I bought a cheap suit with the intention of making it look good through tailoring, but I don’t know how to actually get that done. The local stores don’t have websites and haven’t picked up when I called, should I just walk in with the suit? Do I need an appointment? Also, how much should I expect to pay? (California)

I live a fair drive from the local alternation/tailor shops (rural life), so I figured I’d try to ask before making the drive out just to make a fool of myself.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, that’s in the difficult range from what I’ve been told. The good thing is that most suits in that size range should be alterable as long as it fits right through the shoulders and the arms are long enough. Even the cheap suits in that range tend to be fairly easy to work with as long as the person isn’t a lifter or very overweight, and that doesn’t seem to be an issue here.

    At least that’s what my tailor said back when I had to wear a damn monkey suit for work sometimes. I’m a big guy, so I was curious about what he was doing, which led to a nice little mini ted talk about it. He did a lot of work for the really huge lifters, including the ones that were shorter than average. Managed to make folks look good even in meh to bad suits.