Brooklyn Bespoke

[old henry]

His craftsmanship may be the best. I don’t know. I trust John Kent

[DavidS]

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[old henry]

David, I appreciated for 10 years, with great love and reverence for the craft and my teachers, before I made a coat for a customer %100 by myself. . The guy was a Henry Stewart customer. This is measuring. Drafting a pattern from the Mitchell System. Cutting. Fitting. Using all of the old hand methods. Setting sleeves and collar. Do you know how long it take to learn to cut a sleeve to fit an armhole. ? And then to set it ? . Not four days a week for 10 months. Do you know how long it takes to learn to apply a facing by hand ? It’s not like the Maestro shows you once and you know. You must do it for years to get it into your hands. I know nothing. My hands know. It’s sacred shit folks. Sacred shit is not in todays AI world where you cut and paste your understanding of things. Where you bypass the life of things. Do you know how long it takes to assess a customers structure and attitude and put him onto pattern paper ? To be a real cutter. Years and years and years and years of doing. And being instructed by Toninno and Raphael.
If Toninno and Raphael were still around I’d still be apprenticing. Happily.
Tailoring is not learned. It is absorbed through eager hands over hours days and years. My eyes know glorified MTM when the see it. “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining”.
On a side note......Sartorial Mavens resent ,very much, being told that they know very little.

Frank Shattuck. A timid humble tailor.

[DavidS]

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[old henry]

You’re an elite craftsman. Far more serious than what I do. But understanding a craft can’t be cut and pasted like much else today. It takes many years. Functional craft tales years. For your hands to lead you. One can be a fake tailor ( as we all know ) but not a fake surgeon.