Cotswold Tailor — Bespoke Tailoring in Cirencester

Barrington Ayre is a bespoke tailor and shirtmaker on Market Place, Cirencester, in the heart of the Cotswolds. We have been cutting suits, tweeds and country clothing for Cotswold gentlemen and women since 2008.

If you are looking for a Cotswold tailor, you will find us in the old wool town of Cirencester, the capital of the Cotswolds. Our showroom and workroom are on Market Place. You can be measured, choose your cloth and have every fitting in the same place.

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Why choose a Cotswold tailor

The Cotswolds have been tied to cloth for eight hundred years. Medieval Cirencester grew rich on wool, and some of Britain's finest woollen mills still work nearby. A tailor here knows what Cotswold life asks of clothing: tweed that copes with a wet shoot, a suit for a wedding in a Cotswold-stone church, a jacket for Cheltenham races or the point-to-point.

What we make

Bespoke suits

Business suits, wedding suits, morning dress and dinner suits, each cut to your measurements and finished with working cuffs and hand-finished details.

Tweed and country clothing

Shooting suits, hacking jackets, waistcoats, plus twos and breeks in tweeds from British mills. We have even made tweed ski suits for the Alps.

Overcoats

Balmacaan, Ulster, officer, car and trench coats and peacoats, all made to your own design and in your choice of fabric.

Shirts

Barrington Ayre is a shirtmaker as well as a tailor. We make bespoke shirts in fine cottons, with your choice of collar, cuff and fit.

Ladies' tailoring

Bespoke suits, jackets, coats, trousers and dresses for women, from boardroom tailoring to country tweeds.

Caps, capes and accessories

Bespoke tweed flat caps and baker boy hats, wax capes with tweed linings, gilets and knitwear. Gift vouchers are also available.

Cloth from the Cotswolds and beyond

We work with some of the best mills in Britain. We are especially proud of our connection with William Bliss Cotswold Country Tweed, a heritage cloth woven at the Chipping Norton Tweed Mill and connected to Fox Brothers. It is about as close to a true Cotswold tweed as you can get. In the showroom you can handle the cloth and compare weights before you choose.

Tailoring as seen on television

Barrington Ayre made Claudia Winkleman's brown herringbone tweed suit for the new series of The Celebrity Traitors. It was cut in our Cirencester workroom from William Bliss cloth. We have also made bespoke clothing for James Blunt. Over the years our clients have included well-known names from sport and television, alongside the Cotswold families who have come back to us for more than fifteen years.

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How the bespoke process works

1. Consultation. Come to the showroom, or we come to you. We talk through what the garment is for, the style and the cloth.
2. Measuring. We take a full set of measurements and note your posture and preferences.
3. Fittings. Your garment is cut and fitted on you, then adjusted until it is right.
4. Delivery. Most garments are ready in around eight weeks from order.

A tailor for the whole of the Cotswolds

Clients come to our Cirencester showroom from across the Cotswolds and further afield, and our visiting tailor travels to clients around the UK. We regularly look after clients in:

• Cirencester
• Tetbury
• Stroud
• Cheltenham
• Gloucester
• Malmesbury
• Fairford
• Lechlade
• Burford
• Bourton-on-the-Water
• Stow-on-the-Wold
• Moreton-in-Marsh
• Chipping Norton
• Chipping Campden
• Broadway
• Painswick
• Bath
• Swindon
• Oxford
• Northleach

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