Quotes About Tailoring

Clients become very attached to the fitter who they feel understands them.

To be truly soigne, a man should have 80 suits.

It's always nice to have new clothes made for you.

So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.

A lot of people went to posh universities, but I left at 17 to work for three years at Frank Newton's Gentleman's Outfitters in Shrewsbury, where I gained a professional qualification in how to measure a suit.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Guys out there have no sense of how their clothes should fit.

it was necessary to bait the hook to suit the fish.

One cannot help wondering if the day will ever arrive when tailoring clothes for people in accordance with their height and girth will ever be considered discriminatory and therefore prohibited; such a practice must of necessity make (invidious) distinctions between individuals, and this is what the equalitarian philosophy would appear to deem improper.

I purchased some clothes for you," Theodora said..."I was given you measurements, so hopefully they fit. If they don't, you will have to either lose or gain weight or height.

Mr. Abraham, driven to desperation by the endless delays of the tailor who was making him a pair of trousers, finally cried, "Tailor, in the name of Heaven, it has already taken you six weeks!" "So?" "So, you ask? Six weeks for a pair of pants? Reboyne Shel Oylem! It took God only six days to create the universe!" "Nu," shrugged the tailor, "look at it….

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

I stumbled upon the 3x1 shop because it's a few doors up from the 'V' magazine offices on Mercer. The store is intense: They can take your measurements, and the sewers are right there behind glass making what amounts to a couture pair of jeans.

Know what your listeners care about, so you can tailor your communication to them.

A physical store cannot be reconfigured on the fly to cater to each customer based on his or her particular interests.

Yes but he is a man though, don't you see? You could knit one quicker than you can make one fit off-the-shelf.

I think every Internet user likes personalization.

Remember, the fit of your outfit can make or break your look. Ensure the fit is perfect, and you will be just fine.

A rigid, one-size-fits-all approach usually ends up fitting no one

Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a cashmere sweater or a sleek, solid velvet tie.

This man's suit has a life of its own. It sparkles with vitality and wit, and seems to glow with the same perfect health as the man wearing it. This suit is the kind of thing ambitious tailors dream of making when they hear that royalty is in town.

Why "one size fits all" development methodologies don't work

Planeando su Balzac, Rodin llegó a rastrear a un sastre que el novelista había empleado cuarenta años antes; y le encargó un traje con las medidas del muerto.