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THE INFLUENTIAL MAN
{ SHIFT+CONTROL }{ THE INFLUENTIAL MAN } YOU ARE ENOUGH. THEY DON’T MAKE CUSTOM BUSINESS CLOTHING FOR WOMEN
BY NICOLE HEROUX WILLIAMS I PHOTOS BY NSP STUDIO BY VINCENT DIGIORGIO
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What do 99% of the custom tailors online have in common?
They don’t make custom business clothing for women.
You would be very hard-pressed to find anyone that makes custom tailored clothing for women.
I’m not talking about custom dresses and blouses. I’m talking about custom suits, sport coats, slacks, and custom shirts.
The overwhelming majority of custom tailors only make custom clothing for men.
But why would that be the case?
It all boils down to the fact that women’s clothing is technically harder to fit. Women’s body proportions can vary a great deal from bust, to waist, to seat.
Also, women are more in tune with their own bodies and the fit of their clothing. They know what they want and what they like. Women’s clothing is a harder fit, which is why many suit makers are not willing, nor capable of making custom clothing for women.
On the other hand, manufacturers of off the rack clothing tend to be in one of two categories for women. Either very inexpensive, using man-made fibers with the least expensive construction possible. The other is fashionable clothing that are well-made with expensive designer labels, but unfortunately, since they are still rack sizes, they don’t fit as well as something is made for them.
The high end fashion brands also are notorious for making their garments in smaller easier to fit sizes. Just try to find anything for plus size women. It’s
very disappointing.
Typically the only place you can find tailors to make custom clothing is in the Far East, like Hong Kong and Thailand. The issue with these tailors is that the population of those countries tend to be pettit. Therefore, Finding companies that have plus size or american sized patterns are very difficult to find in Asia. There are tailors out there that have the proper skill set to create their own individual patterns for customers, they are few and far between. They also command a premium for their very specialized skills.
The women that need, and are able to afford custom clothing are women that are filling C-level positions in the workplace. The industry has not caught up with the demand for women’s custom business wear, because the demand is still not high enough to retool and re-educate tailors in the art of making women’s clothing.
There are tailors like myself that have been making women’s custom tailored clothing for years. The rest of the industry will grow when the demand grows enough for the custom clothing industry to respond with more tailors willing to create their own custom womens businesses.
The best advice I can give is if you don’t have a local custom clothier, buy clothing that is slightly larger sized. Then find a local tailor that is familiar with ladies garments and have them altered down to fit you as best as possible.
Always at your service,
Vincent DiGiorgio
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