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Sorry, it if it matters ENOUGH to the client, and there is no doubt about the detail noted at the time of the commission, then the tailor should be gracious enough to accept they had made an error, even if their error fits beautifully, and offer a solution. . Resect for the craftsman, should in no ...

Anyway we have since gotten onto a discussion about how to interact with craftsmen. And for over a decade now, I have written that this is a subject of prime importance. Its vastly more important than any possible nit or nat a nitpicker can pick. Cheers In rereading the above quote from Michael, I ...

Although I'm sure he knows. I am not at all sure of this Frank. Every tailor I have ever known knew to ask which side I dressed and made the appropriate adjustments to the pattern. But here we have young clients who are stunned by the concept who have clearly never been asked. And they are going to...

alden wrote:

A good shirt will require as much if not more concentration than a suit.

Yeah I am quoting myself. And I am doing it because it occurred to me to double down on this point.
Cheers

Good advice is like good medicine, it only works if your take it.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4518/26768530909_6f0223acbc_b.jpg 55867 by The London Lounge , on Flickr This cloth is why I joined the cloth club. I realize this a not a LL creation, yet, I believe it is germane to the conversation. After much travel and dismay on this sartorial journey, I received...

People these days have no idea what true Benchmade is. BenchTailors are not around. 55 hours on one coat is unheard of. We sometime conflate bespoke and bench made; they are kissing cousins but not fungible terms. A true bench made suit is made by a master tailor; defined in the strictest sense as ...

Guys, your tailor knows his job better than you ever will. You have nothing to convey, or expect, inspire or challenge. He or she has done this job for decades, sometimes generations, and sometimes multiple generations. So just trust your tailor. But really trust them. Because trust is the greatest...

I just spoke with Jack's care taker; to paraphrase Mark Twain, The reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated. Jack is 100 years old, his wife is 95. Other then the dementia, he is healthy as a 100 year old man can be.

I knew Jack Taylor and his wife Bonnie; wonderful people. He became a little crotchety in his golden years; but he was always full of wonderful stories. I had 5 suites made by him. Jack was not a tailor, but his knowledge would rival that of any bench tailor. He had the “eye” of a tailor,(among othe...

Here is an article in the Gentleman's Gazette on the subject the might answer a lot of your questions.
http://www.gentlemansgazette.com/horizo ... irt-guide/

Would you be willing to share the name? Gasbarri? Trabalza? Centofanti? Couch, The tailor was Giacomo Trabalza. He was a wonderful man, I always told him I came to him for his stories, and got a suit to remember it by. Every suit that I have from him, has a wonderful story to go along with it. Rega...

I sometimes find the acceptance of quality issues on SR puzzling and also how much the client is supposed to work with the cutter, seeking to get him to understand his requirements. I think perhaps perspective has been lost. . I would concur. Why do we accept quality issues? I remember when I walke...

They are totally different cloths... This Cutter and Tailor thread is simply wrong. Well, it's the internet. After having read the article I am curious as to why you say that the cutter and tailor article is simply wrong.... it seems to provide a balance picture and offers another option, for peopl...

Manself wrote:I have just discovered that Holland & Sherry still have a 17oz cream flannel - a sample is on its way to me.

do you have the reference number for this cloth?

Thank you.

have you tried Harvie and Hudson