Blue check wool suit
Designed by Tommy Nutter, London, 1966
T.75 to 3-1996

'Everybody was wearing a narrow suit at the end of the 1960s...so I just went wild with the lapels and cut them as wide as you possibly could
-enormous- and it was terribly flared at the jacket. So that was my first look and it was different from anybody else'.
Tommy Nutter 'The Savile Row Story' 1988

Tommy Nutter was trained in traditional tailoring on Savile Row before setting up his 'House of Nutter', backed by Cilla Black and Peter Brown of the Beatles' company Apple. The business, which opened on Valentine's Day 1969, remained in the same street, but created a sensation with its bold window displays and original suits. Nutter's better known customers included Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. The Beatles are pictured wearing three of his suits on the front cover of 'Abbey Road'.