How to Select a Quality Tailor

How to Select a Quality Tailor monkeysee.com See how the experts do it. Hi my name is Matt Landsberg of Eric Finn Custom Clothiers. I’m talking about how to buy a suit and how to buy a suit that fits well. Specifically right now I’ll talk about how to find a tailor so for those people who want to have a suit made for them what should you look for and what should you talk about when talking to a tailor to have something made. First thing to know is communication is key, If you have any particular aspects that you’re concerned about whether it would be how something fits or how something has been ill fitting when you bought it off the rack, bring those things up, those are important for him or her to know. You also want to talk about things that parts of the suit or shirt that may not wear as well. For example if you have a wallet in your pocket and a sizable wallet in your back pocket which you shouldn’t do and you have a tendency to wear that area thin you may want to bring that out with tailor so that they know, okay we would better reinforce the pocket. Another example is the elbow, I’ve got a client who used to buy suits off the rack and always worked through the elbow of his suit, okay we could adjust for that and we reinforced the elbow so it wasn’t an issue anymore. Another thing you might want to do when trying to have a suit made for you is bring a picture, if you have seen suit on somebody on a model, on a magazine take it out and cut it with you so that you can show them specific aspects of the suit you like, the button stance, how the lapels look or any other specific feature of that suit. Another simple thing to think about is just how well do you like the guy or woman. I mean if they’re easy to work with and you have a good rapport that’s a good start. Some people just don’t jive well with somebody that they just met and that leads to potential friction down the road is fitting or minor details that’s going to be taken care off. You also want to ask how many fittings do they do, they just create the suit from start to finish and say here you go, I know some place will just send suit to you after they measured you. Well chances are you’re probably going to have to do a little bit of fine tuning to get it exactly right. Another thing to is you want to make sure that this person is not just a sales person but they’re knowledgeable about the product. If you’re spending, you know at least several hundred dollars on a suit that’s being made for you make sure they know what’s going on. You may want to find and get some testimonials from other clients and see if you can see some finish product as well. It’s also helpful to talk to somebody who knows about current trends. If you want something that’s a little bit more current make sure that person knows what’s going on outside of just the old school tailoring method so it’s one of those things that you really want to keep in mind. Lastly, you want to make sure that the tailor or the company you’re working with has a policy of getting that right, there have been times that I’ve heard horror stories form clients and other people that a suit can be made and if client is not happy what are they going to do about it. Are they going to say, “tough luck” go from there or are they going to fix it for you. One of the things that we do is make sure our clients walk away happy. Worse case scenario if we take a hit and lose money on that, that sometimes happen but in a long run we want to build a relationship with a client. We’re going to make sure that they ‘re happy.