20 secrets that your tailor does not tell you

Sorry, but you probably use the word "Bespoke" bad.


Good tailors are masters of the smallest details. They have eagle eyes that can identify a point on the place or the slightest difference in color or quality. With such skill for small things, it's not surprising that these pros often keep theirreal Opinions on the choices and preferences of their customers on the chest.

In fact, there is a lot of a good tailor will not tell you, from what a buttonhole says about the quality of a suit to what they arereally Measure with this band. So read the following, and learn. And for a larger style blanket, check out the40 best tips for dressing well in your forties.

1
Do not say "Bespoke" when you mean "Made-to-Measure"

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The words have a meaningful meaning, and while "custom" is fashionable in all, lunch menus clothing, often, customers use when they really mean made custom.

The latter is a costume based on motifs together which is then adapted to the exact measures of the customer. Bespoke costumes are created from zero, cut to your exact shape (they are also much more expensive, so if you are good with MTM, save you a little money and ask that). And for more tips on looking for your best in a suit, take a look at the7 MUST-HAVE INSPIRATION VINTAGE WATCHES.

2
You should really know what you want

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Tailors have their specialties, and give you a better job if you know that when you enter into play. Do not go to an Italian manufacturer costume asking for a structured shoulder pocket and flap (more typical American or British costume styles). Do your research on the tailor before heading in.

3
Bullet a suit to be sure she is good quality

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This is another way to check the quality: if you turn a burst suit, you can say if it is made from high quality materials by the fact that it does not stop immediately. If Balling It up creates wrinkles that do not go, the material is lower than normal. And the suits under-by are undoubtedly one of the40 things no man should never bring to work.

4
Check the collar

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To check the skill with which a jacket has been done, return the neck and check if the sewing below is handmade. If she made the machine, you have a cheap costume in the hand.

5
A buttonhole can tell you a bunch

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A tailor can say a good costume often looking no further than the buttonholes. If she is frayed, sewn with the machine, or badly by hand, you may want to upgrade.

6
They silently read your posture

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It's not just the numbers on their measurement band that helps a tailor-made makeup decision on the costumes they create look at your posture, the type of body, and more.

"A renowned tailor will take note of the figuration of a customer," customizedRichard Anderson, author ofBespoke: Savile row ripped and smoothed,told CNN. "In addition to standard measures, we seek to see if the legs are arcued or the shoulder is less than the other. This is subtly, and we do not say anything. »

7
You can get good costumes the rack

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Bespoke can be the ideal for a suit, but some couturiers can admit that you can get a very good costume the rack, if you know what to get.

"We always say to the guests to go to our shop first and try our costumes out of the rack. If the big and fitness that you like style, then there is no reason to go custom, "Daniel LewisCo-founder ofBrooklyn Tailors, RecountMen's newspaper. "We do not want to pay customers extra money and take longer if it is not necessary. »

8
You do not get into your custom costume

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Some guys who buy a new costume concern that these specific measures to say that they are a big meal couple away from the thing are no longer adapted. These fears are misplaced. "Costumes can absolutely be changed if your weight or fluctuate stylistic preferences change," Lewisplayful. Of course, it's in reason.

9
Plastic buttons are bad news

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Like seams sewn machine, plastic buttons are often a dead donation for a poor quality holding dry easily and is lighter than superior materials like the corozo or corozo. It's not always easy to discern the difference, but a good tailor will know.

10
They are not like making fashion costumes

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Tailors generally feel that you should buy a costume that goes last years, not a season, asking for a suit to follow the latest trends will annoy your tailor (if they are a good that is all classic, long a durable style) and will end up Cost you more when you have to replace the thing in one year. A little branchitude is good, but be housed according to the last style.

11
What you really look like as

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You may want to fill a suit like David Beckham, but if you have an intestine, it will show when you try to dress up like him. Instead, select a combination that actually works with your body type. A tailor may not want to point out that the slim-adjustment you love, is just not for you, then it's up to you to choose to be honest with yourself.

"Meanful people should avoid broad setbacks, thin ventilats of people,"Neil McCann, owner of McCannBespoke on Shaftesbury Avenue In London, saysThe week."Short people should avoid too long jackets. Large people should avoid too short pants."

12
They expect to change it themselves

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If you bought a costume of a particular tailor and like the job, why are you going to go elsewhere when you need a change? Just because it could be a little cheaper, you're not going to win any points with your tailor if you get another type to adjust the job it has done - and the level of different quality is likely to show.

13
Money can not buy you style

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Written forTrue genuine men styleItalian tailorMario Natella explains that "money is not the key for you to dress up and not to cover ... you must know yourself, your body, your faults and you are the one who should use the money, the mark and the Tailors to give you the best feeling and the best comfort ever. "

14
They like that if you know the lingo

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Study on the customized common conditions, use the difference between a complete pause and a quarter pause, between any vent and double ventilation. Having a clear understanding of these differences and the impact they will do on your global look will make you take more seriously by the tailor and as and in the end, drive a better combination.

15
They do not like impatience

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To get an excellent suitable suit properly, it may require 15-20 body measurements taken on two to four connections. If you try to get an immediately whipped suit, the lack of quality and quality time is to circumvent the final result.

16
They do not want you to wear sneakers

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You should wear the shoes and shirt you wear with the costume, and perhaps even Cologne to help create the complete effect. Cut your hair and shave too, while you are there.

17
They appreciate photos

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Unless you really know how to describe what you are looking for, the photos are often a better friend of a tailor, helping to show clearly what you want and the style you are aiming in your costume. The visuals are valuable.

18
They wait for you to know of the basics

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If you are looking for a quality tailor, do not walk in their store while waiting for you to educate if you should get an adjusted jacket or where your pants should break. A tailor can help you understand that, of course, but you will take you much more seriously if you enter with a basic knowledge of the components of a good belief you are looking for.

19
Check the lining

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Any custom measure can tell you that there are gifts to say if a combination of designer is actually a combination of designer and not an impetus. They should have a "canvas" (material located between the fabric and the lining that gives its structure). In a cheap combination, the lining may have been pasted, rather than sewn to a jacket. You can check by pinching around the holes of upper buttons of the chestpiece. If you can clearly feel a piece of separate material, it's good.This video usefully shows the difference between $ 100 and a combination of $ 1,000.

20
The best customers are partners for life

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Great tailors see a good customer as a relationship of life. They are not there simply to help you get a modified jacket, but to work together on the long run. "We do not call a customer a client before being back a second time" Henry Poole Management ManagerSimon Cuney CNN says. If you want to be taken seriously, know that it will take time. For more fashion advice in the future, check the38 things that no man over 40 years old should never wear.

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