The Cloth, Chosen First
At Mr. Fox, the cloth is chosen before anything else is decided. Weight, weave and fibre settle how a garment will move, hold its line, and age — not across a season, but across the years a man will wear it. We work across worsteds, shirtings, and Indian silks, each drawn from houses we trust and chosen against the cloth, the season, and the man.
The worsteds we cut
Our suiting cloth is drawn from Scabal, Dormeuil, Holland & Sherry, Vitale Barberis Canonico, Zegna, Hardy Minnis and Cacciopoli — houses whose wool has been trusted in fine tailoring for generations, chosen for how it drapes, breathes and settles with wear.
Qualities run from Super 110s to 180s. The count measures fineness, not simply quality — a higher number gives a softer, finer handle but asks to be worn with more care, while a lower one holds its structure and wears harder. We choose the count to the man and the garment, never by the headline figure alone.
A shirt considered as closely as a jacket
For shirting we work with Thomas Mason, Albini, Cacciopoli and Soktas — houses devoted to cotton the way our suiting mills are devoted to wool. Long-staple yarns, woven fine and even, hold a collar through years of laundering and keep their hand long after a lesser cloth has tired.
The choice runs from crisp poplins that take a sharp collar to softer twills and brushed cottons for cooler weather. A shirt is the cloth worn closest to the skin all day, and we treat that as reason enough to choose it with the same attention as a suit.
Weight chosen for the way you actually live
For the cooler months we turn to cashmere from Scabal and Zegna, and to flannel and Harris Tweed — cloth with the substance to hold a winter line and the warmth to earn its place.
For warmer conditions: Irish linen, wool-silk-linen blends and fine cotton, woven open to breathe and cut to stay composed through the heat. A wardrobe built this way carries a man through his whole year, not a single occasion in it.
Silk that belongs to the everyday, not only the occasion
Most of our silk is the matte, lived-in kind. Eri, soft and warm, wears like a fine wool and moves as easily through a working week as a celebration. Khadi silk, handspun with its own irregular texture, and geecha tussar, matte with a natural slub, sit just as comfortably in daily wear — silk worn without ceremony.
For the days that ask for more, the cloth answers. Mulberry silk brings a clean, even sheen, the most refined of the family. Raw silk holds body and a pronounced grain, the structure a bandhgala or achkan needs. Chanderi, sheer and fine, brings a light formality to warm-weather and ceremonial wear.
A garment in silk is worn to the days a man keeps — and worn again, across the years, long after the occasion has passed. We choose cloth that earns that permanence, at either end of his week.
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