Today l had some time to kill in Auckland downtown so I walked down to Preston and Maurice's tiny tailor shop. Brendon de Silva was stitching away but waved me inside as I peered through the door.... and I got a 45 minute, highly detailed, enthusiastic class on how bespoke suits in the Savile Row tradition are constructed and why they fit and work the way they do. No sales pitch, just a guy who loves making suits talking about how you make a suit. It was great.
I don't know that I will ever drop weeks of pay for an average person on a single garment but I know much better what idtget for it if I did now.
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