Online Mens Tailor And Custom Tailoring

Common Questions about Product Features

• What is the ´Allow us to make a Suggestion´ Feature?
  This special feature allows you to ask for suggestions from our expert tailors on helping you determine what custom made item best meets your wishes and needs. Our Master Tailors will ask a few basic questions on the included form, and you will receive answers and feedback within 24 hours. This is a great opportunity to get custom advice based on specific information you provide. Our tailors can make suggestions relative to fabric, style, color, pattern, and accessory suggestions for expanding your wardrobe.

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• What are off-site purchases?
  These are purchases made using promotions, emailed offers, and products bought on our auctions. In essence, these are all purchases not made directly from our website.

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• What are Morning Pants?
  Morning Dress Pants are a specific category of men´s formal dress. They are worn with a Top Hat and Tails and are most frequently worn by male members of a wedding party. In common with Court Dress, Mess Dress and White Tie Dress, Morning Dress is usually reserved for particularly prestigious or very formal occasions. Despite the name, Morning Pants are usually worn any time before 5pm. It is also becoming increasingly common to continue wearing them into the evening. Morning Pants should not have turn-ups (cuffs), and should have one pleat to each leg. Braces should be worn to prevent the waistband from appearing beneath the waistcoat. Typically Morning Pants are charcoal grey with stripes and are worn with Dove Tail Morning Coats and White Waistcoats. We recommend the highest quality Exclusive and Deluxe Selections for Morning Pants. These fabric types are imported from Italy, France and the U.K., and are all pure wool and cashmere, unless otherwise specified.

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• Can I order shirts with contrast collars and cuffs? Can you make shirts with white collars and white cuffs?
  We can make to measure, almost any style of shirts or suits per your requirements. Dress shirts with contrast collars and cuffs or business shirts with white collars and cuffs are frequent requests and there is no additional charge. All fabrics and colors for shirts can be used with a white or contrasted collar and cuff. All collar styles and all types of Barrel or French Cuffs can be made in white or other contrasting colors with a different base color of the shirt.
  Use our Style search page and type in the words,´white collar´ or ´white cuffs´ in the keywords field to view these options.

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• What is button stance?
  On jackets, blazers and coats the position where the first button starts on the chest is called a button stance. This is usually defined as a standard, low, or high button stance. A low button stance essentially means a longer gorge and a high button stance means a higher gorge.

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• What are hand stitched lapels and pockets?
  Hand stitched lapels and pockets are features that were first introduced when all suits were only hand made. At that time the two shells, outer and inner shells, were constructed separately and sewn together. The jacket edges were sewn in by hand to retain integrity and smooth out the edges. Hand sewing created small ripple effects on the jacket lapels and pockets which custom tailors today replicate as a style option. In high-end suits, this is done by machine stitching tiny ´dog tooth´ stitches on the lapels. We offer this as an optional feature in our suits and utilize the original hand sewn method. Click on ´hand stitched lapels and pockets´ to see the image of this effect on the finished product.

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• What is a Sulptured Collar?
  A Sculptured Collar, also called the Pat Riley Collar or a dove-tail collar, is found on some trendy shirt styles. It is a spread collar where the front edges of the collar curve away from each other in an arc. This gives the appearance of two semi-curved arcs in the front on the sides of the tie space. Review the Style search page and type in the words ´sculptured collar´ in the keywords field to view multiple shirt styles with this collar.

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• What is Glen Plaid?
  Glen Plaid (or glenurquhart) is the genus and Prince of Wales Plaid is a species. Glen-Plaid refers only to the plaid pattern, whatever its color or scale. The particular rust-red, large-scale plaid described above is an old Scottish "district check" that was popularized by David, Prince of Wales, in the 1920s. Thus it came to be known as the "Prince of Wales Plaid." In later years, the terms came to be conflated, so that people would refer to any glen-plaid as a PoW plaid. But, technically, the true PoW plaid is the particular district check first popularized by the prince who became Edward VIII and then the Duke of Windsor. Keywords: glen-plaid, glen, plaid, glen plaid, check, squares, checks, checkered, checquered, plaids, Prince of Wales plaid, district check, prince of wales, jackets, sports, sports jackets, blazer, blazers, suit, suits, men´s, plaid suit, check suit, Prince of Wales Suit, plaid jacket, check jacket, prince of wales jacket, coat, coats, hunting jacket, plaid hunting jacket, check hunting jacket.

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• What is PVC ? What is Pleather ?
  Pleather is PVC leather, also known as poly vinyl chloride, that is imitation leather. It is synthetic material.

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• Can I make changes to styles that are displayed in the various collections?
  Yes. Click the special requests page that comes up for the style that comes closest to what you have selected.

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