At the risk of sounding incredibly frugal, I had some bespoke suits made in India. They were actually pretty decent!
thickasthievesla.com
Come on, guys, no.
If you want bespoke suiting, it's Anderson & Sheppard and the like. The made in China stuff off a standard pattern is horrible.
For most men here, who should be pretty easy to fit, you can get good results with the MTM programs from Southwick (BB) and Samuelsohn. Because I prefer 3-roll-2 sack suits, most of my suiting is MTM by Martin Greenfield for J. Press. I take a 39R pattern and slim it down slightly and adjust for my high left shoulder. Pricepoint on this is about $1200 if you shop carefully. Find a quality men's store and go from there.
I find Samuelsohn MTM to be a great deal with great fabrics and good cuts; if you are NY-based, you will have to travel to Fairfield or some such. I think no one sells Samuelsohn labeled goods in NY, probably because of some sort of deal with Paul Stuart. Paul Stuart is all Samuelsohn-made, obviously.
English-American MTM is another option, though I have no personal experience.
If you ever find yourself in Hong Kong, I can highly recommend Moustache tailoring. The two guys who run it do all the fitting and then work with Hong Kong's historic tailors to finish it. Typically 5 to 6 fits so you need to either do a couple of trips there or have a nice long holiday and throw in a jaunt to Macau.
What I prefer about them to the usual Hong Kong tailors is that it is a good, lengthy interactive experience and they want to help you to get the fit you want. They also really care about the details so for the last suit I got made they spent weeks trying to find suitably interesting vintage silk liner fabrics. When it arrives in a couple of weeks I'll take a picture of the liner as it rocks.
Tom Walshe
Thanks for that info. I've never heard of them before, but I've been underwhelmed, even felt ripped-off by a few other local HK tailors over the years, so I'll check them out. (I'm sure the super premium ones, e.g. Ascot Chang, etc., are great, I wouldn't know). Judging from their website, they at least have a different sensibility from the cookie-cutter tourist-suit mills.
There used to be an astonishingly rubbish one in the basement of Star House in Tsim Sha Tsui (next to McDonald's...) that was so crooked, every time a USN ship was in there would be sailors in there complaining; at least once, that I witnessed, nearly getting in a fist fight. The police were called.
Last edited by EFHeath; 11-26-2012 at 08:47 AM. Reason: typo
C'mon!
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Go to Himark Martin Tailors for the best bespoke tailoring.You can get bespoke suits at reasonable prices.
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