The Rare Find of a Great Custom Suit Tailor
January 20th, 2010
If there ever was a dying art form its the custom suit tailor and his sartorial creations. More and more people are avoiding the custom tailor shop and looking more towards buying suits off the rack. This is great news for department stores who specialize in the higher end suits, but its bad news to the passionate few who still revere and crave the fine tailoring that only a master tailor can deliver.
Why is this happening? It really comes down to simple supply and demand. time was the only way to buy a suit was to go to a custom suit tailor, but as technology evolved and department stores replaced main street shops, the master tailor saw less and less business. Many actually went out of business or gave up their art form to pursue other more proftiable ventures. This caused a title wave of change, as more and more master tialors quit this meant that they were not taking on new apprentices. Fast foward 20 years later and you now have a small fraction of trained and capable old world tailors, some of which are not teaching their craft. this means when they are done with the game, their tradition goes with them.
Maybe we are seeing a resurgnce as for the first time in decades more and more men are starting to go back to traditional tailoring again. infact it was reported recently that depratment stores ahve seen a steady decline in off the rack sales while cusotm sales ahve seen double digit percentage increases.
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