cheap tailors

swears

swears

preppy-kei
Well not so much cheap as reasonably priced, I would spend around £400 on a suit, tops.
Any suggestions? I'd be willing to travel anywhere in the UK, London is the main place I suppose.
 
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Edward

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To be honest I don't think you'll get a bespoke suit for that amount.
Buy something you like off the shelf and pay someone to alter it for you.

Or else wait until you're in Taiwan where you get lovely tailored stuff really cheap.
 
swears

swears

preppy-kei
Yeah, I know you're usually looking at around at least a grand for a bespoke suit, but I have heard of budget places that do them for less than £500. There's nothing I like off the rack anyway, I have a very specific look and fit in mind.
 
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dHarry

Well-known member
There used to be a Hong Kong tailor's website where you could send your measurements and choose a style from templates and fabric/lining, and they'd make it to measure and post it to you. Also you could post a shirt and they'd copy it and send it back. :cool:
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
swears said:
Well not so much cheap as reasonably priced, I would spend around £400 on a suit, tops.
Any suggestions? I'd be willing to travel anywhere in the UK, London is the main place I suppose.
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Let me know if yer find any swears, can't help. I saved up and bought a ridiculously expensive one and have never regretted it. It's worth waiting for.

Or write to GQ and get their advice? I'm sure they must have some good tips
 
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mms

sometimes
there is a greek tailor in kings cross.
will do suits for about £500 i think , i'll ask my mate who got a suit made there recently hold on..

otherwise thailand and hong kong etc are good places.
 
sufi

sufi

lala
dHarry said:
There used to be a Hong Kong tailor's website where you could send your measurements and choose a style from templates and fabric/lining, and they'd make it to measure and post it to you. Also you could post a shirt and they'd copy it and send it back. :cool:
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raja daswani:cool:
 
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bassnation

the abyss
swears said:
Yeah, I know you're usually looking at around at least a grand for a bespoke suit, but I have heard of budget places that do them for less than £500. There's nothing I like off the rack anyway, I have a very specific look and fit in mind.
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what kind of look and fit do you want out of interest?
 
swears

swears

preppy-kei
Bassnation:

I want a very skinny fitted pale gray new-wave sort of thing with very thin lapels and almost drainpipe kecks. I haven't seen anything on the racks like that. I'd lke it to fit perfectly, anyway.
 
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hundredmillionlifetimes

Banned
Edward said:
To be honest I don't think you'll get a bespoke suit for that amount.
Buy something you like off the shelf and pay someone to alter it for you.

Or else wait until you're in Taiwan where you get lovely tailored stuff really cheap.
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Mods, please can this person be banned? I know he sometimes posts some suitably infantile garbage appropriate for the present terminal state of this forum, but he's really off the rails and making Dissensus a miserable place to visit at the moment.

thanks
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
I have noted your request. Perhaps you could now desist from adding it to every single thread that edward posts on.
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
A NOTE FOR EVERYONE

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Dissensus doesn't work on the basis that if someone puts up 16 requests to ban a poster that they will get banned. Or any number.
 
swears

swears

preppy-kei
I ended up buying a grey new wave style suit in Topman for £120. :slanted:

I might get a local tailor to alter it a bit, seems OK.

I hate Topman in general, but this is the only place near me where you can find this style. It doesn't have an eagle or "Legend" in gothic letters silk-screened on the back either, so that's a bonus.
 
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Lichen

Well-known member
swears said:
. It doesn't have an eagle or "Legend" in gothic letters silk-screened on the back
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too bad. maybe you could have them added or make your own stencil and do it at home.

if it doesn't have semi-legible gibberish plastered all over it, it's not really clothes.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Lichen said:
too bad. maybe you could have them added or make your own stencil and do it at home.
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Hahaha. :)

Point seconded, it's getting ridiculous. I feel myself getting the urge to say things to people like "Wow, what was it like to be a lifeguard on Long Beach in 1972? And you must look after yourself very well, you like you weren't even born then!"
 
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