Off The Cuff Made To Measure Suits In Leeds

Made To Measure Suits In Leeds

What are you actually getting ? Are you getting a REAL tailor-made suit ? Or are you getting something else that is sub-standard ? Unfortunately it may be the latter.

A suit from a ‘tailors’ in York sold as bespoke.

Back of the coat.

I have been in the tailoring trade, wholesale and bespoke for all of my working adult career, that’s 31 years up to now.

But I actually have a very clear recollection of the trade as a boy aged about 6 years with my father. So the first thing I will say is that I have heritage, and lots of it.

The other aspect is that over those years I have been a trade coat maker, and sometimes trouser maker, for LOTS and I mean LOTS of tailors up and down the UK that outsource their work.

( I am not going to start spilling the beans and naming names, but lets just say some good and some bad along with some very well established names ) so I know who is actually cutting, making or farming it out.

Sure there are some tailoring places that are in Yorkshire that have some kind of a workroom, and very convincing it may appear to be to the un-trained eye, BUT take a closer look, ask the right questions and you will find out all is not as it seems.

Suits on a production line. This is not how handcrafted bespoke or real made to measure suits are made !

“Hello !” “Hello !” ” Wake up and smell the coffee !” Tailored suits are not made in a factory ! They are made by a …… TAILOR !

Badly done machine buttonholes. The shop has then just slit them through to make ‘real’ holes, they haven’t even trimmed the eye !!!!

I have seen better apprentice pieces, horribly made trousers !

You would be better off going to Marks and Sparks.

obviously didn’t have their glasses on when they stitched this front !

Some of these ‘tailor made’ suits have been as close to a tailors hands as I have to Scarlett Johansson.

Before you part with any money take a GOOD look at the pictures in this article and ask yourself, would any self-respecting time served tailor actually turn out work of this standard and put his name to work like this ? Of course he wouldn’t, because it’s a mediocre factory made suit sold as ‘bespoke’

What about this for a finish on the inside of the trouser back waistband. I think the pen mark is a nice touch !

So even if you don’t use me for your made to measure suit in Leeds just spend a little time and DO YOUR RESEARCH and use a real tailor. I am just a dedicated passionate tailor trying to preserve my craft. Don’t fall prey to the pretend tailors, there are a lot out there my friend. desmerrion.com