Wildwood & Company Keeps The Traditional Craft of Hand Tailoring Alive In Oregon
In this edition of Making Oregon, our guest is Joe Mueller, founder and proprietor of the downtown Portland clothing maker Wildwood & Company. They make high-quality and stylish suits and shirts by hand in their on-site workshop, keeping the traditional craft of hand tailoring alive. A native of Banks, Oregon, Joe started Wildwood in 2014 after an impressive run as a lawyer – he graduated first in his New York law class and worked in top-notch law firms in New York City and in Portland. While in Portland he noticed that the long-time New York tradition of the “bespoke” suit, a suit handmade to the customer’s detailed specifications, was nowhere to be found in the Rose City, which sparked his entrepreneurial idea – Wildwood & Company. Our conversation takes place in Joe's wonderful lounge fitting room, a walnut-paneled lounge with posh leather furniture, and adorned with cool art, bolts of beautiful fabrics, and great scotch - a perfect complement to the stylish, traditional, high-class and hand-made suits Wildwood is making here in Oregon.