The writer is a craft activist and chairperson of Dastkar. In my generation, we were brought up on adages like ‘cutting off your nose to spite your face’, ‘tarring everyone with the same brush’, ...

The world of bespoke tailoring appears to be one of the last “boys’ clubs” in an increasingly gender-neutral society. However, those rarified showrooms aren’t necessarily the all-male redoubts they ...