Latest Ascot Chang Experiences

[fatpauljackson]

Hi all - I'm now in a professional position to spend 3 months of the year in Hong Kong. I was looking to get some shirts made and wanted to get some latest opinions on Ascot Chang. I did a search and while there was decent info, not sure how current it was.

How have people's recent HK commissions gone? As I understand it, the original Pennisula hotel location is gone and there's just the Kowloon one and the Landmark one. Which location might have the better measurers / fitters? Which has the better cutters? I've been told the cutter isn't doing the fitting. @dieworkwear I saw in an old thread you mentioned Nelson Chin is who you want fitting you... do you know if he is doing this in HK as well and not just the overseas trunk shows? Is Ascot Chang able to accommdate sloped shoulders and forward shoulders well?

Also any quality comparisons between Ascot Chang and those I've used in London would be great (Turnbull and Asser, Stephen Lachter, Hidalgo Brothers). Or traveling Italian tailors (D'Avino, Luca Avitabile) to London.

Thanks in advance!

 

[breakaway01]

dieworkwear no longer posts on StyleForum.
Check out the dedicated thread on HK tailors here: https://www.styleforum.net/threads/the-hong-kong-tailors-thread.33568

 

[fatpauljackson]

Great, please feel free to delete this thread.

 

[ny2918]

dieworkwear no longer posts on StyleForum.
Check out the dedicated thread on HK tailors here: https://www.styleforum.net/threads/the-hong-kong-tailors-thread.33568

Huh...just curious, why did @dieworkweaer stop posting on styleforum? where is he posting now?

 

[fatpauljackson]

Since you bumped this thread anyway, for anyone that cares I had a really good experience with Ascot Chang. Measured in London with Nelson, shirts were ready for me when I got to Hong Kong. Went through two fittings / adjustments to account for my shoulder slope, end result is great. With your pattern on file, new shirts can be made in as little as a few weeks.

I cannot imagine that I will ever get any London / European shirts made again (have tried Turnbull and Asser, Stephen Lachter, Hidalgo Brothers). They were perfectly fine, but the price is absolutely prohibitive relative to Ascot in Hong Kong for worse quatliy fabrics and the turnaround time is also vastly slower.

Highly recommend AC.

 

[Concordia]

AC has been a reliable source, one of a few that I rotate around. But a recent quote they gave was no different than what I would expect from a good London shop.

It could be that they and their customers are being raped by fabric middlemen and taxes. CMT has often been a really good deal, and I have sent things from Bonfanti with good results, artistic and financial.

But be careful when you move up the fabric food chain.

 

[fatpauljackson]

AC has been a reliable source, one of a few that I rotate around. But a recent quote they gave was no different than what I would expect from a good London shop.

It could be that they and their customers are being raped by fabric middlemen and taxes. CMT has often been a really good deal, and I have sent things from Bonfanti with good results, artistic and financial.

But be careful when you move up the fabric food chain.

Oh interesting, what was the AC quote you got and for what fabric? London prices I have experienced are 400 to 450 GBP for starting basic fabrics, while AC was about 375 USD for a notch or two above their basic house fabrics. Huge difference with the exchange rate.

 

[Concordia]

These were formal shirts with jacquard instead of marcella bibs/cuffs. The body they first quoted was a linen/cotton poplin by DJ Anderson, which I have used many times before. This time, the quote was 6,700 HKD, or 690 quid/870 U$D. So I dialed it back to Alumo 100 and 120 cotton.

 

[fatpauljackson]

These were formal shirts with jacquard instead of marcella bibs/cuffs. The body they first quoted was a linen/cotton poplin by DJ Anderson, which I have used many times before. This time, the quote was 6,700 HKD, or 690 quid/870 U$D. So I dialed it back to Alumo 100 and 120 cotton.

Ah, got you now. That make sense. The fabric I got from them was Alumo 120.

 

[Concordia]

Not sure if they are socked by extravagant import costs, or if this is their own pricing strategy to milk the most out of their wealthiest customers. But CMT has usually been a good deal with them.