#bindle & keep

[supergirlspurgatory]

The real reason why I want to be super wealthy?

I want to be able to own a handful of super dapper, super gorgeous, custom-made suits. 

Like, have you guys seen the ones made by, Bindle & Keep in New York City, or by Shane Ave. in Austrailia?

They are so fucking gorgeous. 

[brooklynmuseum]

Celebrate the close of New York Fashion Week with R/Evolution, @dapperq ’s fourth annual queer runway showcase, here @brooklynmuseum. Mix and mingle at a happy hour sponsored by Henrietta Hudson, New York City’s longest standing brick and mortar lesbian bar, and check out pop-up shops from some of the evening’s featured designers. Then, join us for the main event, a runway showcase featuring Audio Helkuik, Bindle & Keep, By Nicole Wilson, Clio Sage, SDN Brooklyn, Sir New York, Stuzo, The Tailory New York, TomboyX, Clear Coated, and more than 70 models, who collectively represent a range of LGBTQIA+ identities and redefine notions of queer style. Get your tickets while they last!

[sceneontv-blog]

HBO’s new documentary film Suited is a fascinating looks at Bindle & Keep, a Brooklyn clothier that specializes in making suits for gender non-confirming clients.  

Co-produced by Lena Dunham and directed by a Girls boom operator named Jason Benjamin, Suited also features a great use of “Who Knows” by Beginners at the beginning of the movie.  The song plays when group of people in their new custom tailored suits pose for the camera at a photo shoot. They jump, dance and laugh while Ray runs around making sure they look great. Daniel and Ray talk directly to the camera and explain how their company came to be, what their goals are, and why it means so much to them.  

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[kitkatcabbit]

Bindle & Keep is a bespoke men and womenswear company based out of New York City that endeavors to provide you with the finest fabrics, an unparalleled attention to detail, and white-glove client service.

I’m watching the documentary ‘Suited’, and trying not to cry every 5 minutes.

[putthison]

Bindle & Keep: Suits without the Gender Baggage of Traditional Men’s Tailoring

We talk a lot about the finer points of tailoring on Put This On—what fabrics are out there, how a suit should fit, how it can be constructed. All of these assume that, with some money in your pocket, you can go buy or at least order a good-looking, well-made, and decently fitting suit today in any American city. But that’s not true for everyone who wants to wear a suit.

Bindle & Keep is a custom tailor based in Brooklyn, and although their website copy reads like that of many other upstart custom tailoring operations (they’ll use their years of experience and 30 point fit profile to deliver you a one of kind suit comfortable enough to sleep in)—there’s a significant difference: approximately 90% of Bindle & Keep’s clientele is from the LGBTQ community. 

The outfit and six of their clients are the subject of an upcoming documentary on HBO, Suited. Rae Tutera and Daniel Friedman, who started the company, specialize in making suits for people who want what a suit can give you—a sharply tailored silhouette, the confidence that can come with wearing a woolen suit of armor—but who your old school tailors were often not equipped or prepared to serve. Tutera and Friedman (pictured above in a photo from Rachel Syme’s New Yorker story) are responsive to the needs of clients who don’t have body measurements that fit the templates of traditional tailoring, and who have potentially spent their lives wearing clothing that fit them, but didn’t fit them.

I haven’t tried Bindle & Keep’s services, and I don’t know how their product stacks up against the sort of tailoring criteria we like to pick nits about, but I’m unreservedly in favor of a business delivering the tailoring its clients want and value, and serving a community who the men’s retail business often ignores or even rejects. 

[justwannashowyouwhatiknow]

'No one contacts us and says, 'I want a fitting,' say the owners of Brooklyn-based tailoring company Bindle & Keep. 'They usually say, 'This is my story.''

Suited, directed by Jason Benjamin, premieres on HBO next month.

[cptnmoody]

Legit, well tailored suits are my jam. 

This blue suit is HOT. Hot ass pair of heels and I am downnnnn!

[genderapparitions]

‘The right to be handsome’: Clothing for gender non-conforming people on the rise

Companies that offer custom-made clothing for transgender and gender non-conforming people are coming to the forefront, as more diverse models gain visibilit...