Lol!

I wish we lived closer to a real city, we'd have more choices of shops.
Its for the son. He has tons of dress shirts, slacks and ties but no suit. I want his first to be fitted not off the rack.

I'll check Macy's too.

 

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Time to move out of the sticks.

 

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Every small town has a master tailor in it. Stay away from Dept and Chain stores. Goto a little mom and pop place. Stay away from bridal stores and rent a tux places too.

You might pay a little above the dept store prices, but you will get WAAAAY better quality and the suit will fit him perfectly.

 

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My husband had a shop in Los Angeles he bought everything at for years. I'd love to find one like that.

There will be no master taylor out here. Maybe one of his friends know, or one of the nerds at work know good places closer than Sacramento.

 

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What the........F***?

 

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I got one suit there, only because it was on sale.

Otherwise, I'd buy elsewhere.

 

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I'm curious what people consider "price raping" in terms of alterations.

A lot of people balk when you tell them it'll cost $10+ for a simple pants hemming- that's pants with no lining and no cuffs. They think "all you have to do is cut and sew!" but it's so much more than that. Not only do you have to take the time to measure for the alteration itself (best done when the garment is on the person), and then make sure it's done just right (trust me, you don't just want to zip through it quickly and find out later you ruined the item), and then take the time again for the customer to try the item on after it's been altered, to be sure it looks right. There's always the possibility that it'll need to be re-done, all under the same $10 price umbrella. And that's only for a very simple hem. You start talking about things that take more time (especially garments that are lined, such as suit jackets and the like) and yeah it's gonna cost you more.

Now, if part of the price of the suit included free alterations, yeah they definitely shouldn't be charging for that.

I also second the whole "take it to a master tailor". You want a real tailored suit, one that fits you like a dream, that's where you want to go.

 

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Men's Wearhouse (and Jos. A. Bank) are both about the same deal. Until or unless you can afford to start paying upwards of $2k for a suit, MW and JAB will both give you just as good a suit as anywhere else in the "inexpensive" suit category.

Master tailors are kind of hit or miss. I lived in a town where the tailor was not so hot and where the tailor that worked at Men's Wearhouse 5 miles away knew the guy with the little shop because he got a whole bunch of cleanup work from that guy's screwups...

 

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Indeed- just because a tailor is a "mom and pop" person with a small shop doesn't mean they're going to be good. I'd never bring in an expensive item for tailoring to someone who had never done work for me before.

Conversely, not all department store tailors are horrid either. Some of them are very good at what they do.

 

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the only time I wear a suit is at interviews so a MW suit would be fine for me.