The men's dress style thread..

[Webbo2]

I think if I was so doubting of the tailors time management and quality control I be taking them somewhere else.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I think if I was so doubting of the tailors time management and quality control I be taking them somewhere else.

This prompts me to repeat a favourite bit of mine from Samuel Beckett's Endgame.

Nagg tells a long rambling joke about an Englishman and a tailor. The tailor keeps delaying completion of a pair of trousers, saying that he hasn't quite got them right. Eventually the Englishman loses patience...

"God damn you to hell, Sir, no, it's indecent, there are limits! In six days, do you hear me, six days, God made the world. Yes Sir, no less Sir, the WORLD! And you are not bloody well capable of making me a pair of trousers in three months!"

(Tailor's voice, scandalized.)
"But my dear Sir, my dear Sir, look--
(disdainful gesture, disgustedly)
--at the world--
(pause)
and look--
(loving gesture, proudly)
--at my TROUSERS!"

 

[Profpointy]

There's the story of the old gentleman who had died and whilst going through his stuff his son came upon a cobbler's ticket dating back to the 60. "I wonder ..." he said to himself, and being a bit mischievous he went along to the cobbler's, which was still going, and presented them with the ticket. The cobbler looked at it, then went in the back, returning empty handed.
"They'll be ready next tuesday"

 

[winjim]

The woman who does my hemming has me put them on and pins them up while I'm wearing then so we know they're right. I think going by measurement alone could be risky.

I do pay her in advance...

 

[Accy cyclist]

Rate the top hat, I've just tried on now as I post!😉

 

[Elybazza61]

Nice pick-up today ;pair of Spoke black jeans (unworn and on the smart side) for £14.00,usually retail for £99.00.
Not quite as good as the Japanese Iron Heart jeans I got last year but still too good to leave behind.