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a dank. very nice. do you do RTW much anymore besides sweaters?
More and more. I'm getting a bit tired of mtm/bespoke. I know that may sound strange (or blasé)
on this forum and considering how much I've enjoyed choosing fabrics, buttons, details etcetera
in the past. And I'm happy with the MTM suits and bespoke shirts that I currently have (I don't have
bespoke suits or jackets). But I think I can get a decent fit OTR, and decent is good enough for me.
Getting the right fit on clothes is a PITA; I don't enjoy that process of tweaking and tweaking to get a
perfect (or really good) fit at all.
But ask me again in a couple of years.
The tab-under Rumsfeld collar is impossible to pull off. It's truly a collar that needs to be buried. It creates a problem that didn't exist (the problem of not having your tie knot pinned up in the air like a #menswear advertisement) and then fixes the non-problem in the most un-aesthetically pleasing way possible. Like the 80s padded shoulder this collar needs to be added to the dust bin and then never retrieved.
More and more. I'm getting a bit tired of mtm/bespoke. I know that may sound strange (or blasé)
on this forum and considering how much I've enjoyed choosing fabrics, buttons, details etcetera
in the past. And I'm happy with the MTM suits and bespoke shirts that I currently have (I don't have
bespoke suits or jackets). But I think I can get a decent fit OTR, and decent is good enough for me.
Getting the right fit on clothes is a PITA; I don't enjoy that process of tweaking and tweaking to get a
perfect (or really good) fit at all.
But ask me again in a couple of years.
MTM is such a pain to get right that I'm not sure it has any advantages over RTW in terms of fit, unless you have a weird physique. You'll probably end up with a lot of ill fitting suits in the process (which of course you have to pay), while with RTW you can just try things on and put them back on the rack if you don't like how they look. As long as shoulders don't look messy (even if they are a bit too wide, which seems frowned upon here), there aren't tons of extra fabric and balance isn't off, it's OK IMO. Those things usually go really, really bad on first MTM efforts. Of course you could find a MTM maker with a cut that works on you from the start, then you have the advantage of choosing styling, fabric, etc. Bespoke is a different animal, as there's more fittings involved and it has less chances to go wrong (though it's still very possible).More and more. I'm getting a bit tired of mtm/bespoke. I know that may sound strange (or blasé)
on this forum and considering how much I've enjoyed choosing fabrics, buttons, details etcetera
in the past. And I'm happy with the MTM suits and bespoke shirts that I currently have (I don't have
bespoke suits or jackets). But I think I can get a decent fit OTR, and decent is good enough for me.
Getting the right fit on clothes is a PITA; I don't enjoy that process of tweaking and tweaking to get a
perfect (or really good) fit at all.
But ask me again in a couple of years.