A closer look at SRBA member Chittleborough & Morgan’s contribution to June’s The English Gentleman at Lord’s, an exquisite, stunningly tailored tribute to Tommy Nutter, one of the great innovators and stylists of Savile Row.

Joe Morgan, who founded the tailoring house that bears his name with Roy Chittleborough in 1981, started off as an assistant cutter with the legendary Nutter in 1970, and much of what he learnt is evident in the suit here. “We call this our NSR: Nutters of Savile Row,” he says. “It’s a ‘combination suit’, something we did in the old days. The colour tones have to blend, otherwise it wouldn’t work.”

The coat (top picture) is made from a plain grey Loro Piana 15.5 micron Super 170s wool, the waistcoat (middle picture) from the same cloth in a windowpane check and the trousers (not pictured) from another Loro Piana cloth from the same range in a grey chalk stripe.

“Tommy Nutter was different,” concludes Joe. “The concept of what he did has stayed with me and our ethos at Chittleborough and Morgan is the same as his.”