A Well-fitted Armhole Is Essential To A Top’s Ease Of Movement

January 28, 2011

A well-fitted armhole is essential to a top’s ease of movement, as this video by Mathew Farnes of Savile Row Artisan demonstrates. The relationship between sleeve, arm and shoulder is one of the great challenges a tailor faces in making a jacket, and one of the reasons jackets are so much more expensive to make than trousers.