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Not to be a jerk, but they messed up really bad on those lapels. Someone was hitting the sake when they cut that.
Seems like a trip to Budapest might pay for itself!HungaryTom said:A bespoke suit costs normally one months salary and it takes a month. It depends of what country's salaries we are talking about... City of London and Vienna are different from ours - so this is why prices also differ. The skill of the individual tailor practicing his trade since decades doesn't. The best thing is that the entire show costs something in the vicinity of 700-800 USD in toto including the fabric. Getting 2-3 is no mission impossible.
Doran said:I wrote to them. They wrote back . It turns out that I WAS WRONG.
For the suit-template I chose from had a THREE-BUTTON JACKET.
Somehow I got confused in the (short) wait and thought I'd ordered a 1-button jacket suit. WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Mysterious Mose said:Single button fly with five inch peaked lapels?
Mysterious Mose said:Single button fly with five inch peaked lapels?
Doran said:10 inches at the ankle. The cuff is 2 inches, not 12 inches.
The trousers are perfect. I must have said something that was misconstruable if what I said sounded like the trousers had 12 inch cuffs.
BellyTank said:Yeh- he said, "...what's wrong with the pants?"
12" cuffs- I was guessing.
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HungaryTom said:I am "geographically challenged" hence cut off from the vintage clothing market of the New World. So the only way to get a nice suit for me is to go bespoke. Locally. There is one nice fabric shop in Budapest who can recommend good bespoke tailors. Who can order even from a wider range of fabrics (Dormeuil, Holland&Sherry) from their catalogues.
I believe that bespoke can not be surpassed by 60+ years old thrift store items of dead factories. I am even less fascinated of becoming a label victim of designers who are not even tailors.
Every detail is designed and made for you - by the one and the same person who sees you and makes the fittings. In other words the entire suit is all about you... What more can you want?
The fabrics are mostly Dormeuil and other British makers, Italians, nothing less. Specialtex stock cashmere and wool one has to forgo muskox and vicuna, the "fiber of Gods".
As soon as the own divinification is accomplished and gold reserves are on par with Atahualpa Inca the next logical step of upgrading the wardrobe to fabrics from baby vicuna bellyhair can follow . In the meantime one has to satisfy himself with sheep and goat - 8 to 10 microns coarser fibers. Ad astra per aspera.
A bespoke suit costs normally one months salary and it takes a month. It depends of what country's salaries we are talking about... City of London and Vienna are different from ours - so this is why prices also differ. The skill of the individual tailor practicing his trade since decades doesn't. The best thing is that the entire show costs something in the vicinity of 700-800 USD in toto including the fabric. Getting 2-3 is no mission impossible. More aren't needed, this is what the tailor said- one has off the rack suits as well It can't always be caviar. Another thing that speaks against amassing bespoke in one size is that everybody is "oscillating in sizes" i.e. loosing/gaining weight.
There is nothing better than custom made in terms of value for money. Really.