Maybe he has cloth that is not selling well that he wants to get rid of?

It is not a given that a tailor should have great taste in cloth. Some do of course.

This has never bothered me though because I have great taste in cloth

bishop, personally im not that fussy about pattern matching either, infact i would go as far as to say that mismatching in the case of pockets can actually look better for the simple reason that you can see the pocket clearly defined , whereas pattern matching means all the features of the jacket blend into the background as they are sort of camoflaged.

yes the tailor does seem to pattern match well .. although for reasons mentioned im not too concerned about this too much, im usually more interested in the structure and shape of the jacket so this is at the bottom of my list of things to fret about!

fruity

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Who did JS recommend to you?  I'd be interested to know.

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Thanks Oldfruit1 What you say makes a lot of sense, and your more charitable 'defensive' interpretation of their behaviour seems cogent.  The West End really is a jungle though: I must say I was impressed by the difference in attitude I found at John Simons.  I got there quite late in my UK career. 

Now I come to think of it, Clothes shops in Wales could be very strange, but then all shops in Wales are like that, they don't want you there basically, especially if they are cafes; those close for lunch down in my birthplace!  I ain't kiddin'

ha ha... "looking like a mechanic who has won the Pools"

yeah, actually Mario the tailor did an almost impossible job on that Rohan Suit.  I love them actually, they are 60%wool but have some weird synthetic things in them too.  One of the best suits I ever had was an off the shelf Tesco washable, 100% synthetic costing 25GBP about a decade ago.  I think they ripped off an Armani, a couple of years later the 'same' suit was a lot worse style wise, I think they were pulled up on it.  I used to get compliments on it would you believe.

Why I wanted a suit that would take the semi-tropics when I lived in North London I will never fathom, Hepcat 4F;  spookily I moved to Philadelphia a couple of years later where they come in really useful.  Oh and the salesman in Jos A Banks nearly spat at me when I asked them if they did washable suits.  All the dry-clean ones they had there were vile and cheap looking.  So I am reminded of another 'tailor story', well, sort of anyway...

I accept the Ivy rule of natural fibres in general though I suppose; I am, I suppose a modernist...?  I still can't see why hand stitching is such a big deal, though I see where it would be useful and better sometimes?