Pyjamas from Pillowcases

To Get Educated, You Had to Be Baptised Because the School Was Run by Christian Missionaries from Canada. I Was the First Person in My Family to Be Baptised into the Presbyterian Church.

‘Most Suits Here Are Glued Together’: Newcomer on Hong Kong Tailoring

I Deliberately Failed My 11-Plus Exam Twice Because I Didn’t Want to Go to College, I Wanted to Be a Tailor. My Godfather Was the Vice-Principal of the Presbyterian College and Offered to Get Me in Even Though I’d Failed My Exam. I Didn’t Want to Go and Told the Girl Next Door That If I Was Sent to College, I’d Play Truant Every Day. She Told Her Mum Who Told Mine and My Parents Relented.

The Seeds of Ambition

I Wanted to Learn to Make Jackets. My Mother Asked the Tailor Who I Made the Trousers for If He’d Teach Me but He Said No Because I Was Earning Good Money for Him Making Trousers. Another Tailor Offered to Teach Me to Make Jackets.

Why Tailor-Made Shirts for Women in Hong Kong Are Luxury Itself

My Mother Called the First Tailor and Asked Him to Take Me Back and Not Only Did He Refuse, He Said, “I’ll See That He Doesn’t Get Another Opportunity. ” I Was Home Unemployed for Months and Spent My Time in the Forest with a Couple of Kids Climbing Trees.

I Arrived in the Uk on a Friday and Got the Train to Waterloo and Found Digs in the Attic of a Friend. on the Monday, I Wore a Suit I’d Made and Went Looking for Savile Row with a London a to Z. There Were About 40 Addresses on the Street, and They Were All Tailors.

How Tailors Made ‘Matchee-Matchee’ the Signature Hong Kong Look

I Was Very Lonely When I First Arrived in London. I Had No Relations and Was Very Homesick. the First Person I Met, I Married. She Was a Nurse. I Was 21 When We Married and a Student. We Went on to Have Two Children and Stayed Together Until 2010.

Why Sammy Davis Jr Loved Hong Kong: ‘Finest Tailors in the World’

In 1976, I Developed a Parallel Career at the London College of Fashion, Teaching Three Evenings a Week. I Was Also Working Full Time at Maurice Sedwell and Had a Saturday Job Making Suits and Trousers – Working and Saving as Hard as I Could.

In 2008, a Gentleman by the Name of Keith Rowley Came into My Shop. He’d Been Told There Was a Fellow Trinidadian on the Row. He Didn’t Have the Money to Buy a Suit, but I Noticed There Was a Button Missing on His Blazer and Changed the Buttons for Him.

Tailor Went from Sewing Pants at 13 to Dressing Princess Diana, Hollywood Stars on Savile Row – ‘I’m Living My Dream, ’ Says Andrew Ramroop

By Sarah Jenkins

• Oct 8, 2026 • 9 min read

Tailor Went from Sewing Pants at 13 to Dressing Princess Diana, Hollywood Stars on Savile Row – ‘I’m Living My Dream, ’ Says Andrew Ramroop

Direct Answer • Key Takeaway

My Mum Washed Clothes in the Nearby Stream, Beat Them on the Rocks and Hung Them to Dry. Daddy Cycled a 26-Mile (42 Kilometres) Return Trip Every Day to a Guest House Where He Worked as a Gardener, Barman and Cleaner and Had a Stall Selling Fruits, Vegetables and Confectionery.

Sarah Jenkins

Senior Technology Editor & AI Specialist

Sarah Jenkins is a veteran tech journalist with over 12 years of experience covering artificial intelligence, mobile innovations, and digital ethics. Her insights have appeared in leading technology publications worldwide.

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