August 19th in Banker, Careers by Editor .

From Banking to Suitmaking

At Cad and The Dandy – a bespoke tailors run by ex-bankers on Savile Row…

Charles Tyrwhitt UK
 

Which has had a review in the Telegraph after holding a competition for the best dressed banker.

Telegraph: “When the recession started there were all these reports about bankers buying white shirts because no one wanted to stand out,” James Sleater, who founded the firm together with a former Barclays banker, Ian Meiers, two years ago, said. “We wanted to celebrate individuality. We also wanted to have a little bit of fun.”

Mr. Sleater, a former sales trader at BNP Paribas, had to laugh. One of the nominees for the best-dressed banker title is Philippe Guyot, his former boss at BNP who laid him off, he said.

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If Mr Sleater’s lucky he might get to suit up his former boss…

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