Peckham Rye ties

Peckham Rye, Carnaby Street, London

Peckham Rye; from the cockney rhyming slang Peckham Rye = Tie.

I had seen Peckham Rye’s ties in the Selfridges tie bar and liked their verve and extravagance.  However I had never been to the shop before.

If you can get there I urge you to go.  The founders of Peckham Rye are the sixth generation of a London tailoring family and the shop celebrates that tradition wonderfully with well-made menswear.  

The shop is a kind of menswear Tardis.  It is small but packed with wonderful clothes.  The shop sells Peckham Rye’s shirts, ties, scarves and other accessories.  The measure of a good menswear shop for me is how much I want to buy.  And here, I would have happily bought the entire collection. 

Everything in Peckham Rye’s collection is made in England, they are rightly proud of both the design flair and quality of their clothes.  Their shirts are a great example, clearly good quality but vibrant with style and classy colour.  They are like a kind of Thomas Pink shirt, with added pizzazz.

Other great buys include their classic fringed silk scarves, in solid colours with a pin-dot pattern.  These are simply downright beautiful. 

And the shop is great fun, they have the most amazing photographs of fifities South London, showing stylish men wearing those classic English-cut suits that little tailors used to turn out in those days.  Run by the co-owners, David and Martin, this is really is an original and interesting menswear shop.   

Yellow pin-dot silk square, Peckham Rye

I bought this classic silk square.  Though it is an old-school classic I wanted it for the hand-finished stitching, which you can see in the photograph below.  It is tactile and real.  The best thing I have bought for weeks.

Yellow pin-dot silk square, stitch detail

The shop is on Newburgh Street, just off Carnaby Street.  Go see these guys, they have beautiful menswear at good prices.  Just go, this is how menswear is supposed to be made.

Details:

Peckham Rye

11 Newburgh Street,

Off Carnaby Street,

London, W1F 7RW

Tel: 0207 734 5181                 

www.peckhamrye.com