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A good friend of mine is about to get married next week, and being honored as well as excited as one of the groomsman, I contacted my two tailors, one to commission a black two button suits the other is to order a pair of white dress shirts.

As you are well aware, I’m not a first time customers for both tailors, and knowing their past performance I allowed myself plenty of time margin to mitigate any contingency. Alas, even with level of experience that I have, sometimes few weeks of time margin is still not enough. These are what happened with my two projects.

The Black Suit
After went through a successful first fitting, the final results comes with a lot of disappointment, first the trousers is too loose on the leg, the shoulder too wide and bulky, and the arms an inch too long. Not happy at all with this I asked for iteration, addressing the above comments. A week later the result finished, and I’m still not happy. My tailor loosens one surface of the shoulder pads, shorten the arms and tighten the trousers. Unfortunately this is not enough, the shoulder is still to bulky, and the trousers pocket standout rather weirdly.

The Dress Shirts
The shirts were commissioned through a phone call, with rather simple instructions. Two order of shirts, in white, using the same material as my current shirts-which still in their possession, with French cuff and no breast pocket. The results ? Wrong material and comes with the breast pocket. This is not acceptable, and I have to refuse the shirt as it nowhere near my request (except the white part and French cuffs part). With only one week left, there is no way I can have the shirt ready on time, and hence I have surrender my desire to wear the new dress shirts to the wedding.

Obviously, the mistake comes from the tailors, whom for whatever reasons, producing the wrong results. But I should be able to mitigate this. For example for the suit, I should have sample jacket and sample trousers  shown to the tailor at the first meeting, ensure that he gets what I mean. And as for the shirts, I have 3 weeks to check on the first results, but I procrastinate, hence when the error is identified, I’ve loose any opportunity to fix it on time.

Regret always come to late, and if I have any advice to you, “Do not take any chance”.

When I sent an email to Meticulous couple of days ago, I wasn’t sure that I would receive any reply. So I was pleasantly surprise when on the very next morning an email drop from a guy by the name Edwin arrived on my mail box, and confirmed my request.

The bottom line of my request is that I want to acquired a small quantity of ties from Meticulous, to be used on my dear cousin wedding in Bali, next April, for the groom family, which includes me, my cousins, and uncles. Knowing that my request is out of ordinary, I’m expecting much, so when Edwin confirmed that he’ll be able to help and offered his suggestion on which color to pick, I’m ecstatic.

Anyway, I haven’t made any decision yet on which pattern to pick , but I will throw out some options on my reply email to Edwin, and see which pattern that he has for the color I want (pale green).

That point aside, having read my earlier post about Meticulous, Edwin did insert some clarification to issues in doubt:

I must clarfiy that “hand made” refers to the manual stitching and inserting / alignment of the inner lining for each tie even though the fabric are now cut by machines rather than by tailors And we are actually on the second floor of Suntec Tower 3/4.

Either way around, I’m still a happy customer of Meticulous. Anyway, I plan to reply his email before Monday, and I will keep you updated on the progress.