Last edited by The_Shooman (2014-05-02 20:53:06)

Quite an extensive post in a more measured style and with no spelling eccentricities.

It is difficult to tell everything from a photograph. Many of those examples would look better if the suit was pressed. I have seen far worse than the bad examples cited.

I would agree that paying for bespoke does not automatically guarantee a better result than RTW with alterations, if you are a fairly standard size.

Sleeves are also far too short for my liking in "good suit" 11.

There are a couple of tailors who appear on this forum who I imagine would do the job without fail. For example, the Italian gent who posts here has some double breasted jackets that are infinitely better than the ones in this thread. However using a local tailor which, whilst still expensive, is obviously cheaper than travelling the world, can be risky.

Vox always looks immaculate in his photos.

I note that he is also very gifted with photoshop.

The two facts may or may not be correlated.

Last edited by prince nez (2014-05-05 20:28:36)

Theres your problem.

If you'd been drinking Irn Bru you'd be welcome with open arms

Fair comment - it is a decent looking suit. I don't like the shoulders though; perhaps that's subjective, but I wouldn't personally get excited by it.

I consider the double breasteds by the Italian tailor who posts on here to be infinitely better. Maybe that's more to do with a difference in style and/or my personal taste.

Nice story. You Arkwright or Granville?