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Walker Slater on Victoria Street, Edinburgh: the dark green shopfront at numbers 44 and 46
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Walker Slater, Edinburgh

The Edinburgh shops of the Scottish tweed tailor on Victoria Street, with menswear at 16-20 and womenswear at number 46.

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Walker Slater is a Scottish tweed tailor, and its Edinburgh home is on Victoria Street, the curving, colourful street that climbs from the Grassmarket towards the Royal Mile.

The company began in the Highlands, making hard-wearing clothes for remote communities facing the weather, and grew gently south to Edinburgh, Glasgow and London.

It makes timeless, understated clothes in tweed and woollen cloth, Harris Tweed among them: jackets, suits, waistcoats and coats, with knitwear, shirts and accessories. The menswear is at 16-20 Victoria Street, and the womenswear has a shop of its own at number 46.

A Walker Slater tweed cap or scarf is an easy present, and a jacket is the kind that lasts for decades.

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Opening hours

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Monday
10am–6pm
Tuesday
10am–6pm
Wednesday
10am–6pm
Thursday
10am–6pm
Friday
10am–6pm
Saturday
10am–6pm
Sunday
11am–6pm

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Where it is

16-20 Victoria Street, Edinburgh, EH1 2HG.

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