I've gone for it! Light brown H&S cotton job. Already got a pair of strides done there that have turned out great so have ordered a suit this afternoon.

The guy doing the measuring used to do it for Canali MTM service. Quite impressed with what the store offered with regards to what can be altered from the try on model. Six weeks for the suit to be finished. Fingers crossed.

I get Proper Cloth's newsletters. Never tried them though.

These stores seem the way forward. The guy that owns the shop had a very open chat with me...He said they were making small alterations to last seasons coats and suits, things like button stance and extending the shoulder line. The guy incharge of the MTM was really on the ball, like I say he did the same job for Canali, there was some other brand he mentioned as well but thats slipped my mind. March 14/15th they have an Attolini trunk show which I'll be at but doubt I'll make an order. I did try on a coat which was really nice and great across the shoulders. My trouble is I'm 6'5" so I really need a MTM. Though a Canali 50l 7drop is a good fit on me. Attolini MTM starts at 40 000nkr, think that about $6000ish so thats out the question for me. Maybe when my ship comes in. Next time I'm in the shop I'll take some pictures of their own range. Some really great stuff.

I went to collect the suit yesterday. When it came out the back of the shop on the hanger it looked wonderful. Great lapels and notching on the coat. Trousers were bang on, the coat on the other hand was a big fat fail. Far too tight across the waist and short in the sleeve. Very disappointing. The coat measured 47 across the waist but the measurement taken was a larger but still a sexy framed 51. So the fault lays with the factory production. Sleeve was 0.5cm short, which could have been altered at the shop without losing balance between the bottom button and cuff. However, the sleeve would still have been shorter than I'd have liked which I did say when being measured but some some reason I let the measurer convince me otherwise. I think we both knew I was correct when I tried the coat on. Pictures have been taken of the measuring tape across the waist of the coat and will be sent to the makers. I've be told a new coat will be made to the correct waist measurement with an added 3cm on sleeve length. Yes, it was that short even without the lost 0.5cm. I wanted the suit for a jolly up early in June and have been assured I'll get the replacement in time and will get a phone call Monday evening to confirm date.

On the plus side the back was lovely and clean, shoulders were excellent, I had wondered how the shoulders would work out as I have a drop shoulder and the shoulders were extended from the try on model and brought forward. This seemed quite a complex operation during measuring but worked out bang on. The cloth was great made up and notching along the patch pockets, lapels, "little boat" chest pocket looks great. I'm very happy with the 3/2 roll and lapel proportion. Trousers were spot on, nice taper and fit. I had a pair already made by them which I was happy with and wore for measuring for the suit and had a sight alteration made to the front rise which has got the fit totally perfect.

Overall of course I'm disappointed, hopefully the new coat comes back correctly made and the story will have a happy ending.

Last edited by Goodyear welt (2018-04-22 03:49:06)

Glad you got it all sorted out, hard to tell everything in those pics but it looks like it fits you well, the close-up pic is nice... These places do love pick-stitching...

Nice color too. Great success!

The suit looks good GW - but that tie isn't mod.