Submitted by heycassi t3_10hi6eg in BuyItForLife
hbHPBbjvFK9w5D t1_j5dqe6i wrote
I've been buying bespoke for years now. No clothes that fall apart in a week, no fruitless searches for clothes that fit my style, no endless fittings. If I see something online that I want in a different color, with different touches, or in my size, I can just send a screen shot and they'll make a pattern and sew it.
Example - I wear a suit 7 days a week for work. My employer will even provide them - but they have all the class and style of prison uniforms. So I started thinking and researching. I realized that suits have been around for about 200 years, that they were at one time comfortable enough for officers to wear them to war, that butlers (think dalton abbey) were comfortable enough to do hard labor in them, and they've been around since before zippers. So I ordered suits with reinforced pockets on the jacket, deep pockets in the pants with canvas linings, extra trousers with each suit (cause the pants always wear out first anyway), and button fly on the trousers.
My three piece suits (actually 4 piece with the extra trousers), are less than mens warehouse prices, and have lasted me for almost 15 years. I also have jeans, oxford and casual shirts and overcoats that are made the same way.
I use makeyourownjeans.com, but there are a number of shops that are based in India, Hong Kong, and Singapore that are online and do this for similar prices.
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