San Francisco Alterations tailor - Page 3

Has anyone had experience with Designer's Tailoring?  They get good yelp reviews.  For me it's either them or Ricardo's as SFran is a bit far / inconvenient to get to.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/designers-tailoring-palo-alto#query:suit%20tailor

Does anyone else have additional images of the inner workings of slanted pant cuffs? My tailor and I are interested in figuring out this trick.

Thank you Despos and Gamblor for providing pictures to spark our curiosity.

We used to do these at army officer college. In fact we did them with a curve. The secret is to open the trouser seams, make a paper to accommodate the new curved cuffs, and then restitch.

Not easy, and it took a while to learn the secrets from the older officers because we never did find civilian tailors who knew how to do this.
 

Sorry, yes, I meant to say "Paper Pattern"

the trouble with curving a cuffed bottom is that the fabric needs to be wider at the top of the cuff than the width of the trouser, or else the seam crumples.

If you fold a piece of paper you will notice that you cannot achieve a curve unless you tuck in at the bottom and release at the top of the cuff. A fairly accurate paper pattern is required. None of us were tailors so we had to learn through trial and error until the previous intake of officers showed us a few tricks after graduating.

The strange thing is, after doing it once or twice it was not so difficult, but I think I would manage to do it again if I tried today.

Clever work with the slanting cuffs despos, I am going to try and figure this out over the next few days. I am not betting on myself but I can think of a few portly fellows this would have been handy for.

Brendon