Tailor lost RLBL suit pants - SOLVED?

[Larson McCord]

There was an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry lost a Yankees jersey or something at the cleaners and he was told it was the luck of the cleaners. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. He had never gotten anything and was not happy.

Someone is probably wearing those charcoal RLBL pants right now.

 

[TimelesStyle]

I'd check out the tailor's work and see if his suits are up to snuff. If he's really a quality bespoke tailor, then that's not a bad deal depending on how much under retail you got your suit for.

Regarding the RL MTM event, be careful: I've seen suits in RL that have subtly different fabrics but the same SKU numbers since they were the staple suits but from different seasons. It's also reasonable to think that for their basic charcoal they buy more than one lot of fabric, possibly from more than one source. So even if it's technically the same suit, it may be a bit off.

I think your options are limited to accepting the tailor's offer of a custom suit or having the tailor purchase you a new RLBL suit. I wouldn't monkey around with the others.

 

[Jaggs]

Came up to Charlotte to the Ralph Lauren store as they are having the MTM event and went over my issue with the General Manager. Fortunatley, I still have all the tags/codes/numbers on the jacket and left that with them so she had what she needed to get where we needed to be and I requested the just make me an exact replica of the existing Anthony pants. For all I know they will just pull a 40L drop 7 pair and send them off or make one extra pair...

She just called back after talking to her contact with MTM in corporate and they confirmed with Italy that we are a go for the dye match and fabric. Bill will be going to the tailor for $520. I could have just requested a replacement suit, but I wanted to do what I could to minimzie the burden on everone involved, so I'm satisifed...pending delivery!

 

[mlongano]

Wishing you the best of luck, but keep in mind that it "ain't over yet".

 

[Beatlegeuse]

Good update, sounds like your situation is finally going to be resolved! Hopefully everything will go smoothly here on out with this.

 

[NORE]

OP, check eBay for a pair of orphaned pants. Just search "Ralph Lauren" go to pants and have a look. I've found (not that I needed them) spare pants to many of my RL suits NWT.