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Thailand tailors get a very bad rap. Most of the great tailors in that part of the world are in Hong Kong or Japan generally. Neither of which are particularly close.
If you're just buying clothes to swoop, by all means, do Thailand. But if you're doing business with men who wear suits, they'll notice how bad the suits are.
>How do you differentiate a good tailor from a chump?
>Good fabric from mediocre?
At your stage in the game, you probably can't distinguish either
- working jacket buttons
- hand sewn button holes
- fully canvased
- spalla camicia? roped, natural, shoulders?
- high arm holes
- deep gorges
- properly ironed lapels
- where the lapel fits on the suit - if it's high up, it's harder to do
With fabric, you want good "hand", which means it feels good in your hands. #'s mean nothing. (super 120's super 150's are marketing garbage) Mills might mean something, but then you have to learn about all the different wool mills.
And then even if you understand construction, you need to understand design, design for yourself, and consider use.
I would personally hold off, unless you desperately need suits. Especially if you're looking for investment suits, and by the time you hit 40, most of those suits won't fit.
Thailand tailors get a very bad rap. Most of the great tailors in that part of the world are in Hong Kong or Japan generally. Neither of which are particularly close.
If you're just buying clothes to swoop, by all means, do Thailand. But if you're doing business with men who wear suits, they'll notice how bad the suits are.
>How do you differentiate a good tailor from a chump?
>Good fabric from mediocre?
At your stage in the game, you probably can't distinguish either
- working jacket buttons
- hand sewn button holes
- fully canvased
- spalla camicia? roped, natural, shoulders?
- high arm holes
- deep gorges
- properly ironed lapels
- where the lapel fits on the suit - if it's high up, it's harder to do
With fabric, you want good "hand", which means it feels good in your hands. #'s mean nothing. (super 120's super 150's are marketing garbage) Mills might mean something, but then you have to learn about all the different wool mills.
And then even if you understand construction, you need to understand design, design for yourself, and consider use.
I would personally hold off, unless you desperately need suits. Especially if you're looking for investment suits, and by the time you hit 40, most of those suits won't fit.