The Tailors' Thread: Fit Feedback and Alteration Suggestions - Page 162

Prepare yourself guys, this is an absolute trainwreck.  What can be done to salvage?  I know the shoulders are too large, this is partially my fault for asking the MTM people to give me a bit of "growing room".  They gave me way too much lol.  Armholes are enormous.  I'm going to ask them to take out a a good amount of the shoulder padding, it's going to look weird but probably better than what it looks like currently.  There is also some bad collar gap that I don't know whether or not can be fixed....pretty disappointing.  Sleeves also are clearly too long/large.  Pants also came out huge/baggy lol 

Let me know what else I can fix....sorry for bad pics.  If possible I'm going to ask them to scrap the whole thing but that will require some spry bargaining...

My shoulders (yoke) will fill out/broaden in the coming months, as will my chest/back and arms but obviously not enough to fill out this jacket...

1 more fitting before I leave (in Shanghai).

Also, body measurements if they help: 5'9 155, 39" chest, 30" waist (midsection), ? on shoulders but probably somewhere from 17.5"-18" at the moment (narrow in relation to chest/back). Wide hip bones, probably close to 36" around.  Sloped/rounded shoulders.

Tailors, could you please comment on my shirt and sport coat?

I recently commissioned a local tailor to build the shirt. The SC is a J Crew.

Many thanks.

Ask your tailor to put another button on the cuff to reduce the circumference when wearing. The extra length could be better distributed if there were more than one sleeve pleat.

A little tight in the hips

Not sure that your jacket is too tight especially looking at this pic.  You may be a little full in the seat which will make that vent gape open. Ask your tailor if messing with the suppression is a good idea. I'm built very full in the seat. I usually wear double vented jackets to fix this and I suppress the waist mostly by taking in the front part of the jacket only. If it needs that much more, and it usually doesn't, i'll consider adding an underarm dart. 

There are some wrinkles at the upper back indicating it might be a little too sloped for your shoulders. Talk to you tailor to check on that because it's too hard to tell from your pics. If it needs to be squared up in the shoulders, that could help the vent stay closed. It may be sitting funny, too. Try pressing it.

Hi all, just got this new MTM suit. Please ignore the shirt, forgot to bring a better one.

I feel that the shoulders are a bit wide, and asked them to take it in by 0.5 inch on each side (the least they do...). I also feel that the armholes are somewhat anteriorly rotated, causing the appearance on the side. There's also quite a bit of bunching up on the back side of the arms.

Any suggestions for tailoring would be tremendously appreciated. Thanks!

Sleeve pitch issue.