Custom shirts - does this look legit?

[Goblin]

I don't know the first thing about custom tailoring. The city in which I live only has one tailor who makes shirts:

http://bestmastertailor.com/index.html

I can't really tell from the website if the prices are about right for the services he offers, and I honestly don't think I know enough about tailoring to tell if the clothes are worth it. I've never heard any kind of testimonials about him one way or the other, but I hardly run in circles where custom clothing is de rigeur.

I would greatly appreciate it if one or more people knowledgeable about such things could poke around his website and see if it at least passes the "smell" test. I'm thinking of having a shirt made as a trial, but I don't want to flush $100 down the toilet. I know $1095 for a bespoke suit seems very low, even in our economically-depressed state.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Isaac Mickle]

Looks legit to me. Will he make only one shirt? I would be surprised if there was not a rather large minimum order from someone who claims to cut a pattern for each new client.

Also, I would not go the non-iron route for the first shirt. Do a Royal Oxford or better. Do something closer to the best fabric you imagine you might be ordering in a large batch. That way your pattern can be tweaked usefully. If some crap fabric shirt does not shrink into place for you, then you do not know how to tweak the pattern for your set of five royal oxfords.

Plus why go this route and skimp on the fabric?

Your satisfaction with made-to-measure shirts will depend on the extent to which off-the-rack shirts fit you well. If you have never had a shirt that fits properly, I'd say the odds are you will be very happy with the end result.

 

[Goblin]

I just walked down and spoke to the tailor, and he seems a nice enough guy. I ended up ordering four shirts, none "non-iron" - didn't seem like the way to go once I thought about it on the walk over. The turnaround time is about 3.5 weeks. I ordered 3 straight collar barrel cuffs for work - white, a lilac check, and a pink with stripes - and a white linen sport shirt with french cuffs. Total was $558, with $400 down, which seems eminently reasonable.

If there were off the rack shirts I could wear, I would, but any OTR shirts that fit my shoulders are generally pretty mushroomy around my waist, even the "tailored fits." If these shirts are nice, I will take this guy a ridiculous amount of business.

 

[Isaac Mickle]

Congratulations on the purchase! Well done Goblin. Here's hoping your tailor comes through for you.

 

[TrueCustomTailorAtl]

You should have your tailor make only 1 shirt for a try-on. Hold the balance till the first shirt is perfect. This is the way i do business