Finding a genuinely good tailor
Simple question: Any suggestions on how to approach this beyond the usual yelp/Google reviews, ask people, etc.?
Likely a function of living in US flyover country, but I am finding it remarkably hard to find tailors who genuinely know their trade. Maybe I'm asking too much but I was hoping to find a tailor with some vague idea of how clothes "should" fit that can help me figure out the best approach.
Any secrets to finding good ones beyond trial and error? I keep hoping I'll stumble across the mystical "100 year old Italian man who hand stitched troop uniforms in WW2" that I can go to and just say "make this fit" and have him work his magic. Instead, I'm finding even simple pants hems get messed up because I didnt think to specify "Please trim the fabric or at least match the thread to the pant color so I don't look like I have cuffs halfway up my calf." Is this where I am or is this just reality now and tailoring is a mostly dead trade unless you are in NYC/London/etc.?
Likely a function of living in US flyover country, but I am finding it remarkably hard to find tailors who genuinely know their trade. Maybe I'm asking too much but I was hoping to find a tailor with some vague idea of how clothes "should" fit that can help me figure out the best approach.
Any secrets to finding good ones beyond trial and error? I keep hoping I'll stumble across the mystical "100 year old Italian man who hand stitched troop uniforms in WW2" that I can go to and just say "make this fit" and have him work his magic. Instead, I'm finding even simple pants hems get messed up because I didnt think to specify "Please trim the fabric or at least match the thread to the pant color so I don't look like I have cuffs halfway up my calf." Is this where I am or is this just reality now and tailoring is a mostly dead trade unless you are in NYC/London/etc.?
