I am sort of surprised, hearing all these horror stories about famous-name bespoke tailoring establishments, at the generally high level of satisfaction expressed in the clothing fora for comparatively cheap Asian tailoring firms like Chan and Hemrajani.
Is this because most of the guys who use these firms have just graduated from $500 department store suits and simply have not cultivated the refined sensibilities to appreciate what differentiates truly fine bespoke tailoring from the products of the Asian houses, or what? Still, I have never seen any complaints about Chan, for example, that are remotely comparable to the horror stories told here about about Savile Row firms.
I fail to understand at that point what is the diff? When we say Bespoke hats we mean it ! For us bespoke entails so much more than something common in material, workmanship and service. Commoners can assertain a commonality about anywhere it is offered and that is not to be confused with what we call bespoke. I seem a bit taken aback here that all in the tailor world even have access to the same goods and call them bespoke. What we do is develop our goods for the persons ordering them. Sure we stock a couple hundred felt colors and a 100 grand in raw bodies at any given time but when we have a power customer that is seeking bespoke we order to suit their pallette and or develop what does not exist. That to me is bespoke and anything less is just commonality and commercial lines.
Seems reasonable to me that if a buyer is willing to lay down the coin and really wants bespoke they should be able to ask for and get a certain pantone true color match that they wish for custom dyed to their needs or wants and then have the raw goods shaped and styled to their exacting specifications. This is what bespoke as we understand it implies and anything less is just common.