What Is Soft Tailoring? How to Wear Relaxed Yet Polished Styles

A great way to enhance your workwear wardrobe, soft tailoring delivers comfortable, wearable, work savvy styles. But what exactly is soft tailoring and how can it work for you?

What Is Soft Suiting?

Soft tailoring deconstructs traditional suiting styles such as jackets, pants and shirts. Where formal tailoring builds up layers of structure with interfacings, fusibles and linings, soft tailoring strips all that away, leaving the outer shell to stand on its own.The result is a softer, more relaxed look and feel. This lightness of structure gives a more comfortable, modern look that presents elegance without ceremony.

Feel The Freedom Of Soft Suiting

Less rigid in its construction, soft tailoring offers more freedom to move. Refined construction and fluid <br>fabrics create syle without compromising on fit. Best of all, soft tailoring garments are easy to care for - no dry cleaners required!

What Makes Soft Tailoring Special?

Soft tailoring is not all about taking aspects away, good soft tailoring has noteworthy features of its own. 

Strong seams, reinforced panels and taped hemlines do much to power up traditional tailored styles so without these, soft tailored garments need other ways to give shape to their silhouette. This can make their construction much more interesting...

Clever Construction Techniques

L+F’s soft tailoring for example, features a range of clever construction techniques. Well-positioned darts are used to underpin the fit of some jackets fit while grown on collars reinforce the lightness of fabrication on others. Buggy linings and half linings serve to preserve the shape of jackets too, through the back and shoulders where they get the most wear.

Sleeveheads too, are prime real estate for soft tailoring to really make a statement. Take the double tucks in the sleeveheads of the Gianni Jacket, which define the shoulderline without the need for power-dressing shoulder pads.