A Gentleman's London, Episode Ten: Dunhill

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  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

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  • @Finny14754
    @Finny14754 7 місяців тому +33

    When I was an apprentice electrician ( 34 years ago ) feel old now . The company I did my apprenticeship with J Wesley’s electrical, Hitchin , we used to do loads of the Tailors and Dunhill . I used to love working in these buildings and iconic English establishments.

    • @glenoh88
      @glenoh88 7 місяців тому +2

      You feel older! You can never feel old, because no one has a reference until we invent time machines 😆

  • @nicolasb.henry294
    @nicolasb.henry294 6 місяців тому +5

    Just discover this channel and absolutely love it as I love London for its classic Taylor shops and this so British elegance.

  • @scottscottsdale7868
    @scottscottsdale7868 6 місяців тому +3

    I saw a Dunhill exhibition at Harrods around 1993. It was enthralling. Love the shop in Manhattan. Love this video.

  • @brookminx5837
    @brookminx5837 5 місяців тому +3

    Love this series!

  • @silasmoser301
    @silasmoser301 7 місяців тому +20

    Thank you. I love this series.

  • @Kennybooy9
    @Kennybooy9 4 місяці тому +12

    Story time…. In 1982, many many years ago I was given a Dunhill cigarette lighter from my new employer Carreras Rothmans. It was beautiful. Solid gold and burgundy Onyx. I took this lighter into Dunhill to be engraved with my name. They quoted me £46. Shocked at the cost, I commented that I could have this engraving done for under £5 at a jeweler close by. The assistant replied… Sir. Here we engrave… there they scratch…. 😂😂😂😂

  • @i.o.3563
    @i.o.3563 7 місяців тому +7

    This one is a particularly good one. I'd like to see this house even in more details. Remarkable place for such an amazing brand. If I'm remember correctly, they have spa and barbers there too.

    • @richardichard4237
      @richardichard4237 7 місяців тому +1

      And cinema....

    • @Ecojock
      @Ecojock 7 місяців тому

      @@richardichard4237 Thank you for another entertaining video. Do you know if Dunhill will ever reissue their Dunhill 2003 fragrance. It was such a standout fragrance.

  • @jasonchadwell5257
    @jasonchadwell5257 7 місяців тому +8

    Very glad to see a dispatch from Dunhill's tailoring division, but would love to see a post on their iconic lighters.

  • @gregsaveallgreen
    @gregsaveallgreen 7 місяців тому +11

    Very good, I've not seen any other content on Dunhill so this is very interesting.

  • @DavidS-iy8bb
    @DavidS-iy8bb 7 місяців тому +4

    Excited to see the jacket completed - what's the timescale?

  • @barrywa39
    @barrywa39 7 місяців тому +8

    Another wonderful video in the series Tom. Hoping that Terry doesn't get cross when he sees you getting measured by another tailor.

  • @downingbethune8758
    @downingbethune8758 7 місяців тому +4

    Another outstanding video. Thanks, Tom.

  • @rolandtraynor
    @rolandtraynor 7 місяців тому +4

    Love this channel ...

  • @zwpm
    @zwpm 7 місяців тому +2

    what a great channel....love it.

  • @haraldsulzmann3893
    @haraldsulzmann3893 7 місяців тому +3

    Always a pleasure!

  • @Kelvin71
    @Kelvin71 7 місяців тому +4

    Congratulations Mr Adams and best regards. Long time cutter at Kilgour.

  • @williamfahey6066
    @williamfahey6066 7 місяців тому +1

    Nice video. I look forward to the next one.
    Jeff

  • @aleksandarbrzic8351
    @aleksandarbrzic8351 7 місяців тому +1

    Great video! Good to see Dunhill active again, great stuff!

  • @rodsalvador3608
    @rodsalvador3608 7 місяців тому +1

    Cool! Have a closet full of MTM, one day hope to go bespoke. Process seems so intimidating.

    • @TheEldarGuy
      @TheEldarGuy 7 місяців тому +1

      Just one more step...

  • @markrushton1516
    @markrushton1516 7 місяців тому +4

    A lot of their products were made by other brands. Zegna made their clothing (or some of it). Pens by eg Japanese maker Pilot. Everything beautiful though

  • @monochromebluess
    @monochromebluess 7 місяців тому +2

    Look forward to part 2. Normally a dinner jacket would have a shawl collar. Given that it’s a DB I doubt you went down that route …… but the tailor did look at you with more than a quizzical glance at your thoughts !

    • @DavidS-iy8bb
      @DavidS-iy8bb 7 місяців тому +2

      DB works great with shawl collar

  • @iandugdale6366
    @iandugdale6366 6 місяців тому +6

    I feel very fogyish but I do wince at the term “tuxedo”. Perhaps it’s a generational thing but dinner suit / dinner jacket has always been my norm

    • @the.dirty.pigeon
      @the.dirty.pigeon 2 місяці тому +1

      It sounds right in the USA but I’d go with “dinner jacket” if I were in London.

  • @stevenwalker3486
    @stevenwalker3486 4 місяці тому

    Love your videos

  • @mrpeel3239
    @mrpeel3239 6 місяців тому

    May I ask who tailored Tom's blazer?

  • @charleswhinney3008
    @charleswhinney3008 7 місяців тому +1

    I get the feeling this has been cut short.

    • @DJL78
      @DJL78 7 місяців тому +1

      There are seven hours of Tom rambling incessantly that the editor cut out.

  • @mikewinston8709
    @mikewinston8709 7 місяців тому +2

    I wonder if Tom Chamberlin was in Tidworth in 1989 when his father was in the 3 and 8’s? …….🇬🇧

  • @taffdavies35
    @taffdavies35 7 місяців тому +2

    First thing I noticed was a very well fitting blazer with really bright buttons.

    • @BalmforthGG
      @BalmforthGG 6 місяців тому +1

      Yes but not regimental or naval. Better than faux regimental but still naked.

  • @justjacqueline2004
    @justjacqueline2004 7 місяців тому +1

    The secret of Dunhills are definitely their staff and strangely their customers.
    One of my bosses,who made some serious money (according to the inland revenue anyway) recently, is horrendously shy and retiring. So I tried to persuade him to a few tailors where he got as far as the front doors.Whilst the same scenario was playing out at Dunhills one of their customers struck up a conversation with him as he lingered at the door and walked him into the ready wear,where the wonderful staff took over and rigged him out from shockingly slobbish to utterly unrecognisable ,haircut shaved the lot. He got lucky with the customer and great staff now he is a painful acolyte .

    • @DJL78
      @DJL78 7 місяців тому

      You are consistently cringy. Every comment on every video. Total cringe.

  • @maxine2798
    @maxine2798 7 місяців тому +2

    the video is great but the thought of a wedding with a dresscode that insists on a waistcoat isnt.

  • @paulmcgee1867
    @paulmcgee1867 6 місяців тому +1

    Today they appear more Italian than English. Plus they have closed in Paris and Duke Street, so sad

  • @TheRacso2552
    @TheRacso2552 7 місяців тому +1

    Double breasted, three pieces are not uncommon for vintage lounge suits but for a dinner suits I’ve never heard of it! Interesting idea though!

  • @richardichard4237
    @richardichard4237 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for this. A few constructive comments; your videos are not long enough. " the tuxedo needs be midnight blue or black...! " ok well I'll have Aston Martin racing green then....no negotiation.
    Would love to see Dunhill's bespoke leather goods atelier....please...!! Racing green....you know I'm right....!

    • @Ecojock
      @Ecojock 7 місяців тому +2

      Sorry for the late response and long response.
      The reason why you have tuxedos made in midnight blue or black is because under artificial light (tuxes are to be worn, ideally at night) is that midnight blue appears 'black' and that black appears 'midnight blue'. I hope this helps.
      PS: Oddly enough, the reason why we have British 'racing green' is because in the early history of automobile racing each country was assigned or assumed a colour. Britain adopted green in 1903 and not the national colours of Union Jack - red, white, or blue because they had already been used by the USA, France, and Germany in previous years.

  • @charleswhinney3008
    @charleswhinney3008 7 місяців тому

    Sorry just noticed part 2 to follow.

  • @jeffhreid
    @jeffhreid 7 місяців тому

    Good video Tom

  • @BunnyWatson-k1w
    @BunnyWatson-k1w 7 місяців тому +2

    Henry Poole claims they invented the tuxedo.

    • @TheEldarGuy
      @TheEldarGuy 7 місяців тому +2

      Henry Poole was the King's tailor.

    • @paulmcgee1867
      @paulmcgee1867 6 місяців тому +1

      They made what was suggested to them

    • @TheEldarGuy
      @TheEldarGuy 6 місяців тому +1

      @paulmcgee1867 Sort of. There's a relationship with the tailor that is taken into account.
      A seasoned tailor takes what the customer is after to design the product. The King probably asked for a less formal outfit that sits between business and white tie formal that hencan wear to dinner.
      Followed by, "...by the way I need a second one made up for my guest." It's at this point we have a defined 'black tie' structure.

  • @abhirupdeb132
    @abhirupdeb132 7 місяців тому +1

    You'll be debuting it in America? Where? Streets of Hollywood?

    • @tfchamberlin
      @tfchamberlin 7 місяців тому +1

      Oddly enough, yes

    • @abhirupdeb132
      @abhirupdeb132 7 місяців тому

      @@tfchamberlin very well!! You'll look quite the thing in it!!🌹 I accept defeat on that back-fired piece of wit😂

  • @ernestwong221
    @ernestwong221 5 місяців тому +1

    Dunhill used to have a Dunhill home in Shanghai.

  • @Popunkwillneverdie
    @Popunkwillneverdie 5 місяців тому

    I think my grandfather is upset 😂

  • @Popunkwillneverdie
    @Popunkwillneverdie 5 місяців тому

    He looks furious

  •  7 місяців тому

    Their RTW is made in italy!!!!

  • @syrah96
    @syrah96 7 місяців тому +1

    years past, I pulled a double breasted tux out of a second hand shop in Seattle. sadly it no longer fits me

  • @w.adammandelbaum1805
    @w.adammandelbaum1805 7 місяців тому

    With your ensemble, Mr. Chamberlin, I find it difficult not to address you as "Commander Bond." ☺️

    • @DJL78
      @DJL78 7 місяців тому

      Get a life.

    • @w.adammandelbaum1805
      @w.adammandelbaum1805 7 місяців тому

      @@DJL78 I've had several, try one some time in lieu of jejune commentary.

  • @crustyzimmerman3324
    @crustyzimmerman3324 5 місяців тому

    I spot a soft Birmingham accent..

  • @secondhorizon
    @secondhorizon 7 місяців тому

    I like this, because, well ~ you really wouldn't understand ~ but, you should.

  • @Bad_Gnasher
    @Bad_Gnasher 7 місяців тому +33

    That tailor needs to change his barber.

    • @CaptainWillard830
      @CaptainWillard830 7 місяців тому +32

      How old are you? Son, one day when you grow up into a mature, confident, young man, you will not make such immature comments

    • @V.M.1991
      @V.M.1991 7 місяців тому +7

      And you need to change your brain...

    • @lolollolol5654
      @lolollolol5654 7 місяців тому +4

      i dont get it, whats wrong with it?

    • @w.adammandelbaum1805
      @w.adammandelbaum1805 7 місяців тому +1

      Somewhat reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Merely an observation not a criticism.

    • @jeffhreid
      @jeffhreid 7 місяців тому +1

      Why have a waistcoat with a DB dinner suit? Perhaps to take the coat off as needed?

  • @Popunkwillneverdie
    @Popunkwillneverdie 5 місяців тому

    What can I say 😂

  • @iainsanders4775
    @iainsanders4775 3 місяці тому

    I think he looks a bit like a younger Kier Starmer without the glasses. Advice - Don't ever wear them.

  • @DJL78
    @DJL78 7 місяців тому +4

    Tom talks too much and says nothing.

  • @aalexjohna
    @aalexjohna 7 місяців тому +6

    Tom comes out of the same establishment factory as Boris Johnson.
    A premium version, but an arse nonetheless.

    • @downingbethune8758
      @downingbethune8758 7 місяців тому

      Does someone have a gun to your head forcing to watch something you clearly don't enjoy?

    • @robertbishop2732
      @robertbishop2732 7 місяців тому +3

      And yet…here you are watching.

    • @gmack1426
      @gmack1426 7 місяців тому

      And yet Boris and Tom successful and popular ..

  • @sitbone3
    @sitbone3 7 місяців тому

    I was going to write a nasty comment about smoking, but I won't.

    • @waleed8530
      @waleed8530 7 місяців тому +7

      good because no one will care.

    • @w.adammandelbaum1805
      @w.adammandelbaum1805 7 місяців тому +1

      You might have made an ash out of yourself.😋

    • @sitbone3
      @sitbone3 6 місяців тому

      @@waleed8530 ...people dying of lung cancer might, ass hole.,

  • @CaptainWillard830
    @CaptainWillard830 7 місяців тому +1

    Beautiful content

  • @princedakkar2251
    @princedakkar2251 4 місяці тому

    The Scottish chap who runs the humidor at Dunhill is a total snob, completely ignored me in the humidor and showed total contempt for me likely because I wasn’t wearing a suit - I bought a fairly expensive stick and even then he was a bit of a prat.