Horace, I would like to know the prices if its not too much trouble.  My father is now joining me on this section of the trip and will also be getting a suit made.  Do you know where the gentleman who you recently saw with such a nice SR cut suit had it made?  I am leaning toward Chan at this point just because of the US visits since it is pretty easy for me to get over to LA.

Shooman, I actually was never able to get the Cleverley shoes.  It just didn't work out for various reasons at the time so I think I will save bespoke shoes for a time down the road.  However, I could not be happier with the Leonard Logsdail suit and Paris custom Shirts.  Both are truly wonderful to work with and produce top notch products.  I would recommend both of them strongly to anybody.  They both went through great thought and effort to produce what I wanted them to produce while also being great advisers for both fabric and stylistic choices.  the construction of the Paris shirts is incredible sturdy too especially considering the cloths I purchased.  I think from now on I will go with slightly less fine cloths for shirts because they do wrinkle more than I would like and I often wear them without a jacket, but that is no fault of Paris.  They did an amazing job with the size and shape of the collar, my face just looks so much more attractive when a Paris collar is around my neck.  Paris also has an astounding selection of cloth on hand.  Leonard is incredibly accommodating and wonderful to work with.  He really does a good job of adjusting things about the suit for your particular body and is an absolute expert fitter.  It is a very british look which is what I wanted but he did a great job of adjusting the padding and roping in the shoulder since I have very broad and strong shoulder from football. It has a very clean, trim look to it.  His knowledge of how a cloth will tailor is equally impressive and really helps in choosing your fabric (I went with a Smith woolens super 120s worsted in a very deep navy with a slight herringbone in it that gives it a nice texture and vertical self stripe look to it).  I have also had some ties made by John Kochis.  I really like them as most ties are not long enough since I am 6'6".  Its really fun to choose tie fabrics and he is really good at judging your style and helping to go through the silks, which can be overwhelming because of the vast selection.

Shooman, you say Chan seems hit or miss so do you have any opinions on Yao or AMHC?  I ask because I have done bespoke and will be able to be very clear about what I want and understand the process, however, it will be my father's first time and I want to make sure we go to the one that will be best for him as a first timer.

^^^  You were using Corvato for awhile too, IIRC.  Are you now only going with Chan?  They seem to do a really nice job for a good number of customers, although, as you said earlier, they are not stylists.  I sometimes wonder what they think of some of the more avant garde stuff some forum members have had made up.

I still use Corvato, with great satisfaction, especially for my unusual or expensive cloths, not readily available at Chan (Chan stopped accepting customer's own material since they got burned by some of our peers supplying defective or irregular cloths, then crying foul). With Mr. Corvato you get more traditional hand holding, which is missing from the Chan experience. Mr. Corvato's hand holding is limited however, and he has not entered the "lifestyle" market with a cologne.

I've bought shirts from AC -- very near the AMHC shop.  I don't have the discriminating standards of others here, but I enjoy the shirts.  Shoes, no.  I remember someone telling me about a place that was supposed to be good, but this was sometime ago, at that time, the shoes were USD 500 when Lobbs were just over USD2000.

Haven't these questions been "asked and answered?"

I would go with Laboratorio Chan, and move on.

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