Australian Members - Part II - if you read the first post, you'll get what this is all about.

[sensuki]

Can anyone recommend a good dry cleaner in Melbourne conservative business dress? Got some oil stains on my new TFC Trousers on the second wear

Dabbed with a baby wipe when I got home, but still visible somewhat

 

[mercury]

Interesting price... Can anyone speak to quality or experience with Zingchen?

I find that the Zing Chen silhouette is much more refined than any of my other suits.

It's not something that was immediately obvious to my eye, but the more I wear it, the less I like my other suits.

Granted I've only tried their bespoke offering, but if you can fit in RTW suits, I'd say this is definitely worth looking into, especially at that promo price. I'm sure TFC will have sample sizes at the MTO event that you can check out.

 

[The Chai]

Embrace the stains as ‘sprezz’

Can anyone recommend a good dry cleaner in Melbourne conservative business dress? Got some oil stains on my new TFC Trousers on the second wear

Dabbed with a baby wipe when I got home, but still visible somewhat

 

[Contango]

Embrace the stains as ‘sprezz’

Or “patina”.

 

[The Chai]

Or “patina”.

Ditto...that’s how I explain the makeup stains on my suit shoulders ;-)

 

[npvpositive]

Interesting price... Can anyone speak to quality or experience with Zingchen?

Very impressed with my first bespoke order from Zing Chen. Despite the lower price point, I think the handwork and attention to detail is comparable to B&Tailor

 

[sebastian mcfox]

B&Tailor is very overpriced these days

 

[sliq]

i'm not a fan of the house style of Zing Chen. boxy, very low lapel gorge, big arm holes and baggy sleeves...

 

[boot_owl]

i'm not a fan of the house style of Zing Chen. boxy, very low lapel gorge, big arm holes and baggy sleeves...

I’ve seen one or two pieces in person and the boxiness is not apparent - must be the way they photograph

 

[sebastian mcfox]

i'm not a fan of the house style of Zing Chen. boxy, very low lapel gorge, big arm holes and baggy sleeves...

I like it, it’s got a relaxed, vintage vibe to it. Certainly more pleasing than the litany of tight, short, anemic-lapelled suits in most Aussie stores

 

[Epicure]

I like it, it’s got a relaxed, vintage vibe to it. Certainly more pleasing that the litany of tight, short, anemic-lapelled suits in most Aussie stores

I'm so tired of seeing suits that fit almost as closely as active wear. This trend should be long dead, but like zombies, the figures in these suits continue to persist like an undead horror.

 

[__PG__]

I've never used Katrina's but I know many here who have and a few women who originally put me on to them. The "original" Katrina's was Kim & her husband, forget his name, up off Bourke St in a lane just around from American Tailors. They sold it at one stage. But reports were still ok. Its now (well the name) shifted to Flinders Lane between Elizabeth & Queen. Its also called/associated with Berenson Tailors which offers MTM suits etc. I don't know the full story but I can get the good oil tomorrow from one of the women. I have used Sam @docklands. Sam is a proper tailor, possibly the youngest proper tailor in Melbourne. He knows his tailoring - men's & women's . He's not the cheapest but he does do hemming only for $15 I think. (Footscray, Dandenong, Springvale you can get good hemming for $12) Proper alterations at Sam's cost proper money. I'm not sure I'd take style advice from him. So its the same as ever, how to get what you want from a tailor without micro managing and pissing off the craftsman. Knowing when to listen to advice and when to push or pull back a bit.

Hello again fxh. Just checking that Sam @docklands is now http://samsalterations.com.au/ ; 550 Lonsdale st?

 

[Journeyman]

I'm so tired of seeing suits that fit almost as closely as active wear. This trend should be long dead, but like zombies, the figures in these suits continue to persist like an undead horror.

It's interesting. Less than a decade ago, I was often told that I should size up when shopping for a suit so as to give me "room to move" (as though I needed the ability to swing a pickaxe while wearing a suit), and I was also told that my sleeves should come down to the base of my thumb (yes, as horrifying as it sounds, I was told that more than once).

It seems that not that long afterwards, trends changed considerably and suddenly men were wearing bum-freezer jackets with narrow lapels (sometimes with multiple lapel buttonholes) and skinny trousers that stopped well above the ankle bone.

Hopefully, we will reach a happy medium at some stage.

 

[deadbilly]

Hello again fxh. Just checking that Sam @docklands is now http://samsalterations.com.au/ ; 550 Lonsdale st?

Nope, different fellow. Up thread (or in the old Oz thread) is the Sam address, I don't have it to hand, down an alley not far from Sam's Alterations (within a block or 2).

 

[am55]

It's interesting. Less than a decade ago, I was often told that I should size up when shopping for a suit so as to give me "room to move" (as though I needed the ability to swing a pickaxe while wearing a suit), and I was also told that my sleeves should come down to the base of my thumb (yes, as horrifying as it sounds, I was told that more than once).

It seems that not that long afterwards, trends changed considerably and suddenly men were wearing bum-freezer jackets with narrow lapels (sometimes with multiple lapel buttonholes) and skinny trousers that stopped well above the ankle bone.

Hopefully, we will reach a happy medium at some stage.

Here is a nice illustration of the principle of a conservative core around which the fashionable swing like a pendulum, a still from 1949's Mission in Tangiers:



The chap on the right wouldn't be out of place in a 90s Wall Street/law firm movie.

But we evolve. Even Prince Philip's tailor has admitted to thinning his trouser legs as the decades passed.