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Has anyone commissioned anything frlm Sartorial Formosa at one of their trunk shows? Or any other traveling Italian/Neapolitan tailors who (in normal times) are doing NYC trunk shows?
Welp, just commissioned a sport coat by Frank Shattuck!
Some vintage military lambswool in taupe from Frank's own stock.
Thanks! This'll be the second ongoing project for me. Also another upcoming one from Anthology in the summer.I've commissioned and received jackets from Sartoria Tofani and Zizolfi in NYC.
I would seriously consider it, but I have two ongoing projects. Hope you enjoy it!
Did Corcos start taking customers again? I can never find any information regarding their trunkshowsI've only seen a handful of coats from Zizolfi -- a few in his workshop, one on the internet on Simon Crompton, and then a couple worn by one of Zizolfi's customers (seen in person). All of them have looked very nice.
If I was in NYC, I would try Zizolfi or Corcos.
Did Corcos start taking customers again? I can never find any information regarding their trunkshows
Maybe I'll ask Kenji Kaga-san when he comes to NYC again to show me through the backdoor of Corcos hehe. Interesting thing Kaga-san told me is that he considers Corcos to have the best quality and handwork in Italy.As far as I know, you email them and ask to be put on the waitlist. I asked to be put on the waitlist about four years ago and got an email about a year later saying they were taking new people from the waitlist. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make it to NYC for trunk shows, so I never commissioned anything. I don't know what the wait time is like now.
Neapolitans are why I take delivery (read: pay second half) in person. Because once they have your money, their willingness to fix problems mysteriously vanishes.I also had the same experience with Formosa about 6 years ago. I had a 3-piece suit made by him, and the results were very bad. The suit jacket didn’t fit at all and the trousers were very tight in the crotch area. When I pointed this out, he didn’t bother to offer to correct the mistakes. Needless to say, I never commissioned anything from him again afterwards.
I have commissioned and continue to commission garments from Neapolitan tailors, woth good results.
I’d like to try Corcos at some point. I like the work I’ve seen. For what it’s worth, I have a feeling Dalcuore will produce a good product. But I haven’t taken delivery yet (supposed to next trunk show in New York). It’s been a long time coming though. First started it in September 2018. (There were problems. But, they were willing to fix them.)Kotaro of Corcos is the most meticulous tailor I have worked with (Rubinacci, Steed, Formosa, NSM). I'm expecting my first completed commission later this week and I think it will have been a year and a half since I first met him. If I can give one piece of advice on bespoke, it's this: don't be in a hurry. Take the time to do as many fittings as needed to get it right. When you put on that bespoke suit for the first time, it's easy in the excitement of the moment to want to rush out and wear it yesterday.
Neapolitans are why I take delivery (read: pay second half) in person. Because once they have your money, their willingness to fix problems mysteriously vanishes.
is it standard protocol to pay half up front half on delivery? I’ve always assumed with bespoke it was all up front?
If I ever produced an advertisement for my business I would use a picture of a tailor working at his bench making a jacket. The picture next to it would be a factory mass producing suits and the owner talking with the production foreman saying, "how can we make more suits at a lower cost?"
Above the tailor would be a bubble saying "how can I make this one suit even better?