Cuff to Collar

Cuff to Collar Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10AM –6PM. Walk-ins welcome. Appointments.

Located in downtown Richmond, KY, Cuff to Collar is Madison County's go-to destination for custom suits, tuxedo rentals, suit rentals, and everything a man needs to look sharp.

08/31/2026

I can tell how much a man cares about his clothes by looking at his ankles.

Not judging him. Just reading him. The hem is the last thing anybody thinks about and the first thing that gives a suit away.
Fabric piled on the shoe in three or four folds tells me the trousers came home and never went to a tailor. It’s the most common thing I see and it’s a quick fix.

What surprises men is the seat. If the trouser pulls across the back when you sit, or hangs empty, it changes how you carry yourself all day without you knowing why. You end up standing differently. Feeling watched.

Ten years of this and I’m still convinced trousers are the most neglected half of a man’s wardrobe.

And if you’re out around Danville, Somerset, or London, you don’t have to make the drive up to Lexington for this. We’re right here in Richmond. Come see us and we’ll get your trousers sorted.

08/29/2026

Most men solve a wardrobe problem by buying another jacket. Nine times out of ten it was a shirt problem.

A navy sport coat is the hardest working thing a man can own. It sits above almost every trouser you have, it reads correctly
at a wedding and at a closing table, and it never looks like you’re trying.

What changes the room is what’s underneath it. White shirt and a tie, and you’re a guest at a wedding. Light blue with the
collar open, and you’re the man across the desk on Monday. Same coat. Nobody notices, because there’s nothing to notice.

That’s why I keep telling gentlemen to spend on shirts before they spend on a second jacket.

Right now three dress shirts come with any custom suit or sport coat. A $525 value, through Labor Day or while supplies last.

Come see us at Cuff to Collar in Richmond. Bring the jacket you already own and we’ll build two looks around it. Three shirts come with any custom suit or sport coat through Labor Day.

08/29/2026

There’s a layer inside your jacket you’ve never seen, and it decides how long the jacket lives.

A canvas is a sheet of horsehair and wool cut to the shape of your chest and stitched in loose so it can move. It doesn’t hold the fabric flat. It lets the fabric take the shape of the man wearing it, a little more every year.

Fusing is glue and heat. It gets you the same look on day one for a fraction of the labor, and it’s why a rack jacket can hang at that price at all. Then the dry cleaning starts and the glue lets go in patches. That bubbled, rippled chest you’ve seen on an old jacket is exactly that.

There’s a middle option too. Half canvas runs the canvas through the chest and lapel and fuses the rest, and it’s honestly the right buy for most men.

And if you want to feel the difference between the two with your own hands, come by the shop in Richmond. I’ll hang them next to each other for you. That’s a five minute conversation and it changes how you shop forever.

08/28/2026

You don’t hate wearing a dress shirt. You hate wearing a shirt that was cut for somebody else.

Off the rack, your collar comes in half inch jumps. Fifteen, fifteen and a half, sixteen. Your neck landed somewhere between two of those numbers and you’ve been rounding ever since. Round up and it gapes under the tie. Round down and you’re loosening it in the car on the way home.

That’s the whole story. Not the fabric, not the brand on the label, not your body. One measurement that nobody ever took.

I’ve fit over ten thousand men and the collar is where almost every one of them was carrying a compromise he’d stopped noticing.

Right now, 3 dress shirts come with any custom suit or sport coat. A $525 value, running through Labor Day or while supplies last.

We’re Cuff to Collar, here in Richmond. Come in this week and we’ll measure your neck properly, no charge and no appointment needed. Three shirts come with any custom suit or sport coat through Labor Day.

08/27/2026

The grooms who stress about their suit are the ones who started in September.

Six weeks sounds tight until you see where it actually goes. Five of those weeks are the garment being made. The work on your end is one appointment and one fitting. That’s it. Most grooms are surprised at how little of the timeline belongs to them.

The part that catches people out is the groomsmen. Four other men who all need to be measured, and at least one of them will not come in until you make him. Start that conversation the same week you order yours.

If the wedding is inside four weeks, a rental is the right call and I’ll tell you so. There’s no shame in it. That’s what rentals are for.

If you’re getting married this fall anywhere around Richmond, Danville, or Berea, come in and we’ll map your timeline in about ten minutes. Email chris@cufftocollar.com or stop by the shop.

08/26/2026

Those buttons on your sleeve are a two hundred year old answer to a problem nobody has anymore.

Field surgeons in the Napoleonic wars needed their sleeves out of the way and they needed it in seconds. Tailors cut real
buttonholes into the cuff so the sleeve could come open. The war ended. The buttonholes stayed, because by then they meant something.

Here’s the part that matters to you. A working cuff more often than not is finished by hand, and it has to be finished after the sleeve length is set. That’s why factories skip it. You can’t mass produce a garment and leave that decision open.

So when you see four buttons that actually open, you’re looking at a sleeve that was cut for one specific man’s arm.

Most people will never notice. If you want to see the difference in person, we’ve got both hanging on the rack here in Richmond and I’ll show you. Email chris@cufftocollar.com or just come
by.

08/25/2026

Your tailor can fix almost anything on a jacket. The sleeve is the one he’d rather you notice before you buy it.

Here is what most men don’t know. There are two sleeves involved in that half inch, and they have nothing to do with each other. The jacket sleeve is set by the shop. The shirt sleeve is set by your arm length and your collar size, and off the rack it comes in one length for every man in your neck size.

So when a man tells me his cuff never shows, the jacket is usually not the guilty party. His shirt sleeve isn’t correct and
he’s been blaming the wrong garment for years.

A jacket sleeve is an easy alteration. A shirt sleeve cut to your arm is why custom shirts exist.

Look down at your wrist right now. If what you see isn’t right, bring the jacket by the shop here in Richmond and we’ll tell you which sleeve is the problem. No appointment needed to ask.

08/24/2026

Most men buy their first real suit far too late in life.

They wait for a wedding, a funeral, a job that finally demands it. By then they’ve spent years in clothes that never fit, quietly feeling less put-together than they actually are.

Here’s what I believe after 14 years: a man doesn’t dress well because he made it. He starts making it, in part, because he
decided to dress well. The suit comes first. The confidence follows. I’ve watched it happen on the fitting platform more times than I can count — a guy stands a little taller the second the jacket is right, and you can see him start to expect more of
himself.

What age do you think a man should own his first suit that truly fits — and did you hit it?

08/23/2026

The most expensive thing a man can wear isn’t a suit. It’s the habit of buying cheap twice.

I’ve watched it for 14 years. A man buys the $400 suit to save money, wears it hard, and replaces it in two seasons because it
never fit and never lasted. Then he does it again. Add it up and he’s spent more than a custom suit would have cost — and
he never once felt sharp in any of it.

Custom isn’t about spending more. It’s about spending once, on something built for your body, and being done. That’s not a
luxury mindset. That’s respecting your own money.

Buy quality once, or buy cheap forever.

08/22/2026

The people who notice a mother-of-pearl button are usually the same people worth impressing.

I love this detail because it’s honest. A shirt can be dressed up with a nice pattern, but the button doesn’t lie — it tells you
whether the maker cared. Real mother-of-pearl is cut from shell, so every button is a little different, catches light a little
differently, and outlasts the shirt itself. Plastic is uniform, cheap, and gone in a season.

Most men will never look. But the ones who do are the ones who appreciate quality — usually the people in the room you
most want to reach. That’s the quiet power of good clothing: you know the care is there, whether anyone else notices or not.

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