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Local 6 could always use strong backs ??
Looking forward to the big reveal.
trying to limit how much extra cloth I have- already have 6-7 just lying around.
Indeed if you want good/great bespoke seek out an old Italian tailor living in the South of Italy.My Tailor seems to do good work. I don't know their prices, but if they're within your budget, it would be hard to do better at that price point, I think.
The only other ~$2k bespoke tailoring I've seen that I thought was impressive was the stuff @UrbanComposition got in Sicily. You can read about it here
East Sicily Tailors
Of course I knew there must be tailors in Sicily, but once I saw Sleevehead's book I knew I had to make it a part of my next trip. We landed in Palermo and spent a couple nights with an old lady that knew hardly anything about her city but cooked amazing food: caponata, swordfish, etc. I guess...www.styleforum.net
One of those Sicilian tailors is now visiting San Francisco. Prices are done in the usual Italian way -- there's the charge for labor, and then the cost of the fabric (whereas with British tailors, cost of fabric is included). For a cotton suit, I recently paid ~$2k, although I haven't received it yet. If you can make it to San Francisco, that could be another option, although prices are going up in 2021, I hear.
The first suit he made for me is fine and all the trousers he's made are similarly fine. But the Escorial jacket had balance issues that I still can't unsee even though it's vastly better than it was. But the most recent jacket, a DB in a Holland and Sherry flannel, is frustrating. At first it was finished just basically too big, which was odd because it looked fine at the forward fitting. Then, after that was corrected, the back and especially the back of one sleeve is not at all satisfactory. So it needs to go back for more work. I'm sure it will be fine in the end, it's just taking longer than it should.
The first suit and most of the trousers were made while Steven was still visiting the Bay Area. But for the the two jackets I'm talking about I mostly went to him in London. I think to assert that "all traveling tailors get it wrong" is nonsense.
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