Guides
Written for the question you are actually asking before you order: whether the garment is built the way it is being described. Nothing here sells a suit — the useful ones are the pages that tell you what to ask us, and what a bad answer sounds like. From our bespoke tailoring in Bangkok.
There are 7 of them, grouped by the decision each one helps with. Two are worth reading even if you buy from someone else: the one on construction, because it is the question that separates this market, and the one on the scam stories, because the honest version is more useful than either the warnings or the reassurance.
Before you order
The two questions that separate tailors in this city faster than price does, and the one most comparisons never ask.
- Full canvas, half canvas and fused What the layer inside a jacket front actually is, why glue fails in this climate specifically, and a fifteen-second test you can do with your own thumb on a jacket in a shop.
- Is the Bangkok tailor scam real? The pattern is real and it is almost never theft — it is substitution, sold in the vocabulary of a made garment. Four questions that settle it before you order, and why price is the wrong test.
- A suit on a short trip What each stage of making a suit requires, which one a two-day promise has to remove, and how to plan a trip around it. No day count is promised, and the page says why.
Choosing cloth
Bangkok sits at thirty-five degrees and air-conditions to twenty-two. Both numbers matter, and the weave decides more than the fibre.
- Cloth for thirty-five degrees Tropical suiting is sold everywhere as a summer cloth, which assumes a winter to put it away for. There is not one here, and that changes what is worth owning.
Cut and detail
The decisions that are about your proportions rather than your taste.
- Single versus double breasted Double-breasted is not outdated, it is specific — and the common advice that it is slimming has it backwards for most builds. What it does to your shape, and the extra layer of cloth it puts across your chest in this heat.
- Collars and cuffs Every collar name describes one measurement: the spread between the points. The six worth knowing, the two measurements nobody mentions, and why a fused collar bubbles here.
Afterwards
What happens once the pattern exists, which is when this stops being difficult.
- Reordering from abroad A repeat order works remotely because the draft is already here. A first order does not, and we would rather say so than take it. Also the part about import duty that is not ours to quote.
What is not here yet
Several more are planned and are published on a weekly cycle rather than all at once. A few others have been deliberately left unwritten — a page on the mills behind a Bangkok suit would have to name cloth merchants we have not confirmed we stock, and the guides on what a suit should cost are waiting on a decision about publishing prices at all. We would rather leave a gap than fill it with something we cannot stand behind.
Where to go instead if you are ready
- Bespoke suits — the garment itself.
- Tailored shirts — cut to your collar and cuff.
- Trousers, blazers and separates — ordered on their own.
- Cloth and construction — the cloth decision.
- How a fitting works — the appointments, in sequence.
- Where we come to you — we bring the appointment to you.
Ask us the questions in these guides
We would rather be asked than assumed about.
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