57-59 High Street, Edinburgh
Bespoke kilt makers since 1986 — hand-sewn kilts in over 5,000 tartans, including the full Highland dress outfit.
Best for Hand-sewn kilts and full Highland dress
Dresses of United Kingdom
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Highland formal at one end of Britain, London tailoring at the other, with tartan running between them. Kinloch Anderson holds the Edinburgh line for Highland dress and tartan. Geoffrey (Tailor) Kiltmakers hand-sews kilts and full Highland dress in Edinburgh. Eudon Choi cuts tailored contemporary womenswear in London. Occasion decides the silhouette here, so the invitation matters more than the measurements. A kilt is ordered by the sett, the pattern naming the family.
Visit official site ↗Kinloch Anderson
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Kinloch Anderson has hand-made kilts, tartan trousers and Highland dress in Edinburgh since 1868 and holds a Royal Warrant. Its premises pair a shop with the workroom, offering sporrans, scarves, tartan throws and cloth by the metre.
Best for Highland dress and tartan
Visit official site ↗Edinburgh
William E Scott and Son manufactures sporrans, including dress, semi-dress, day and junior varieties, along with waist belts, buckles, kilt pins and skean-dhus, all made by craftsmen in Edinburgh.
Best for Handmade sporrans and highland accessories
Visit official site ↗Berkshire
Trading on Eton High Street since 1784, Tom Brown cuts bespoke and made-to-measure suits and has long supplied the town's schoolwear and academic dress. The workroom also produces silk ties, cufflinks, and accessories for Windsor and Eton clientele.
Best for Bespoke and made-to-measure menswear
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Merchant City
Independent vintage clothing shop founded in the 1990s in Glasgow's Virginia Galleries, now trading from Kings Court on King Street in the Merchant City. Stock includes antique wedding dresses, vintage bowling shoes and retro football tops.
Best for Long-running vintage clothing in Merchant City
Mr Ben Retro Clothing was founded in the 1990s in the Virginia Galleries in central Glasgow, an arcade of independent boutiques in the city's Merchant City district. The shop has since relocated to its current premises at Kings Court, 101 King Street, still within the Merchant City area, and has become one of the longest-running retro and vintage clothing stores in Scotland. Its stock spans an unusually wide range - antique wedding dresses, vintage bowling shoes, retro football shirts, fur coats, denim, jackets, jewellery and woollens - much of it labelled with the era and, in some cases, the origin of the piece.
Visit Instagram ↗Merchant City (Kings Court, King Street)
A vintage clothing shop in Kings Court, the courtyard off King Street near the Trongate, stocked with garments from the 1960s through the 1980s. Rails hold jackets, dresses, footwear and accessories alongside period Levi's, Converse and Dr Martens.
Best for 1960s-80s vintage clothing
Visit official site ↗London, UK
British outerwear house founded 1851 by John Emary in London, credited with early rain-repellent wool and trench-coat development; held royal warrants from 1897 and reportedly dressed Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher.
Best for Weatherproof outerwear; Club check pattern
Aquascutum was founded in London in 1851 by John Emary; the name combines the Latin aqua (water) and scutum (shield). The company is credited with early rain-repellent woollen cloth, the raglan sleeve, and development of the trench coat, which it supplied to British officers during both World Wars. It received royal warrants across several reigns, starting in 1897, and its coats are reported to have been worn by figures including Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. The brand has since changed hands multiple times and now operates partly through licensing arrangements.
Visit official site ↗London, UK
The Row’s ready-to-wear pioneer — machine-aided handwork heresy of 1935 that dressed Cary Grant.
Best for Traditional tailoring
Visit official site ↗Ede & Ravenscroft
Heritage HouseChancery Lane, London
Established in 1689 to make ceremonial robes for the coronation of King William III and Queen Mary II, Ede & Ravenscroft claims the title of London's oldest tailor and continues to dress the judiciary, clergy and universities in bespoke gowns from its Chancery Lane shop. Alongside legal and academic robemaking, the firm produces bespoke and ready-to-wear tailoring, holding Royal Warrants earned across more than three centuries of trade.
Best for Legal and academic robes, bespoke tailoring
Visit official site ↗Online / brand-level record
Eudon Choi is a London-based womenswear label known for tailoring that blends masculine cut with feminine sensibility. Collections span coats, dresses, tailored trousers, and knitwear sold direct at eudonchoi.com.
Best for Tailored contemporary womenswear by Eudon Choi
Eudon Choi is the eponymous womenswear label of the London-based, Korean-born designer, launched in 2009. Choi began his career designing menswear before turning that vocabulary — structured cuts, utilitarian details, vintage referencing — into ready-to-wear for women, a fusion that remains the label's signature: masculine tailoring softened by a feminine sensibility, expressed across coats, dresses, tailored trousers and knitwear. The approach earned early industry recognition, including the Fashion Scout Merit Award and the Elle Talent Launch Pad award in 2012. In 2017 the label expanded its reach with a collaboration for John Lewis, placing it alongside contemporaries such as Palmer//Harding in the department store's push toward emerging British design talent. The house remains a small independent operation — roughly five staff — run from Studio 7 in the Rose Lipman Building on De Beauvoir Road, London N1, a shared creative workspace rather than a public-facing shop. Eudon Choi has no standalone retail store of its own; the collections are sold through wholesale concessions at Fenwick, Harvey Nichols and John Lewis, through the independent boutique Salt, and direct via eudonchoi.com, which ships to the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United States and Canada.
Visit official site ↗London, UK
Ghost London launched four decades ago and makes women's contemporary clothing with a vintage feel. Its viscose fabrics are woven exclusively for the label, and its prints are designed in-house each season. Almost every garment is garment dyed, cut oversize in greige cloth and boiled so it shrinks and takes a deeper colour. The finished pieces can be machine washed at 30 degrees.
Best for Garment-dyed viscose dresses and separates with a vintage feel
Ghost London launched four decades ago and now works as an established house for women's contemporary clothing. Its collections keep a contemporary vintage feel, with feminine lines and modern silhouettes alongside signature garment dyed pieces. Every fabric is produced and woven exclusively for the label from viscose yarns, and every print is designed in-house each season in the same vintage-inspired spirit. The garment dye process defines the house. Each piece is first constructed in raw greige cloth and cut several sizes larger than its finished size. The made-up garment is then boiled at high temperature, shrinking as it takes the dye, which gives the viscose a softer, more fluid hand and a deeper colour than piece dyeing. The same process makes the clothes practical to own. Almost every garment, bridal wear included, can be machine washed at 30 degrees or washed by hand, then reshaped while damp and steamed on the reverse if needed. The range runs from tea dresses and slip dresses to separates and knitwear, together with a wedding collection that includes bridesmaid dresses, all sold from the label's own online shop.
Visit official site ↗Savile Row, London
The inspiration for Kingsman — the single-button jacket, the equestrian heritage, and the Savile Row house that dressed Gregory Peck and the Duke of Windsor.
Best for Single-button jacket, Kingsman inspiration, and the most cinematic tailor on the Row.
Visit official site ↗London / Online
East London label founded in Hackney in 2011 by designer Sunny Williams, a former tailor; built its reputation on the knitted 'Hockney' dress with David Hockney-inspired swirl prints, now stocked at Liberty and Selfridges.
Best for Hackney's slow-drop knitwear, led by the viral Hockney knit dress
House of Sunny started in 2011: designer Sunny Williams, who had previously worked as a tailor, began the label from a studio flat off Kingsland Road in Hackney, East London. Over roughly a decade it grew into a name carried by around 40 wholesale accounts including Liberty and Selfridges, with celebrity wearers such as Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Dua Lipa. The brand's signature product is the 'Hockney' dress - a fitted knitted slip or midi dress carrying abstract swirl patterns inspired by David Hockney's artwork. House of Sunny describes itself as a slow-fashion operation, releasing two seasonal collections a year in limited runs.
Visit official site ↗London, UK
LK Bennett is a British accessible luxury brand known for dressing Kate Middleton, offering elegant and polished.
Best for Polished, Royal Style
Visit official site ↗London, UK
ME+EM builds women’s wardrobes around precise cuts, strong fabrics and details intended to improve fit or versatility. The range spans tailoring, knitwear, dresses and travel-friendly separates rather than trend-led capsules alone.
Best for Intelligent Fashion
Visit official site ↗London, UK
London eveningwear label founded in 2013 by designer Hannah Coffin, specializing in hand-sequined and embellished tulle gowns inspired by English gardens and vintage textiles.
Best for Sequins, Occasion Dresses
Needle & Thread was founded in 2013 by British designer Hannah Coffin, who traces her interest in sewing to being given a Singer sewing machine by her grandmother as a child. She studied Fashion and Textiles at Ravensbourne University in London and worked in the fashion industry for roughly a decade before launching her own label. The brand's identifying signature is hand-embellishment - sequin work, embroidery and other applied detailing on tulle and similar fabrics - applied to gowns, day dresses, bridalwear and, more recently, childrenswear, knitwear and loungewear. Coffin remains the brand's founder and CEO, stocked internationally by department stores including Harvey Nichols.
Visit official site ↗London / Jermyn Street / Online
Eton's outfitter since 1865 — flamboyant gowns, silk dressing robes, and proper shirts. Famed too for embroidered velvet slippers and silk dressing gowns.
Best for Peacock-English shirts and robes.
Visit official site ↗London, UK
London womenswear brand founded 2015 by Andrew Xeni, backed by New Look founder Tom Singh; B-Corp certified, known for printed midi dresses made in zero-waste capsule collections.
Best for Trendy, Sustainable
Nobody's Child was founded in London in 2015 by Andrew Xeni, aiming to make stylish, affordably priced womenswear produced more responsibly than typical high-street fashion. The business drew early backing from Tom Singh, founder of New Look, and grew through a direct-to-consumer model alongside concessions with ASOS, John Lewis, Selfridges and others.
The brand's structural distinction is its zero-waste capsule production model: rather than running large speculative print runs, Nobody's Child produces smaller, more considered batches to reduce leftover stock and textile waste. It is B-Corp certified, a third-party verification of its social and environmental practices, and organizes its public commitments around four pillars it calls People, Planet, Product and Progress.
Its most recognizable product line is printed dresses — florals, ginghams and polka dots across mini, midi and maxi lengths — which anchor the brand's identity more than any single signature style.
Visit official site ↗United Kingdom / Online
Founded in London in 2009, THE OUTNET is an active online retailer specializing in discounted past-season designer fashion, including clothing, dresses, shoes, bags and accessories from international labels. The platform continues to trade under new ownership after its assets moved from LuxExperience to The O Group in April 2026.
Best for Discounted past-season designer clothing, shoes, bags, and accessories
THE OUTNET launched in London in 2009 as a sister site to NET-A-PORTER, created by the same team to sell past-season womenswear and menswear from established designers at a discount. It originally drew its stock from NET-A-PORTER's own unsold inventory, though in more recent years the majority of merchandise has been sourced directly from brands rather than passed down from its sister site. THE OUTNET operated for over a decade as part of what became the YOOX NET-A-PORTER Group, later restructured under the holding company LuxExperience. In October 2025, LuxExperience agreed to sell the assets powering THE OUTNET - including its brand rights, customer data, inventory and US distribution center - to The O Group, an investment group backed by Joseph Edery and Ritesh Punjabi; the sale, valued at roughly $30 million, closed in April 2026.
Visit official site ↗UK
Boden sells colourful wardrobe basics, print-led dresses, knitwear and children’s clothing through a catalogue-rooted model. The broad range favours dependable seasonal pieces and coordinated family dressing over avant-garde fashion.
Best for Colourful family polos
Visit official site ↗Market Place (The Corn Hall), Cirencester
Chef Bob Parkinson runs this open-kitchen brasserie and deli counter in the Corn Hall on Market Place, cooking Mediterranean-leaning plates from produce sold a few steps away. The shelves carry house dressings, oils and charcuterie alongside cheeses, fresh pasta and pastries baked on the premises.
Best for Deli provisions and all-day brasserie dining
Visit official site ↗Ryder & Amies
Hidden GemKing's Parade
Ryder & Amies supplies academic dress and college clothing from its shop on King's Parade in Cambridge. Its range includes gowns and hoods alongside college scarves, with both plain striped and embroidered-badge scarf designs available. Many robes and scarves are produced at its Fenland workshop, while gown hire and personalised college clothing provide additional services.
Best for Cambridge academic dress, gown hire and college scarves
Visit official site ↗Stewart Christie & Co
Heritage HouseQueen Street, New Town
Tracing its line back to around 1720, Stewart Christie & Co on Queen Street is a Scottish bespoke tailor, hand-cutting and finishing suits, jackets and Highland dress. Alongside bespoke and made-to-measure work it stocks tartans, tweeds and ready-to-wear for men and women.
Best for Bespoke tailoring
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