting room....
Off The Cuff
Get Dressed Up for a Night In
Every man should own a dressing gown. In fact, ideally, he will own at least two or three. There are classic, li...
The Hands Behind Our Shirts
Budd makes all of its bespoke and made to measure shirts and the large majority of our ready to wear shirt...
10 Things You'll Find On A Shirt Cutter's Board
Our bespoke shirt cutters work with a very specific and very personal set of tools, many of which require years ...
Darren Tiernan on the Art of Bespoke Shirts
London Craft Week returns to the capital for its fifth edition from 8-12 May 2019. Celebrating outstanding Briti...
The History Of The Diced Check
The diced check tie has long been a favourite at Budd and has roots with the company that are almost as old as ...
The History of the Budd Stripe
There are some things at Budd that never change, reassuring constants if you like; amongst them are the sound of...
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The Making Of The Budd Paisley
We have a long history of sourcing and stocking beautiful hand printed madder silks at Budd, which we regularly ...
London Craft Week - The Beaumont Series
London’s Beaumont Hotel has to be one of our favourite haunts in the city. When it opened in the Autumn of 2014 ...
The History of the Bank Collar
Here at Budd we can trace our lineage back to 1847 to Webster Brothers. Webster Brothers was founded in 1847 by...
The Raglan Sleeve Shirt
Introducing our Raglan Sleeve shirt, made from a pattern found in the Budd archives, this casual style shirt is...
The Evolution of Black Tie
Black Tie is widely seen as a particularly elegant code of dress; so it is difficult to imagine that it began li...
The History Of The Budd Stripe 2015
Budd’s exclusive house stripe shirt was originally designed in the 1920s. In those days it was made in silk and ...
The History of Fox Brothers
Fox brothers is a family business founded by Thomas Fox in Wellington in 1772 who had taken over the family busi...
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The History of the Cravat
The cravat, the ancient ancestor of the tie and the distant relative of the bow tie, is having somewhat of a ren...
A lesson in madder
We have a selection of new madder scarves and ties in the shop just in time for Summer. Our madder silk scarves...
White Tie - An Elegant History
White tie is the original formal dress code and is regarded as the highest level of elegance. It is traditional...
Mad About Moiré
The fabric Moiré is known for it's watered appearance and is produced mainly in silk, but also in wool, rayon an...
Our Andover Workshop
Our small workshop at Andover in Hampshire is responsible for sewing together our shirts, whether bespoke, made ...
Budd after the bomb
In April 1941, during WW2, St.James's was badly bombed. Dunhill, on the corner of Jermyn St, a few yards from Bu...