I received this suit a few months ago and it has been at my tailor's for the last few weeks. I finally get to wear it. It is a Norton and Sons bespoke three button notched lapel with three cuff buttons (two functioning) and is a heavily constructed jacket. The pants have belt loops and two inward pleats - It fits great!
Walter Grant Norton opened a tailor shop in 1821 and it remained in the family unit Grant Norton left in 1963. Norton has a tradition of rugged outerwear thus it is no surprise that Norton and Son clothes were present when Lord Carnarvon opened Tutankhamon's tomb, when Stanly met Livingston, and when the Marquis de Vogue undertook his 'Voyage en Syrie st en Palestine.' Other notables include Baron von Richtofen and Chuck Yeager (pilots must fancy Norton). From Carey Grant, Sinatra, and Alfred Hitchcock, Norton and Sons have been clothing generations of gentlemen. I'm not sure who cut this particular pattern but head cutter John Kent holds a royal warrant for H.M.S. the Duke of Edinburgh.
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