Private banking and classic English tailoring have always been happy bedfellows.

Surely, this is one reason that the dreadful City scourge of dressing-down never really made any inroads into our dear old advisory business.

No decent bank would allow an adviser to call on clients wearing trainers although for ultra-private clients, some of us do wear hoodies when visiting in case a spy from a rival bank is snooping around.

The symbiosis between advisory and fine tailoring can perhaps be dated back to the establishment of Henry Poole & Co, the first tailor to set up on Savile Row. This is an honoured name am...