my visit to Napoli & Mina @ Napoli Su Misura

[unbelragazzo]

Wore my NsM shawl DB last night for NYE festivities. This jacket is tough to photograph well, but hopefully you get the idea.

Happy New Year all!

 

[forex]

Looks nice! This thread pretty much died, I remember the days when NsM was a new kid around the block and everybody talked about them. Are people still commissioning from them or is Vox single handedly placing all orders with them now?

 

[WillingToLearn]

I have received 1 shirt, 6 SCs and 2 suits in the last 18 months, with 1 suit, 1 blazers suit and 1 SC in process. Mina is as busy as ever and still doing great work

 

[bry2000]

Does she still come to NY? If so, how often? One of the issues many faced was lack of consistency in fit.

 

[Concordia]

I had trouble with jackets-- which I now get elsewhere. Trousers are much better, and shirts have been quite reliable.

My only real complaint with their service is their willingness to respond to-- or read fully-- e-mails. That, and their decision that Boston wasn't working out for them.

 

[forex]



I had trouble with jackets-- which I now get elsewhere. Trousers are much better, and shirts have been quite reliable.

My only real complaint with their service is their willingness to respond to-- or read fully-- e-mails. That, and their decision that Boston wasn't working out for them.

Did Vox stop placing orders?

On a serious note, where are you getting your jackets made now? Not the English tailors but Italians who make lighter and warmer weather appropriate garments?

 

[Concordia]



Did Vox stop placing orders?

On a serious note, where are you getting your jackets made now? Not the English tailors but Italians who make lighter and warmer weather appropriate garments?

London, mostly. And occasionally, WWChan -- when convenient.

 

[bry2000]

I never ordered trousers from NSM. I like the shirts that I received. My first two jackets came out well and then things did not work out for whatever reason. And that is a shame since I really like Mina and I think she has a great eye for style, detail and color.

 

[venividivicibj]

So people aren't having issues with the jackets themselves as much as the customer service/frequency of visits?

 

[forex]

I had two sport coats and one suit made by them, the issue I have with them is that they tend to make their clothing too slim fitting. To a point I wasn't comfortable in their jackets, I had to actually bring them to a different tailor and let them out in the back to make them wearable. They fit fine now but I would be hesitant to have them make anything else although I think about it every now and then.
I think there are plenty people who have had issues with their jackets too.

 

[unbelragazzo]



Does she still come to NY? If so, how often? One of the issues many faced was lack of consistency in fit.

Yes NY is the place Mina visits most. She's there for a few days every 3-4 months or so.

 

[firenze_rob]

I've had two summer jackets made each year for the past two years. Fit has been fine, but I don't think I have a particularly tough frame to fit.

My first jacket fit fine that I didn't want to have to start the process all over again and prices haven't gone up like around my other battery of tailors.

 

[lordsuperb]



I've had two summer jackets made each year for the past two years. Fit has been fine, but I don't think I have a particularly tough frame to fit.

My first jacket fit fine that I didn't want to have to start the process all over again and prices haven't gone up like around my other battery of tailors.

Why do tailors keep raising prices each year?

 

[Griffindork]



Looks nice! This thread pretty much died, I remember the days when NsM was a new kid around the block and everybody talked about them. Are people still commissioning from them or is Vox single handedly placing all orders with them now?

In some ways, NSM is a great jumping-off point for bespoke. The prices are reasonable (on a relative basis of course - less than high-end off the rack), you get a sense of what it means to pick fabrics and go through fittings, and there is a stylistic viewpoint to the clothes. In other respects, it's not so great. The quality of the workmanship is not very good, particularly for jackets, and the garments have a high variance for a given bespeaker so that you can't really "lock in" your fit and get what you expect.

I suspect that the lack of action on this thread is because people order, receive their garments and suddenly realize that those Medtech Expat garments looked great and theirs don't. And so they move on. If I had to guess, I'd say that on a small scale they did really great, but that as orders increased quality went in the other direction.

 

[coolpapa]



The quality of the workmanship is not very good, particularly for jackets, and the garments have a high variance for a given bespeaker so that you can't really "lock in" your fit and get what you expect.

This is why I quit using them.