great news!! people have been badgering me over the last couple of months to put up a Forum on the site, although I have to confess that I wasn't entirely sure what a Forum was but after much pushing from a number of clients I have finally popped one up! you can find it under the Barrington Ayre community tab on the left of the home page.

We have been in London a number of days this week measuring a vast number of clients who are getting their orders in before Christmas and I have to say that Remembrance Day is seemingly taking hold of people far more than I have ever seen before.

Not only was nearly everyone I saw in London wearing a poppy but when mine fell on the floor at a cash machine a builder who accidentally trod on my poppy jumped back and then bent down, straightened it out and handed it back to me. It was a fantastic moment and after observing the 2 minutes silence this morning I was very proud to be British.

Another busy week coming up and a couple of big measurement days so I better get prepared. So until next time......

New Sock Subscription Service now available from Barrington Ayre.

How often do you find yourself running short of socks and then never finding the time to get out to buy new socks that you actually like? well, this is the perfect service for you then! Simply pick the socks that you want, how often you want to receive them and we will do the rest! simply!

To read more visit - http://www.barringtonayre.co.uk/page34.htm

Barrington Ayre have just launched a brand new 'Referral' incentive. Introduce someone to Barrington Ayre and if they buy a bespoke shirt you will get 20% OFF your next order.

Simply contact us at 0845 300 90 14 or email us info@barringtonayre.co.uk to discuss things further

Barrington Ayre Bespoke Shirts have just launched their new Country Clothing Range, to allow their clients to be the best dressed person on any shoot, hunt or outdoor country pursuit, in time for the upcoming seasons. To co-incide with this launch Barrington Ayre bespoke shirts are providing a special Country Wear package to include, one bespoke country shirt, one pair of shooting socks, 1 pair of shooting garters and one English made merino wool jumper for only £149.00 including vat.

Barrington Ayre Bespoke Shirts now have an online shop! You are now able to buy the finest Pantherella & Scott-Nichol English made socks direct from the website! Pantherella are known throughout Britain & across the world as a name synonymous with quality and comfort. All of their socks have a unique hand-linked toe finish which make every sock the most comfortable you will ever wear.

We are also able to offer the finest English made knitwear from John Smedley. John Smedley are world renown as one of the finest knitwear makers & we are very proud to be able to offer their products from our site. Once you have worn a John Smedley jumper you will never buy anotehr make as long as you live.

I had just delivered another 6 of our bespoke shirts to a number of clients around Cirencester and one of them asked me why our shirts were so much cheaper than our competitors? he jokingly wondered if we had our shirts made in a sweat shop out in the Far East?! This is most definitely not the case. With this question in mind I decided to tell everyone about our shirts and our fabrics.
Firstly all of our bespoke shirts are made in France, not out in the Far East. Our manufacturing department is run by people who have been in the business for years and the shirts are made by some of the finest seamstresses in Europe.
Secondly, all of our fabrics are the finest Egyptian cotton and are all made in Italy, the finest manufacturer of cotton in The World.
So why are our shirts so much cheaper than our competitors? the simple answer is that we do not add as large a mark up on our shirts.
Barrington Ayre's whole philosophy is that we believe that everyone should have the right to wear bespoke clothing if we can offer this privelage at a price that doesn't break the bank balance, then we shall!
Barrington Ayre's business model is very different to most other shirt manufacturers so we can still produce the finest bespoke shirts, from the finest Italian fabric all made in Europe without charging the World for them.
So if you would like to experience the real joy of having a bespoke shirt made specifically for you from the finest Egyptian cotton, made in Italy, with the choice of mother of pearl buttons, hundreds of fabrics a wealth of personal little extras to let you make the shirt that you have always wanted, simply either log on to www.barringtonayre.co.uk or email us at info@barringtonayre.co.uk or call us on 07511 794702 organise for one of our visiting tailors to come see you at your home or office.

We are delighted to announce that this week saw us successfully deliver a number of our bespoke shirts to our first International customer! all the way from Cape Town, South Africa. Richard was given our name by a member of his family who we make shirts for on a regular basis, and last time he was over on business, we met up, measured him up, got his shirts made and hand delivered to him when he was over last week!

So if you are reading this from abroad (or even from the UK!) please feel free to get in touch with us and we can work together to provide you with the perfect bespoke shirt that you have always wanted

until next time.......

Barrington Ayre are looking at offering our clients not only our fantastic range of bespoke shirts but also the finest English made socks and the ultimate in English made jumpers. This new development will also coincide with us offering an online shop to let our customers buy directly off the website. Please keep an eye on the website where we will be announcing our launch date.

until next time......

Barrington Ayre proudly sponsored Frocester Cricket Clubs Annual Sportsmans Ball this month. It was another fantastic occasion with Graeme 'Foxy' Fowler being one of the main speakers at the Ball. He recounted many stories of his cricketing days and how he was the only person to score 2 centuries in one match with a runner, even if the runner did celebrate Foxy's century by raising his own bat!! & how he scored the first century for England in India.

It was a cracking evening and one we will certainly be supporting again!

Well we are now 3 games into the Twenty20 Cup competition and Gloucestershire aren't doing as well as they would have hoped! Barrington Ayre's man, Ian Fisher has been pretty consistent throughout the 3 matches:

versus Worcestershire - match lost - Ian Fisher 0-27 off 4 overs - run out for 8 runs

versus Warwickshire - match tied - Ian Fisher 1-27 off 4 overs - DNB

versus Northamptonshire - match lost - Ian Fisher 1-18 off 3 overs - LBW for 10

we will be hoping Gloucestershire improve over the coming weeks and will be keeping a close eye on our chap!

until next time....

We are now incredibly proud to announce that we are going to be sponsoring Ian Fisher from Gloucestershire Cricket Club. Ian is a fantastic cricketer and not only is he a Yorkshireman, like our Founder, he is also famous for his incredible fitness and work ethic and this is why Barrington Ayre decided to sponsor Ian for this season. We will be keeping you up to date with how Ian is going on on the website

Barrington Ayre have joined with The Cotswold Show to offer one lucky visitor the chance to have a Barrington Ayre Bespoke Shirt made for them absolutely free!

All you have to do to be in with a chance to win this fantastic prize is to buy a ticket!! Yes, it really is as easy at that!

http://www.cotswoldshow.co.uk/html/golden-ticket.php

Just click on the link above and learn more about this fantastic show, taking place on the 5th and 6th of July this year.

We hope to meet many of you there!

so, until next time......

Over the last few days we have decided to update some of the site and make it a little bit easier to pick your perfect bespoke shirt. Now all you have to do is go on to the fabrics tab and pick which sort of fabric, e.g. plain, checks, stripes, linen, contemporary, you fancy having your bespoke shirt made from.

Please feel free to have a look round the site and let us know what you think, after all we are here for you so let us know how you want your bespoke site set up!

Our very talented photographer, Justin Short of www.shortworks.com has taken a few more snaps, so get on to our site and have a look! but here are a couple just to wet your appetite!

So, there have been two friendly games of the new cricket season and the founder & owner of Barrington Ayre, Tom Wharton hasn't started the season quite as he wanted to! With 1 not out off three balls in his first innings he unfortuntaley followed that up with 1 and out, off 3 balls in his 2nd innings!!

however his bowling has proved a little bit more successful with 4 overs bowled, 3 maidens and one slightly less successful over conceeding 9 runs!!

On the subject of cricket, Barrington Ayre are now proud sponsors of Ian Fisher, the Gloucestershire Cricket Player. We will be sponsoring him over the next season and will be sure to keep you up to date with his progress.

so, until next time.....

We are extremely pleased to annouce that Barrington Ayre is now the proud sponsor of an annual prize at Wellington College. We will be sponsoring a prize for each Captain of the 4 major sports & this week we went down to fit out the Captains for their bespoke shirt courteousy of Barrington Ayre, Bespoke Shirts.

Strangely enough each Captain went for a plain coloured shirt with contrasting white collar & cuffs!

Each year the Captains of each sport will receive a bespoke shirt made by Barrington Ayre which will be presented at Speech Day.

We are also very proud to announce that we will be offering a special discount to Wellingtonians, Old Wellingtonians & their parents so if you qualify! just get in touch with us & we will give you all of the details.

So, until next time....

well, the fly fishing season is here again & this week we went out fishing with one of our oldest clients. Unfortuntaley yours truly didn't quite have the result he was after managing to hook on to precisely zero fish!!

However our client seemed to have some 6th sense when it came to talking to the fish & managed to pull out 3 beauties with the heaiest being 5lbs!! lucky man!!

Also this week we had some incredible feedback from the announcement that we would shortly be making bespoke ladies shirts. We have agreed to do our 1st two orders already due to some serious persuasion from the ladies involved so I will keep you all informed on how they look.

This week is going to be a very exciting week for Barrington Ayre as we have our first professional photo shoot! A number of people have been selected from the photos that we received & I am off to scout locations on Tuesday & the photos will be taken this Saturday. I very much look forward to sharing the photos with you.

So, until next time......

It has been another busy week for all of us here at Barrington Ayre. We spent Saturday at the last day of the VWH Hunt for this year, where a number of our clients were sporting some of the new Barrington Ayre Country Shirt range. It was a fantastic day out although finding out that we had locked the car keys in the boot of the car did take the shine off it a little bit!! but after some fantastic work with a stick & some well placed hands we did manage to get back in without any damage!

Also last week, our friends at www.muddymatches.co.uk put up a link to Barrington Ayre so that their members can take advantage of our beautiful shirts and make sure that they are looking their finest when they embark on that all important first date!

With the 1/2 price bespoke boxer short offer on now, when you buy any shirt, it looks like another bust week for everyone here! so until next time.......

Barrington Ayre are extremely proud to introduce Mr Tabbs! our resident tailoring expert. If you have any bespoke clothing questions, Mr Tabbs is the man to ask!

Whether you want to know what sort of shirt that you should wear for a formal wedding, or what sort of cut would suit your shirt, Mr Tabbs is the man to ask!

So all you need to do is go to the Ask Mr Tabbs page, send Mr Tabbs your questions and he will do the rest!