Soboye
The Midnight Peak-Lapel Dinner Suit
For: Black tie — an awards dinner, a gala, a winter wedding after seven
Midnight blue reads blacker than black under chandeliers, and a silk-faced peak lapel is the one detail worth paying for. This is the correct answer to a black-tie invitation.
- Colour
- Midnight blue
- Cloth
- Midnight barathea with silk-faced peak lapels
- Cut
- Jacket to mid-seat
- Detail
- Silk peak lapel, braided trouser stripe, one button
Indicative UK market range: £1,400–£2,800
On your frame
- Broad / muscular — Wide peak lapel, no shoulder padding, and one button placed at the natural waist.
- Tall and lean — Keep the jacket long enough to cover the seat and the trouser full to the shoe.
- Compact — Shorten the jacket, raise the trouser to the true waist, and skip the cummerbund.
- Fuller figure — Open quarters, a lower button stance, and a cummerbund rather than a waistcoat.
What to do next
01 — The introduction
If this is the shape you want, tell me the occasion and date and I will point you at the right house for it.
Tell me the occasion, the date and your budget bracket. Within 24 hours you get back: two or three houses I would actually approach and why those and not others, the alterations to insist on for your build, a realistic timeline for your date, and a short written brief you can hand to the tailor at the first fitting.
- No fee, no commission, nothing sold here.
- If nobody I trust fits your date or budget, I say so.
- Read by me, answered by me.
02 — If the date is further off