Savile Row's tailors are working overtime to alter bespoke £7,000 suits that no longer fit their Ozempic-taking clientele, a new report has revealed. The 'miracle' weight loss drug that was once Hollywood's best-kept secret is now easily available to anyone looking to drop a couple of sizes - and not just diabetes patients that jabs like Ozempic and Mounjaro were intended to help.
![[(Stock photo) It appears an unintended side effect of the drug has now struck some of Britain's known suitmakers, who are fed up with requests for repeat alterations from customers who have lost weight after taking these injections]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/21/10/94338015-14307851-image-a-14_1737453753237.jpg)
It appears an unintended side effect of the drug has now struck some of Britain's known suitmakers, who are fed up with requests for repeat alterations from customers who have lost weight after taking these injections. Terry Haste, of Kent and Haste, told The Times: 'It's been a nightmare.'.
![[The tailors added that the 'big worry' was that their workshops would be overrun by too-tight suits once customers went off Ozempic and gained back the weight they had once lost - a phenomenon known as 'Ozempic rebound']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/21/10/94338017-14307851-image-a-15_1737453765113.jpg)
The son of John Hitchcock, a Savile Row legend who counted King Charles among his clients, Steven Hitchcock explained that his newly lanky clients don't know what to do with their now-baggy and ill-fitting - but expensive - suits. One customer, the master tailor continues, has 100 suits that are 'around £7,000 a piece' and 'understandably doesn't want [them] to go waste'.
The problem is these custom creations aren't easy to trim and tweak and alterations mostly require overhauling the garment entirely. These requests often eat away from time that business owners on the famed London street could spend on new commissions; altering a suit costs around £1,600, clients would typically fork out between £5,000 and £7,000 on a replacement.
