No. 12 — Two-Piece, Suit-Weight Wool

The Meridian

One line, cut to circle the body without a seam out of place.

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Peak Lapel

Cut high on the chest, rolled and pressed by hand.

Half-Canvas Build

Floats over horsehair canvas; softens to you with wear.

Surgeon's Cuffs

Four horn buttons, each one working.

Pick Stitching

Eight stitches to the inch, set by eye along every edge.

Material

Wool that remembers its shape

Milled from a mid-weight wool with a whisper of cashmere, the cloth is dense enough to hold a crease through a long day and soft enough to wear against the collarbone without complaint.

It's woven in a fine twill that catches the light differently depending on where you stand — flat under office fluorescents, warm and almost metallic outdoors. That shift is the point.

Each bolt is dyed in small batches, so no two seasons of the Meridian match exactly. Yours is cut from the run you see turning above.

Close view of the Meridian jacket's wool-cashmere cloth and drape.

What It's Made Of

Every component, accounted for

Nothing on the Meridian is there by default. Each material was chosen against the others it might have been, and kept because it earned the spot.

01

Shell Cloth

92% wool, 8% cashmere, woven in a fine twill at 320g/m². Dense enough to hold a crease, soft enough to forget you're wearing it.

Biella, Italy
02

Canvas

A horsehair and wool blend, hand-floated under the chest rather than fused. It shapes to your posture over months of wear instead of holding a mold on day one.

Roanne, France
03

Lining

Cupro, spun from cotton linter. Breathable and static-free, it slides on and off without dragging the shell out of shape.

Kurashiki, Japan
04

Buttons

Natural horn, cut and polished in-house. Four to a cuff, each one a working buttonhole — the surgeon's cuff, done properly.

Sheffield, England
05

Thread

A silk-finish pick stitch, set by eye at eight stitches to the inch along every visible edge.

Como, Italy

The Turn

Seen from every angle

The Meridian jacket at the start of its turn, 0 degrees.
000° Where it starts
The Meridian jacket a third of the way through its turn, 120 degrees.
120° A third around
The Meridian jacket two-thirds of the way through its turn, 240 degrees.
240° Two-thirds around

Fit & Sizing

Start from a size,
leave in your shape

The Meridian ships in six base sizes, then comes with your first alteration included — sleeve, waist, and trouser break, adjusted by the cutter who built it.

Size Chest Waist Jacket Length Recommended Height
44R38–39"32–33"29.5"5'6"–5'9"
46R40–41"34–35"30"5'8"–5'11"
48R42–43"36–37"30.5"5'9"–6'0"
50R44–45"38–39"31"5'10"–6'1"
52L46–47"40–41"32"6'0"–6'3"
54L48–49"42–43"32.5"6'1"–6'4"

Between sizes, or built differently on top than on bottom? A forty-minute fitting sorts it faster than a chart can. Reserve one →

In the Fitting Room

Worn in, on the record

Four fittings deep with other houses and none of them caught that my right shoulder sits lower than my left. Meridian's cutter did it in the first ten minutes, before I'd said a word.
DO D. OkaforBarrister, London
I've bought off-the-rack my whole career and assumed "bespoke" meant a longer wait for the same jacket. It isn't. The canvas moves with you in a way fused linings never do.
RV R. VantongerenCreative Director, Milan
Wore it through a fourteen-hour flight and a same-day meeting. Not a crease past the elbow. My old suits couldn't survive the taxi ride to the airport.
JA J. AshworthPartner, New York
The pick stitching alone told me this wasn't cut by a machine. Small detail, but it's the kind of thing you notice once and then can't stop noticing on everyone else's jacket.
SM S. MercerArchitect, Chicago
Ordered the video fitting from Tokyo out of skepticism more than hope. The alterations came back exact on the first pass. I didn't need a second.
HF H. FujimoriInvestor, Tokyo
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Questions

Before you reserve

Five to seven weeks for the first jacket, cut and finished after your fitting. Reorders in the same size run three to four.

Forty minutes, in person at an atelier or over video. A cutter takes measurements, asks how you actually wear a jacket, and flags anything your base size won't account for.

Yes. The first alteration is included; every one after is billed at cost, and your pattern stays on file so a cutter can pick it up years later.

Brush after each wear, steam instead of iron, and dry clean sparingly — twice a season is plenty for a jacket that's brushed and hung properly.

Video fittings are available anywhere; the finished jacket ships worldwide, duties included, on a ten to fourteen day courier.

Book a Fitting

Made to your line,
not the rack's.

Fittings run forty minutes, in person or over video, with a cutter who will ask more questions about your shoulders than your calendar.

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