Indochino suits? - Page 126

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if that's right out of the box, i'm thoroughly impressed... looks close to a perfect fit, imo

Yes, right out of the box. No alterations, not dry cleaned.

I got lucky I suppose. I'll likely try again to see if it was a fluke.

Nice, but it should be red with white sleeves.

Haha yeah, I've been meaning to get a nice red tie so that I can emulate Wenger

I'm interested in the Ultimate Grey Suit, but I'm not sure about the fabric. On the product page for the suit it says 'lightweight wool blend'. However, if you look at the Tailor's Kit (swatch book) section of the website and choose a swatch from the Ultimate Grey Suit it shows "100% Wool, Thread Count 176". So what's the deal? Indochino should know and control exactly what fabric gets used for each product. It's actually $20 more expensive than the Essential Charcoal Suit which (in both places) says "100% Wool Thread Count 200" (though last year there were reports that it was actually a blend that some people got, anomaly, suspect batch?). I don't particularly want a wool/polyester blend for $369. What do you Ult. Grey owners think of the fabric?

It's fine. It's what you would expect at this price point. I have an OTR suit that cost me around $600 and the fabric feels very similar. There's nothing that would lead me to believe it's a poly blend.

Do you still have the coupon?

Finally got a chance to wear my gray sport coat I got from Indochino with a Groupon a couple months ago as an experiment to see what kind of product they produced. I wasn't thrilled with it and had planned on never wearing and chalking it up to experience. But after wearing it for the first time this weekend, it's not too bad, although if I plan on wearing it again I'll have to shorten the sleeves a hair.

Your shoulder muscles and/or the suit make you look like a linebacker. The suit shoulder is way too big for you. You also need higher cut armholes or slimmer sleeves to balance it out.

My shoulders actually go out to the edges of the jacket. I even did the old "lean against a wall and see if your shoulders or the jacket touch first" test. I'm an athlete and have a very full back and shoulders, which is why I wanted to try out a MTM jacket. This jacket actually has no padding in the shoulders, which is why you can see my traps sticking up so noticeably.

Yeah, the sleeves and armholes are what bothered me the most about it. Mainly because I asked for a slim fit and higher cut armholes, and this is what I ended up with. I've thought about trying to have the sleeves narrowed a bit, but I'm not sure how it would end up looking without being able to raise the armholes like I'd want to, but can't.

^ You probably would have been better off not selecting the natural shoulder option, I think having the shoulder pad there would make your traps look less pronounced. I made the mistake of ordering natural shoulders on my first suit, and when I ended up having my tailor put a slim shoulder pad in there it ended up looking much better. Then on my next suit, I didn't select the natural shoulder option at all and it turned out pretty well. I'll post pics of my 2nd suit (timeless charcoal 3-piece) as soon as I get a chance to take some. I think it turned out just as good as my 1st suit (associate 3-piece posted a couple pages back in this thread).

I finally got my Associate Suit Yesterday; overall, the fit seems to be not bad. My observations:

1. The sleeves are too long by about 1- 1.5". I'm not sure how easy/difficult to fix this would be as the buttonholes are functional.

2. The bunching that Glostix and beatlegeuse had going on in the armpit area is also present with this suit. I'm not a tailor; but my best guess as to why this is happening is that the armpit of the suit is not inline with my anatomical armpit, causing it to be squeezed inward when I stand with my arms at my side. This may mean that the chest/shoulders need to be brought in a little; but I'm a little worried that doing so without adjusting the jacket hips would make me look too big at the hips.

3. There's bunching occuring at the sleeves on the side.

4. I never realized how much lower my right shoulder is compared to my left.

5. People will probably say the jacket length is too short; but I'm actually ok with it due to my short legs. I probably wouldn't want it much longer than what it is now.

6. I have no idea if the vest length is ok or not.









I'll bring the suit to my tailor and see what he thinks; but any other comments would also be appreciated.

Here's the "Spring Awakening" shirt I just received. After getting a couple remakes on the previous shirt order I had done (the first ones fit "perfect" (for a very euro slim-fit look, they made them properly) but were too slimfit/tight for my taste so I tweaked measurements to get them just right and they nailed it on the 2nd remake - 1st remake they took too much liberty and increased the armhole more than I asked)....I was wary as to if they would be consistent with this new shirt order. They nailed it and it fits almost exactly as expected. Fits perfectly. It's fairly slim fitting but with enough room at the armhole for comfort. Great colour on this shirt that didn't come through on the website. IOW, it looks way better in person than online. No QA issues with the construction , maybe the collar is a hair (0.25") big), but I wouldn't mind if they decided to use slightly higher quality buttons. My very first shirts had thicker/nicer buttons, but the remakes of those and this new shirt all had thinner buttons. No biggie though. I know it would go well with the Essential Charcoal suit, but wondering how it would do with a grey suit. Thoughts? (note: the little bags contain the "Bars of Silver links and a "Good Groove" tie bar...unfortunately, these looked better online than in person,,I thought they were more of a matte/brushed finish, but they are actually more shiny/chromish...so more blingy than I like).

Is Indochino worth a try? Those pics (apart from LorenzL camel suit, which is marvelous) did not impress me at all. However, here, in Moscow, there are quite a few wearable suits that can be bought under $400 (well, all right - probably only Massimo Dutti . The rest is pure crap)