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name: "Whitcomb & Shaftesbury Washable Jacket"
subtitle: "Bespoke tailoring you can put through the washing machine"
date: 2026-07-07
link: "https://www.permanentstyle.com/2026/07/why-a-machine-washable-bespoke-jacket-is-unusual.html"
linkText: "permanentstyle.com"
source: "Permanent Style"
topics: [clothing]
tags: [tailoring, bespoke, menswear]
description: "A fully bespoke jacket engineered to survive a washing machine — unusual because the canvas, padding, and pressing in structured tailoring normally can't take it."
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Most canvassed, structured tailoring can't survive a washing machine — the interlinings, padding, and hand-pressing that give a jacket its shape all come apart when soaked and tumbled. Whitcomb & Shaftesbury built a fully bespoke jacket engineered to take exactly that, which quietly removes the one thing that makes proper tailoring feel too precious to actually wear through a hot summer.