Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: how the costumes were tailored to suit the part. →
“I thought that lots of these middle-aged men had bought suits 10 or 15 years ago and stuck with them,” [the costume designer] says. “I would look at a character and try to work out where they had bought their suit.”
She decided that everything in the film could have been bought from shops within half a mile of Piccadilly in London: “Things from Savile Row, Jermyn Street, Fortnum & Mason, Burlington Arcade – one of those upper-middle-class shops that are never fashionable but always do a certain kind of clothing.”
