Harold Rose

I am Harold Rose, a tailor and the Managing Director of Alex Rose Fine Tailoring. It started out as a family business established in Leeds in 1945 by my father Alexander Rose and evolved to what it is now today. I joined the business in 1972 and have spent over fifty years in the tailoring trade, working across every aspect of garment manufacturing, from running a factory producing forty thousand made-to-measure suits a year at our peak, to the personal one-to-one tailoring service I offer today through our online platform at alexrose.uk. Over the decades I have navigated every major economic downturn in British history, from the three-day week and the winter of discontent through to the financial crash of 2008 and Covid-19, adapting the business each time to ensure it not only surviv...