Fabric For Shirts & Pants

[phelan77]

Hi All,

I will be travelling to Bangkok next month for a few days and intend to tailor some shirts and pants from either Milan Tailor or Narin Couture.

Reading up on various threads, i realise that good quality fabrics are a rarity in Bangkok. Armed with this knowledge, i will be bringing my own fabric to Bangkok.

Can anybody advice me how many yards of fabric i would need to tailor a long sleeve cuff shirt and pants?

Thanks

 

[Fishball]

Originally Posted by phelan77

Hi All,

I will be travelling to Bangkok next month for a few days and intend to tailor some shirts and pants from either Milan Tailor or Narin Couture.

Reading up on various threads, i realise that good quality fabrics are a rarity in Bangkok. Armed with this knowledge, i will be bringing my own fabric to Bangkok.

Can anybody advice me how many yards of fabric i would need to tailor a long sleeve cuff shirt and pants?

Thanks

We have to know how tall and fat you are, to give you advice.

For me 1.8yds of 60" shirting is enough.
1.5yds for pants with 2"cuff. I'm 1.7m. with medium built.

 

[phelan77]

Originally Posted by Fishball

We have to know how tall and fat you are, to give you advice.

For me 1.8yds of 60" shirting is enough.
1.5yds for pants with 2"cuff. I'm 1.7m. with medium built.

Thanks for your reply. I'm 1.74m medium built. My shirt size is 15.5.

 

[zeusbheld]

Originally Posted by phelan77

...I will be travelling to Bangkok next month for a few days and intend to tailor some shirts and pants from either Milan Tailor or Narin Couture.

just wondering if you had some shirts and pants made there, and what your impressions are.

i live in Bangers, so i want to read as many people's impressions of BKK tailors before i pick one to try to work with. i know many people on this forum will advise flying to HK instead, but i'm interested in finding a more convenient tailor i can work with longer-term (have as many fittings as i want, do about a shirt a month, one i can browbeat into indulging peculiar requests, etc).

once i've chosen i will probably post pics (and mercifully spare you my ugly mug) both so people here can see where the tailor got it wrong, and advise me on where *i* get it wrong...

first-ever post, btw, so hoping the nag at the top of every thread will go away now.

 

[zeusbheld]

i haven't had any shirts made here in Bangkok yet, but i will probably start the process next week. i've decided to give Milan Suit a try; it's gotten fairly good writeups all over the net, has no touts, doesn''t look posh or pretentious, and is right across the street from a pizza place that is allegedly good (which i haven't tried yet). when i visit there i'll probably start a thread and describe the process in detail, as there doesn't seem to be much being posted about tailoring in Bangers lately.