Cord Homme

Cord Homme's own title tag calls it "Costume italien, Tailleur Homme sur Mesure Mariage Genève," and the meta description underneath is more precise: a boutique specializing in Italian suits for men, made to measure for events, evenings, business or weddings. That positioning shows up structurally on the homepage, which runs 2 suit galleries side by side rather than treating a wedding suit as an add-on to an everyday one. One tile, "Costume Mariage" on the homepage and "Cérémonie" in the main navigation, is a dedicated wedding and ceremony collection. The other, "Costume Ville," is the everyday business line. Both run through the same made-to-measure process described on the shop's own "Sur mesure" page; what changes between the 2 galleries is which fabrics and cuts get sorted into each, not how the suit gets made. The shop trades from one address, 29 rue de Coutance, in the 1201 postal district of central Genève, and doesn't operate anywhere else.

"Sur mesure" is the only term the site ever uses for this. "Bespoke" doesn't appear anywhere, in French or English, across any of the pages this listing was built from, and that matters: bespoke usually implies a pattern hand-drafted from scratch, and Cord Homme never claims that. What the shop does spell out, on a page headed "la seule limite de votre costume est votre imagination" (the only limit on your suit is your imagination), is the customization menu shared by the Mariage and Ville lines alike: more than 800 fabric references, a lining range it calls close to a hundred choices running from classic to unusual, buttons in metal, horn, leather, mother-of-pearl, coloured or plain finishes, and an Alcantara option, a brushed suede-like trim applied to elbows, collar, pocket flaps or buttonholes for a sportier finish. Open or contrasting buttonholes, contrasting vents, contrasting topstitching, contrasting body and sleeve linings and monogram embroidery are all offered too. None of it carries a price.

32 photographs against a wall of fabric

The Cérémonie gallery itself, the page behind the "Costume Mariage" tile, shows 32 individual style photographs, each tagged with nothing but a bare product code; there's no colour, cut or fabric description in the image alt text on any of them, checked directly in the raw page source. Read against the "800-plus references" the sur-mesure page describes, that reads as a preview rather than the actual offering, the same relationship the waistcoat page states outright about its own gallery, calling what it shows "un petit échantillon," a small sample, of a separate 500-plus-reference fabric library. The Ville business-suit gallery is smaller again, 13 photographs in the same bare-code style. Browsing either line online tells you the shape of the collection; settling on an actual fabric and finish reads as something meant to happen at the shop itself, in front of the reference books, not from a product photo.

Waistcoats, shirts and shoes finish the outfit, with one gap

The waistcoat page's own title names the cuts on offer without needing a paragraph to explain them: droit (straight), croisé (double-breasted), frac (tailcoat), à revers (lapel-front) and col châle (shawl collar), plus silk among the fabrics. Its "petit échantillon" shows 11 waistcoat photographs pulled from that 500-plus-reference library. The ceremony shirt line is narrower still: just 2 cuts, each offered in white or ivory, 4 photographs in total. Shoes get their own page, hand-sewn or Blake-stitched Richelieu and Derby styles finished with tassels or pompoms, 28 photographs' worth, but the word "sur mesure" never appears on that page or in its title the way it does for suits and shirts; the site never says whether a pair is built to measure or sold in stock sizing, worth confirming directly if fit matters as much for the shoes as the suit. Everything else a groom might need is folded into the same navigation without its own dedicated page: bow ties in plain and patterned fabrics, cummerbunds, cufflinks, braces, socks, belts, ties (plain with a matching pocket square, or patterned) and pocket squares sold on their own.

No price, no lead time, no fitting count, no hire

Across all 8 pages this listing draws on, Cord Homme prints no price for a suit, a shirt, a waistcoat or a pair of shoes, and no fabric mill or house brand is named anywhere. More pointedly for a couple planning around flights: nothing on the site states a production lead time or turnaround, and nothing states how many fitting appointments a commission involves. Neither figure is guessable from what's published, so book the first visit with time to spare rather than assuming a number. There's no mention anywhere of a travelling or visiting fitting, so a first appointment means a trip to rue de Coutance. And there's no hire or rental option in the navigation or on any page: everything sold here, suit, shirt, waistcoat or shoes, is a purchase the client keeps, never a garment returned after the wedding.

Booking a fitting in French, from Geneva only

The shop opens Monday 10:00 to 12:15 and 13:15 to 18:45, Tuesday to Friday 09:00 to 12:15 and 13:15 to 18:45, and Saturday 09:00 to 18:00 without a midday break; nothing is published for Sunday. Contact runs through a Geneva landline and an email inbox, both listed on every page. Every page checked for this listing, the homepage and all 6 product pages, is written in French only: no language switcher, no English navigation, no English sentence found anywhere. A foreign couple relying on English service needs to ask directly before booking rather than assume it. The shop's own site history backs up that it's actively run, not a dormant listing: its sitemap shows the wedding-suit page edited in February 2026 and the shoe page edited later the same month, both well inside the current year, in contrast to the "News" section, whose only visible entry dates back to a blog that hasn't been touched since 2017.

What Cord Homme earns credit for is depth in one place: a genuinely large, named fabric library split across 2 dedicated wedding and business galleries, a real customization menu down to button material and contrast stitching, and a full ceremony wardrobe, waistcoats through pocket squares, sold from one Geneva address rather than assembled across several suppliers. What it asks in return is that a couple do the legwork itself. Nothing about price, timing, fitting count or English service is written down anywhere on the site, so the only way to get any of those answers is to call or write ahead in French and get them in writing before booking flights around a date this shop has never promised it can meet.