{"id":1857,"date":"2013-05-14T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T08:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2013-05-14T12:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T09:13:47","slug":"interview-with-james-cottrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/interview-with-james-cottrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with James Cottrell"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I am 61 years old and the owner and cutter of Welsh & Jefferies. When I was 16 years old I started as an apprentice in Kilgour, in Savile Row, and trained there for 5 years. I have 3 daughters who see me as their personal tailor. I first became interested in clothing through my sister\u2019s husband who is a womenswear pattern cutter. He would bring home patterns and I would sit and watch him creating the patterns. I decided to give that a go and found the apprenticeship in Savile Row. At that time was more common for men to have their clothes made rather then buying them from a ready-to-wear shop. And until today you still have customers who are faithful to their cutter. So bespoke tailoring was, and in my opinion still is, a very attractive field to go into.<\/p>\n\n\t\t