The first Pre-Apprenticeship Bespoke Tailoring students at The London Academy of Bespoke (LAB) continue to make excellent progress and are now eight weeks into the three-month course.

In their making classes, the students have completed their first plain baste coat and are now working on pockets. And in their drafting classes, they are now working on trousers.

Ensuring the future of handcrafted tailoring on Savile Row is a prime objective of the Savile Row Bespoke Association (SRBA) and it gives us great pleasure that three of the ten students on the course are being supported by bursaries provided by the SRBA and its members.

Each of the three students was interviewed by Simon Cundey and Keith Levitt of SRBA member house Henry Poole as a part of the application process and impressed hugely with their ultimate desire to study the craft of bespoke tailoring and go on to practice and master it on Savile Row.

LAB is the official training partner of the SRBA and the Pre-Apprenticeship course has been designed to give students a good grounding in the craft of bespoke tailoring before they seek in-house apprenticeships with SRBA members and other tailoring houses.

Full details of the SRBA apprenticeship scheme can be found here.