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"When a tie is fitted up into the collar, its points should be long enough to remain in contact with the shirt's body, regardless of how sharply the wearer turns his head." from Alan Flusser, Style and the Man This has always been the case with my custom or MTM shirts, but I just received a sample s...

Quoting Manton's Why Custom article from the CTDA website: Trousers seem easy to fit, but in fact are the hardest of all. They seem easy because 99% of ready-to-wear trousers are cut incorrectly, to ride down at the hips. But this is a bad look for all save the very young and very slim. Nonetheless,...

Dopey, can trousers be altered to accomplish this? I am not an expert on the alteration process nor do I look carefully at the construction of RTW trousers, but if the trousers you are looking at have darts to shape the seat and make the waistline narrower than the hips and seat, then I assume you ...

Dopey, can trousers be altered to accomplish this? At the moment, my waist and hips are almost twins, so I will need some slimming to go belt-less and brace-less.

On a recent trip to Venanzi in New York, I took a look at their trousers to get some ideas about how I might like my own trousers made (my tailor suggested I try as many as I could before settling on the design details of the ones he will make). They were decent but did not come with brace buttons. ...

After reading and learning from LL for the past few months, I have finally become a member. It is a pleasure to be with you all. I have questions regarding design of dress shirts. About a year ago I bought my first custom shirts (two, to be exact) from a local shop in New Jersey after many dissatisf...