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"The DNA diet is like going to a tailor and getting your chest, your neck, your waist, your inseam all measured and deciding on which fabrics and colors compliment you."
"The secret to a great suit is all about the fit."
"The dressmaker is going to have quite a challenge. She's got to attract women into her shop."
"We can actually add new language features, and the bar for adding those is high."
"The entire point of making something of course it is so that it fits your body really perfectly."
"Properly fitted garments are ones that are proportional to your individual frame and thus flatter you well."
"It's better to get things tailor made to your body obviously."
"Tailoring makes everything look more custom, look more expensive, look more stylish."
"We are avoiding any kind of shaping that would create a lower back neckline, so we need to split for the two fronts."
"Tailoring is like the ticket, you have to get everything molded to your body."
"The idea behind pressing is to soften the fibers of the fabric with the help of heat and moisture, then to bring the fabric into the desired shape, and let it set."
"We're tailors at the end of the day. So if if somebody wants something and then we we still think it's got flavor and you know it's kind of individual she'll do it you know."
"I love this piece. I think it's a really nice way of doing tailoring but making it quite exciting and fun."
"Fit matters: tailoring can make all the difference."
"Your eye as bespoke tailor will ensure that it always looks great...but within that scope of aesthetically pleasing."
"In the bespoke tailoring, always give the client better than what they have."
"Every time I see someone in a suit on TV, I'm like, that's not tailored."
"If it's properly cut for braces, without the braces, they might slip to the hip or the seat."
"I think there is nothing that I love more than a good tailoring project."
"The beauty of bespoke tailoring is durability and longevity."
"We do a lot of trousers... making them tighter instead of plus twos or threes, shorter so they just sit on the shoe."
"Good tailoring has longevity, but there should be a degree of versatility too."
"A well-tailored blazer is definitely fail-proof."
"You can buy a suit second hand and just get a tailor to fix it up."
"Why you should always take your dresses to a seamstress."
"On to possibly the most important part of fitting, make a muslin. Okay, just do it. Just make the muslin. It's gonna make your life so much easier down the road."
"You can nip stuff in. Like, that was one of the tips I wrote about, like, get to know your tailor."
"When I'm tailoring I'm looking specifically for areas that are not bending, and so I usually will just mark those with some hash lines, and those the areas I'll work on first before I work evenly on the bow."
"If you have one pair of good pants that you love, take them to the tailor and then boom just like that you have a pair of pants that you can wear for years."
"One of the most important things I think about how to fit a suit is to fit your waist."
"You can't do that in made to measure, that's something you can only do in bespoke tailoring."
"...it's slightly a drop shoulder which usually calls for a shorter cap height one of the ways that I can see we can go about it is to measure 9 and 3/4 in on one curve make a mark and do exactly the same on the other one and make a mark as well."
"It's always worth it for me to go to the tailor and just get them right on that perfect cropped length."
"This is really your chance to sort of mold the jumper to be shaped the way you want it to be shaped."
"A good tailor is going to be well-trained in the art of making clothes."
"Blazers and jackets... I think it really shows its tailoring, it takes that better quality for it to really look much better."
"You look so put together and it looks so tailored because it fits so well."
"This is all about customizing and really tailoring the fit."
"I think the most beautiful part of bespoke tailoring is the relationship that you and I share."
"Do not do anything to the length of a dress until it's the end, until it's on your shoulders."
"A tailored coat will snatch up any look real quick."
"The relationship one has with their tailor is more than that, isn't it?"
"Great, and what about buttonholes on the sleeve? So you've got two on this one. Yeah, I do two. I usually do between two and three for my suits."
"How much longer until you think that um, you can get this back? Yeah, I mean, we'll send it off to the tailors, see you know what the workload is and and get it back but um, shouldn't be too long."
"For something to really be a true benchmade bespoke garment, it needs to be not only measured by the person making the pattern but the fittings need to be done by the pattern maker."
"It's also the time thing too right, so say I come I'm going to get 10 new suits but it's the first time I've ever come to you I don't know how it's going to fit like it's going to take time to dial in my pattern right?"
"There's a brand called Better with three T's. She is from Ukraine and she does tailoring very well."
"If you have an outfit that just fits you perfectly, it will have a look that it was tailored to your body without being tailored."
"Take the time and make the effort to get them hemmed to the appropriate length."
"A good tailor like a good tailor will make any thrift store item look like it was literally custom made for you."
"This does not go off Stitch count or anything like that, it is all based off your body measurements."
"The tailoring department was soon swamped with orders for pants."
"Get a tailor. Having a tailor in your corner will take your clothes from looking okay or maybe you kind of have to settle or make it work to items that look perfectly tailored for you."
"Tailoring your clothes so they fit you perfectly... will automatically make an outfit look so much more put together."
"You might have to hide a couple of smaller stitches because this length might not be perfect."
"Think about a suit, what is the most comfortable sort of suit? It's a suit that is tailored to you."
"Even if you think you're just going to wear it once, I still think you can find something very inexpensively and have it tailored."
"Fit is King, you need to know the name of your tailor, make sure everything you wear especially your jackets are adjusted to fit you as well as they can be."
"For your regular suit waistcoat, usually buttons up high. I like them quite high just opening enough to show your tie."
"His wardrobe must cost a lot, given her, getting everything, like, tailored. Oh, yeah, yeah. I feel like Alfred does a lot of his tailoring. No, I'm talking about Two-Face's. Oh, oh, yeah, definitely, gotta get half suits."
"A bespoke suit is 100% unique, made just for you."
"It's not just about sending one application everywhere, it's about tailoring each application properly."
"Fit and tailoring are so important. Finding pieces that fit you perfectly or investing a little bit of money to get them tailored is crucial."
"Working to get the pattern to fit the shoulders requires kind of a different type of measurement."
"...a tailored look is a little bit more appropriate."
"I've taken the best bits of both, so the collar and the cuffs are set in by hand."
"One of the most important parts of a bespoke shirt in my eyes is getting the shoulders right."
"...but personally, I think I like this look so much because the jacket is quite tailored matching that nice Tailoring on the pair of trousers."
"Are you ready? We are going to take 20 different measurements so that way we can make a professionally fitting bodice. It is gonna fit like a glove."
"This white tailed look hits everything that I want to see in terms of Tailoring on RM."
"That's the beauty of being a seamstress, right? We can fit a wardrobe."
"Remember, when drafting a high waist trouser pattern, the boneless part of your waist is where you'll be getting your waist circumference."
"...so from this 24 here, this is 40."
"...so I have 8 inches there, so 8 inches. Four inches will go to this side, like this, and four inches to this other side here."
"...so, because I'm working with a hip circumference of 42 inches, I'll go out from here by two inches."
"...so, guys, as you can see, it's all so easy. There's nothing much in drafting a trouser pattern."
"Blazers have always been my favorite... tailoring is just the thing that I love."
"Good tailoring is everything... to be truly chic, your clothes need to fit well."
"Tailoring is finding that delicate hand of taking the time to do that little bit of extra work to make sure that things lay properly."
"I could see how tailoring can be overwhelming, but honestly, I find it a lot of fun."
"The dress fits her perfectly, it's tailored to perfection."
"Ultimately, organizations use the tailoring process to achieve cost-effective, risk-based security that supports organizational mission business needs."
"The secretary's determination about how to tailor this relief recognized that the central purpose of the heroes act was implicated here."
"Tailors did a lot more than just menswear throughout history and the elements of what they used were much more universal than we might realize."
"Starting off at the top, we've got the cut; this is going to be the fit of the clothing."
"Bespoke comes from the term 'spoken for'."
"I want to embrace tailoring more... to feel really great in everything."
"We are tailors; we're bespoke tailors, so we really have to show off the best of what we do which is British bespoke tailoring."
"That's the magic of tailoring, that's where it comes from."
"This is how your suit should fit."
"It can help all of us learn how to make clothes that better fit our unique bodies."
"There's no better feeling than being able to sew your own clothes and get your perfect fit for a pair of pants."
"Tailoring takes a little bit of time, but here's the finished result: a great looking jacket completely lined."
"Sometimes the hardest part about making pants is getting that measurement just right."
"You might want to measure yourself each time you're making a new pair of pants, so you can get that right."
"Our shirts are bespoke, made specifically to your own specific measurements."
"This is the professional way to stitch a sleeve to make it look perfect and also to allow the movement of the arm."
"The contour of this really allows for a beautiful fit around the contour of our waistbands and our waist."
"If it's not right in the shirt shoulders, nothing else matters."
"We want to create a nice silhouette, something that is impeccably well-fitted, elegant, and timeless."
"The armhole of the shirt needs to be very high, that is a key difference between ready to wear and bespoke."
"Ensuring that the armhole is cut very high is very useful not just from an aesthetic standpoint but also from a functional standpoint."
"It would be a shame to not return Bond to some British tailoring."
"The bespoke process is that bespoke pattern 100% individualized to you, your body, its uniquenesses."
"Once you have one of these basic blocks, you are golden because you can draft anything from them and know it will fit."
"I own Primo Tailoring and Aspiring Gent where I teach people the art of tailoring as well as how to pair clothing and style themselves for success."
"The very first step, and probably the most important step, is actually making a lining and making sure that it fits perfectly."
"After the lining was done, I tried it on, and it fit perfectly."
"So the first thing I'm going to do is just kind of pinch out the excess and see just how much needs to come out."
"This jacket is tailored to perfection."
"I think it's impressive how they can make the dresses any color you want, tailored perfectly to your body."
"We're making it a lot narrower as we're getting closer to the top, so this is probably going to rest directly underneath the bust."
"Always go with your hip measurement; it is so easy to let in and out your waist."
"The first pattern was published by Juan de Alcega in 1580, his book 'Practice of Tailoring, Measuring and Marking Out' was to instruct tailors on how to cut out garments in the most economical way possible."
"I wanted it to fit nice, didn't I? How about that!"
"With custom clothes... you are supplying the company with a vast range of your individual measurements and they're producing an item for you which is exactly to your needs."
"Drape describes how fabric flows along your body because ultimately it's woven two-dimensionally but your suit is 3-dimensional."
"Darts just help to create more of an hourglass shape which is flattering for most men."
"The higher the drop the more waist suppression you have the broader your shoulders will appear and the slimmer you will look."
"The way you fold fabrics whether you add padding or not really influences the shape and the look of the sleeve."
"When you hear the term structured shoulder, it typically means that there is some form of padding, it's a little stiffer, and it helps the fabric to drape nicely."
"The look of a soft shoulder is more natural because it just follows the line of your shoulders."
"Suit is made for you, not like you've kind of borrowed it off your dad."
"There's something about suiting and tailoring that's really special."
"We have a large workshop where we have master tailors."
"A good tailor can actually take two very different materials and design something beautiful with them."
"So today we are going to tailor up a t-shirt that is too big, and I'm going to go over all those details so you can make your t-shirts fit perfectly."
"Remember, as you get older, a tailor is your best friend."
"Neapolitan tailoring is not about this accuracy - it's more about comfort, it's about the visible handwork, and something that is stylistically and aesthetically pleasing."
"Neapolitan shirts are typically tailored with more handwork and something that is called 'grinze,' which are little folds."
"Getting a shirt that is probably tailored with small arm holes will mostly alleviate the issue of having a shirt that comes untucked."
"As a guy that owned a custom clothier, I get the detail and the attention that goes into making something like this."
"The shoulder seam should sit in the correct place."
"Once the waist has been established, our trousers are unfinished, so we pin them, measure them, finalizing the fitting."
"With regards to the trouser length, it's very important that we have a single break just as the fabric hits the bridge of the shoe."
"You wear clothes for you, and having a suit that's cut made to order for you is gonna make you go into a meeting and feel really confident about yourself."
"If a suit is made right and it's good materials, it'll actually be very comfortable."
"There's a self-taught tailor who went from altering clothes for dry cleaners to making custom suits."
"Hong Kong's legendary Sam's Taylor is famous worldwide."
"Comfort is key, and I really am drawn to a modern silhouette, modern tailoring, and modern shapes."
"That triangle is just a great buffer for basically anchoring the pocket and it looks really nice and sharp as well."
"We're getting closer to having that custom pair of jeans."
"The balance means that when this pant leg hangs on your body, that the width of the front is what the width of your leg is, and then the width of the back is what the width of your back leg is."
"Centenary year of the famous Cumberland tailoring firm, how nice is that."
"After 10 months of work, I finally have my completed suit."
"I completely underestimated just how difficult making your own clothing actually is."
"Once you've done that, we move to the shoulder slope."
"Tailoring can also be accessible to them, especially nowadays when you have women holding such incredible positions."
"A master tailor is someone that really understands the garments in such a profound way."
"This is just going to make it look intentional like it's been tailored this way."
"My father's been a customer of Anderson Shepard since 1954."
"I love the Tailoring on the outfit, love the material choices, and I love that he's completely weathered."
"Every suit is made to your exact measurement, and you can customize every detail."
"This is legitimately one of the best fitting experiences that we've ever had."
"Learning how to tailor is an awesome skill to have."
"If the armhole that you're working with in the garment actually fits you perfectly, you don't want to increase the size of the armhole, you simply want to gain some extra in the middle of that bicep area."
"Once you have got the top and the bottom lines correct, you then are going to allow the bicep lines to overlap to try and achieve the amount that you want to add in."
"If you've added more than 1 inch (2.5 centimeters), you're going to need to make some changes to your bodice at the front and the back to make sure that the sleeve still fits into the armhole."
"You're going to need to true it, you're going to need to take those measurements, check and double check them because you want to make sure that your sleeve is going to fit into the armhole."
"One of my golden rules is at least one piece of tailoring."
"Being able to manipulate the pattern to get to fit your personal body is the most rewarding experience."
"The goal is to make the fabric feel like it's an addition that's in a response to the body underneath."
"This is probably one of the most common alterations to let out or take in the waist."
"With the back pattern almost cut and done, this is the finished pattern, the front and the back."
"Pattern Maker Pro is a made-to-measure system that means that every pattern drafted is based on a specific set of measurements."
"Slopers are the foundation for pretty much every single garment that will exist here in the program and also this is true in the real world."
"Once you get those slopers fitting perfectly by adjusting measurements as you need, then everything else that you do will fit very well because that's the way the system is designed to work."
"Pattern Maker Pro uses the height in the measurement set to make adjustments automatically."
"You'll find no age or gender boundaries in Pattern Maker Pro."
"The ultimate goal when we're easing the sleeve into the armhole is we don't want to actually see any gathers or pleats; we're creating fullness while still having a nice smooth seam."
"This is completely customizable and made to measure."
"I loved this orange plaid jacket; I just thought it was beautifully tailored."
"You should have one really expensive nice suit tailored to you perfect."
"It's easier to add an inch when you're not completely done than it is to make those big decisions once you've already finished the whole garment."
"Doing things along the way is something that's helped me save a lot of heartache with fit on garments too."
"A tailor can be your best friend, alright, keep that in mind."
"If you can make it to fit your body, there's not going to be any other garment out there that's more comfortable or better fitting."
"Seams are consistent, look at that, just needs to be pressed."
"Good suits do cost, yeah, and with the proper tailoring."
"I like a nice suit, a nice tailored suit."
"Clothing should be tailored to your body; it presents well and you feel good."
"It's probably like the best bust fit I've ever gotten from a historical mid-bust corset before."
"London's Mayfair, it's a golden mile of bespoke tailoring."
"It's the mecca for tailoring in the world."
"They do have this beautiful aesthetic that remains feminine with impeccable tailoring and clean lines."
"So well made, so well tailored, elegant and chic."
"Any successful bespoke garment is built on a relationship of trust."
"Crafting a suit, a bespoke suit by hand, requires 60 to 80 hours, two to three fittings; it's a long process."
"No matter how fitted, no matter how fine, no matter how good the trousers you constructed, if your client cannot put it on and off easily, they will not like it."
"I love that everyone is in tailoring."
"Abraham Titsworth was a world-renowned tailor downtown here in Chicago. He is responsible for tailoring and making Abraham Lincoln's inauguration suit."
"Good afternoon, sir. My, what impeccable tailoring you have."
"From a very early age, you had your sights set on London, and even before you left Trinidad, you'd already decided you wanted to become a suit maker, a tailor."
"I aspired to Savile Row. I had heard of Savile Row, where the captains of industry, politicians, prime ministers, presidents had their suits made."
"Like a young athlete wanting to be in Olympics, I wanted to be in the Olympics of tailoring, and Savile Row was the place for the best tailors in the land."
"I went to London and learned my business as an apprentice to two top British tailoring establishments."
"They do things really quick; she hemmed a ton of my pants for me and some of my Coachella outfits, and she does a really good job."
"If done well, your tailored clothing should in fact be the most comfortable garment you own."
"No one is a perfect human being, so what we do in tailoring is to give you your best body."
"The beauty of a bespoke tailoring relationship is that the more iterations you have, the easier it becomes and the better it gets."