A custom two-piece suit runs from $1,100 to around $25,000, and most of our clients commission between $3,000 and $7,000. The range is driven almost entirely by which mill the cloth comes from, not by how the garment is built.
That surprises people. The assumption is that an expensive suit means more craftsmanship and a cheaper one means corners cut. The hours are largely comparable. What changes is the fabric — and between a house cloth and a Loro Piana, the fabric can account for nearly the entire difference.
Here is what each tier of cloth actually costs.
$1,100 – $3,000
Our own fabrics
Cloth we source and stock ourselves. Solid, hard-wearing suiting that takes a press well and holds up to regular rotation. The right starting point for a first bespoke commission, or for building out a working wardrobe without paying a named-mill premium.
$3,500 – $25,000
Named European mill
Scabal weaves in Huddersfield and has supplied the trade for decades. Finer yarns, deeper colour, and a hand that is noticeably different from entry cloth. The range is wide because it spans everyday suiting up to their rarest limited weaves. This is where most of our wedding and black-tie commissions sit.
$6,500 – $20,000
The top of the market
Super 150s and above, cashmere blends, and at the very top, vicuña — the finest natural fibre available, from an animal that can only be shorn every two to three years. Extraordinary to wear. Genuinely not necessary for anyone’s first suit.
Where most people actually land. The average Zeglio commission falls between $3,000 and $7,000. That band covers the upper end of our house cloth and the working range of Scabal, and it is where the balance of cloth quality against cost is best. Very few clients need to go above it.
What the other pieces cost
A tuxedo starts at $1,300, slightly above a suit, because black-tie construction asks for more finishing. A three-piece starts at $1,500. Custom shirts run $180 to $1,200, a sport jacket from $750, trousers from $450, a vest from $400, and a top coat from $1,400. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Worth knowing. A three-piece is not three times a two-piece. The waistcoat adds a few hundred dollars because it comes from cloth already allocated to your garment and uses a pattern already drawn. If you are undecided, ordering it now is considerably cheaper than ordering it later.
Where the price is not
It is not in the number of fittings. Every bespoke commission gets a basted fitting and a final fitting regardless of what the cloth costs — a suit in house fabric is fitted exactly as carefully as one in Loro Piana. That is the part people expect to be scaled, and it is not.
It is also not in the pattern. Drawing a pattern from scratch takes the same work whichever cloth it will be cut from, which is why the bespoke versus made-to-measure distinction matters more than the price tag does.
Construction does move the number, but far less than cloth. Full canvas costs more than half canvas because the canvas is attached by hand across the whole jacket front — real hours, but measured in hundreds of dollars, not thousands. The difference is explained in half canvas vs full canvas.
If you are buying one suit
Put the money into construction before cloth. A full canvas jacket in good house fabric will outlive and outperform a fused jacket in something exotic, and it will fit better in year three than it did in year one. Exceptional cloth is worth having — but it is the second thing to spend on, not the first.
And the second commission is easier. We archive your pattern after the first, so the next garment starts from a fit already proven on your body: fewer corrections, less time, more certainty about what you are getting.
Tell us the budget first. We will tell you honestly what it buys.
