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Greetings gentlemen,

As I am living in Paris for the next three months, I have decided that now is a good time to venture into bespoke suiting. I've been wanting to do this for some time, but the market where I normally live is somewhat limited. But bespoking-ly spoken, Paris can be somewhat confusing. There's the obvious top-of-the-trade gents at Charvet or Champs de Luca as well as small, dodgy looking spaces. It's fairly easy to determine that the product you'll get from Charvet will be excellent, but in the latter category it's more difficult to discern the ones that really are dodgy from the actually quite good ones.

So I thought that this place would be the perfect place to ask if anyone could enlighten me on the selection of Parisian tailleurs?

Ps. I apologise if this has been brought up before, but I tried using the search function and looked trough ten-or-so pages, but I couldn't find anything that satisfied my needs sufficiently.

HI JS,

Welcome to the LL.

I recently went on an expedition to Rouen in Normandy where I found two excellent tailors: one French and one Sicilian. Bespoke tailors in Paris are pretty dear. The work I saw in Rouen was very good for a fraction of Paris prices.

Michael

Someone will probably mention that Monsieur magazine did a profile of most of the Parisian bespoke tailors a few years ago. However, it's of very limited use except as a reference for the relative price ranges of the tailors named since there doesn't seem to be any real critical evaluation of the tailors listed apart from PR spiel.

Andre Marcel in Rouen is a tailor about whom I've read good things and he is much cheaper than the Parisian full bespoke tailors.