my visit to Napoli & Mina @ Napoli Su Misura - Page 162

Originally Posted by Lovelace 

I know, but he is asking for opinions on here. The best, most level headed opinion would come from a tailor, who actually knows what he is talking about. One such sartorial god posts on here I beleive.
I learned this when I had my first suit made.

Originally Posted by unbelragazzo 

The best opinion would be from the person that actually made the suit and can look at it in person. If OP is asking for an opinion on whether the suit looks good or not then fine - he's got that. Numerous posters have confirmed his suspicion that the suit needs work.

But as far as what needs to be done to it, it is best diagnosed and remedied by the person who made it. If they can't or won't fix it, then at that point you can talk about what to do about it.

Originally Posted by Cantabrigian 

Grab a few ties as you storm out.

Alpha. Move.

Originally Posted by coolpapa 

Or at least demand a bunch of free stuff. It's the SF way.

Originally Posted by Cantabrigian 

Demanding is too genteel. If you want to be a bawss, you've got to pillage.


All this talk of trusting a tailor is nonsense. Here's what you do--

As soon as you put the jacket on, before she starts the fitting, start ripping seams apart yourself. That (one) show's who's in charge and (two) allow you to more easily repin things (yourself, obviously) to how someone on the internet said they should be.

I really don't think you can go wrong with that approach. I'm 97% sure that's how the Duke of Windsor did it.

Originally Posted by unbelragazzo 

Among the tailors who disliked customer direction, none was more notorious than The Duke's own tailor Frederick Scholte.

Originally Posted by unbelragazzo 

Among the tailors who disliked customer direction, none was more notorious than The Duke's own tailor Frederick Scholte.

Originally Posted by Lovelace 

No tailor likes to be directed, its an insult in a way.

Originally Posted by whnay. 

Looks like shit dude, I'd ask for a remake or a refund.

Originally Posted by teddieriley 

You fools have all been trolled. haha.

Originally Posted by Ich_Dien 


Another SF darling ousted.

Originally Posted by unbelragazzo 

Despos is a tailor...but, talented as he is, he is limited by looking at a handful of still photos as opposed to seeing the suit in person, and also by the fact that it's a suit built by someone else.

Again, by far the best solution is to go to Mina herself. Explain what you don't like, and let her try to fix it.

If there's one thing I've heard tailors (I'm not talking about Mina in particular, this is near universal) complain about more than ANYTHING in customer interactions, it's customers trying to tell them how to do their jobs. I don't mean in the sense of responding to customer requests for a wider lapel or more shaping in the chest or things like that. I mean customers who come in with a list of alterations that they got from somebody on the internet - even if this someone is actually a tailor, but then usually it's not - and are now relaying to their tailor as, "OK, I need this taken in by 1 cm, then this part needs to be stitched in such and such a way, etc., etc.."

They take pride in their work and want to make you happy. If you tell them, "this part looks messy/feels to tight/looks this way when I wanted it another way," they will do their best to accommodate you, within reason. But they, like other people who take pride in their work, will resent being micromanaged, especially in a way that implies that they don't know what they're doing.