Founder SRBA member Meyer & Mortimer continued what has become a distinct tradition with its recent appearance on BBC1’s The One Show.

The Sackville Street tailors are one of the very few in and just off Savile Row to maintain a frosted glass frontage, something originally designed with discretion in mind that has now become a great attraction to film crews looking for a traditional tailors’ shop location.

The 2008 Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais scripted British bank heist production The Bank Job, which was set in 1971, is just one of a number of productions to have filmed in and outside Meyer & Mortimer.

The purpose of The One Show’s visit to Sackville Street was to look at the evolution of the modern day suit, something that Meyer & Mortimer played an enormously important part in. The tailors were the trouser makers to Beau Brummel, the Regency dandy who is widely credited with inventing the suit as we know it today.

The One Show presenter Gyles Brandreth interviewed Ian Kelly, the author of the acclaimed biography Beau Brummel: The Ultimate Dandy. “They wanted to discuss the frock coat and the appearance of knickerbockers and how they became the suit of today,” says Meyer & Mortimer Director Paul Munday. “They filmed here because Beau Brummel had his trousers designed and made here, though the shop was on Conduit Street at the time. They were tight trousers with footstraps and would have been made of a riding material; a heavy barathea or whipcord.”

The interview took place against a backdrop of four resplendent new scarlet uniforms that Meyer & Mortimer have just made by Royal Appointment for the Military Knights of Windsor, Her Majesty The Queen’s bodyguard at Windsor and the oldest British order of chivalry, which dates back to 1348. Meyer & Mortimer have held Her Majesty’s warrant for military tailoring since her Coronation in 1952.

Meyer & Mortimer’s vast experience in military tailoring and its historic relationship with Beau Brummel are both clearly reflected in its current house style of civilian tailoring, which Paul Munday describes as, “cavalry style, close fitting and flared. It’s a style that Beau Brummel instigated when he turned military trousers into civilian wear.”