Shepherd’s

We are so excited to announce our collaboration with Mayflower Cigars and Michael Knowles to launch a limited-edition smoking jacket! (PS these will arrive by Christmas.) Head to Mayflower's website to place your order now! https://lnkd.in/gMTc76ng

We are so excited to announce our collaboration with Mayflower Cigars and Michael Knowles to launch a limited-edition smoking jacket! (PS these will arrive by Christmas.) Head to Mayflower's website to place your order now! https://lnkd.in/gMTc76ng

Next week we are opening our new Shepherd’s showroom in Kansas City! It has been a huge undertaking and I couldn't be more proud of what the team accomplished. We spent a year finding the right space and, once we found it, we knew right away it was going to be a great home for our brand in Kansas City. We moved walls, added doors, pulled out floors, put in new floors, and painted. We built an entirely custom cabinet, bookshelves, and consultation table. We cut a few hundred pieces of wood for the chair railing and baseboards and fit them all together perfectly. We open the doors on Tuesday, November 5th, and I can't wait to share photos of how it all came together. In the meantime... here's some photos from our sprint week of very long days.

At Shepherd’s we take an immense amount of care during our fitting process, checking over 100 spots to ensure the final garment will fit perfectly. One of the challenges I enjoy the most is that the measurements and adjustments are all happening on a real guy, a living body, like a structure that’s adjusting shape in real time. Most of the time, at the very beginning of a fitting, the customer is a little tense, and that shows in how he carries his shoulders or how his posture changes. After all, it makes sense: it’s a new experience to get a custom-made garment and it can feel vulnerable for the customer. With this in mind, we’re very intentional about a few things during the fitting. First, we always ask the customer to take a seat, while they’re still wearing the fitting templates, to see how the garment feels sitting down. (Some of our customers—and cofounders—also genuflect to see how that feels, which we love.) Second, we always ask the customer a question or to do something, like grab a drink or adjust a button, and it’s incredible how a customer’s posture immediately relaxes when his mind is occupied with a task. In that brief moment, we get a much better understanding of how he really carries his shoulders and posture and can adjust to that. We know that an exceptional fitting is always in the details and we’re always looking for ways to find them.