Seeing how this thread has turned, it'd be wise for me to bow out gracefully, and wish you all the best.
For context --
marburyvmadison wrote:If we are talking solely about London, I do believe that there are better value tailors that are superior to GB. But I'll save that for another topic, with pictures. Some seasoned forum posters use (used) them already. Still, why constrain one's self to London?
bond_and_beyond wrote:That's easy: Your argument is that there are better value tailors out there at GB's price point. Prove it!marburyvmadison wrote:For the fun of it -- if you can clearly articulate how my letting the so called 'secret' out of the bag will substantiate the point I've been making, I'll reveal the tailor.aston wrote:Marburyvmadison
I think you have already sullied another tailor's reputation.
If you know better, why not tell us?
BB
For contextmarburyvmadison wrote:That wasn't my main argument? Where were you schooled in legal thinking again?
marburyvmadison wrote:
BB, I think you neglected my point that I have two friends who have used GB, and the fit was quite terrible. I think talk is cheap so I shall try to organize a meeting and try and take pictures of their suits, weird as it may be. I don't think they went back to get the problems fixed.
Like has been said, nothing justifies GB letting that fella as well as the suits on two of my friends out of the door like that. I may have been influenced by the three terribly fitting suits by him that I've encountered. But that is, unfortunately, my account of it.
*For all purposes, I'd like to point that, in several posts that have been made, and even in Aston's comment, he did say that 'If you know what you want, and especially what you do not want, I think they do a pretty good job'. This speaks to the customer who has some rudimentary knowledge of how he wants his suit to fit, and not the uninitiated novice (like my two friends, and probably a couple other posters), who left everything to GB, were left with suits that fit terribly.
I just think that when it boils down to fundamental issues of fit, whether or not something is to be gained out of the extra work put in, and whether or not the inexperienced customer might be able to see the faults in it, the cutter/tailor should do it to his best. To be a tailor in the 'old' sense of the word.