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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I've had some pants altered by a Korean tailor lady near my house, and she always makes the pants too short. Always. I adjusted, and when she would pin the hems I would say, "Now add an inch." She would add a quarter-inch and I would say, "More. Add a full inch." So she would add a full inch to get them to the right length, and then I'd get them back and she'd shortened them back up after I left.
My point being that clothes should be comfortable for the wearer, and tailors don't always understand or abide by that. So you have to find the right tailor.
Also, I had a bunch of my clothes adjusted when I lost a fair amount of weight a few years back. She said something like, "Ohhhh, you used be fat. You not fat now."
A couple of years later, I took something in to be tailored and she looked at me and said, "Ohhh, you getting fatter." I'd gained back maybe 10 pounds of the 40 that I'd lost.
My point also being that tailors may not have tact, especially if they're older Korean women.
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The tailor I go to is an old man in his 70s. I don't trust women to tailor any of my clothes. When I tell a man that I like my suit sleeves long enough that my dress shirt doesn't show when I'm bringing my crown and coke glass up to my lips, I know he understands what the **** I'm talking about.