MONTEREY, Calif. — For twenty years Nan Eastep has been a tailor, stitching clothes for her customers.
Two years ago she started making more and more clothes for people who rode bicycles, as she does herself. That’s what her customers were wearing and that’s what they wanted.
Now she’s making nothing but bike clothes for her label, B. Spoke Tailor, which is based in Oakland, Calif,. Eastep was exhibiting a range of her biking raincoats, vests and knickers here at the Sea Otter bike show.
“I’ve always been a tailor, but the more I rode, the more I made bike clothes. And that’s all I make now,” said Eastep, seen here modeling her $400 wax cotton raincoat for women.
Eastep is one of a several tailors catering to bikers. In London, Saville Row tailor Timothy Everest teamed up with Rapha to offer a $3,500 suit for biking, and Dashing Tweeds makes a special fabric that is interwoven with reflective yarn for biking clothes called Lumatwill.
Mountain bike legend Gary Fisher is among the gentlemen bikers who own suits made from Lumatwill.
Photos by Jim Merithew/Wired.com
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