Guides

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 fusedWhat 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 tripWhat 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 degreesTropical 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• Single versus double breastedDouble-breasted is not outdated, it is specific — and the common advice that it is slimming has it backwards for most builds.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 cuffsEvery 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 abroadA 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

The garments themselves are underbespoke suits,tailored shirts andtrousers, blazers and separates. The cloth decision is on cloth and construction, the appointments on how a fitting works, and we come to you — where we come to you.