Reid & Taylor is a name most Indian customers know from three decades of advertising, and it is worth being clear about what it is. The name is Scottish in origin. The cloth sold under it in India is made in India, and the brand has been positioned at the premium end of the domestic suiting market for a long time. Taken on those terms it is a good book, and we would rather tell you the terms than let you assume something else.
The name, and what it means here
Reid & Taylor began as a Scottish cloth name. The Indian business built around it has been one of the strongest premium suiting brands in the country for decades, and the cloth on our shelf under that label is Indian-made.
What that buys you is a book aimed squarely at formal business and occasion wear, with a finish and a colour range to match, and a name Indian customers have trusted for a very long time.
Where it sits
The book runs across worsted and blended suiting at the upper end of the Indian market, with a finish and a colour range aimed at formal business and occasion wear rather than daily punishment.
In practice we open it alongside GRADO and OCM when a customer wants the best cloth available without moving to the imported shelf, and we let the three be compared by hand.
When we open Reid & Taylor
For a formal Indian business suit, for a first premium commission, and for customers who specifically ask for the brand by name, which happens often enough that keeping it on the shelf is simply good sense.
Reid & Taylor cloth is available to order through us.