When you decide that you want a custom garment from any tailor nor boutique, the measurement accuracy is the largest factor. This ensures that the piece fits you perfectly, and is able to enhance any features or even hide some features to boost your confidence. A question arises, Do I have to visit a tailor to get my measurements or can I measure it myself and have it sent to a tailor? This post will help you distinguish the difference and what to do if the latter is your only choice.
The Importance Of Accurate Body Measurements
No matter a bespoke or made-to-measure suit, it is crafted around your body, unlike off-the-rack ones, that are the other way around. Custom tailoring is a craft using real numbers of your arms, shoulders, chest, waist, useful for making a pattern suited for only your body. Minimal errors from a few centimeters off the actual length, will throw off the comfort, drape, and overall look of the suit or garment.
How Do Tailors Take Measurements ?
An experienced tailor checks your posture, how you naturally stand and sit. For suits, the crucial points are the shoulders, chest, waist, hips, sleeve length, back length, biceps. For shirts, the crucial points are shoulders, neck, chest, and cuff measurements. You can also give your tailor a heads up one your preferred choices, as they will also factor it. This would be the fit; slim, classic, relaxed and adjust it to your unique pattern. This is beyond wrapping a tape measure around your body and getting the numbers.
Can You Use Your Own Measurements?
Of course, this often serves the purpose for remote and online orders. It works accurately as well, once followed by the measurement guide correctly (on the tailor’s website, they will often have this and you can follow it, step by step) and a flexible tape measure, we recommend another helping hand too (measuring yourself might be a challenge doing it alone).
Mistakes that are often visible include, pulling the measuring tape too tight, measuring the body when slouching, or measuring on loose clothing. By following a good guideline online or by the one provided from your tailor and a well structured form helps get the job done easier and faster.
Now, Should You Self-Measure VS In-Person Measure?
When curiosity takes over, self-measuring helps solve this and you can get a better understanding ahead from what you’re going to see and get at a tailor. However, In-person measuring is always the better option, sometimes you get to see some small adjustments you overlook, because a professional always knows best, the shoulder fit, posture tweaks, sleeve length, and overall silhouette, are missed from numbers alone.
How Does New David Jone Fashion Solve This?
We make self measuring easier for online orders and the curious ones. With our step-by-step measuring guide and forms to add those numbers for both men’s and women’s suits, shirts, blouses, pants, and skirts. Not to mention a walkthrough video guide, in case you want to be extra sure and multiple garment types to choose from. We also save your measurements for future orders, just remember your order number or give us your name + country that you ordered to, no hassle for our returning clients (if you have gained or lost weight, do give us a heads up and send us a picture of you full body, front and back). Plus, when on a tight schedule to Phuket, we can make your visit more convenient with hotel pickup services and deliveries.
Don’t wait up, get yours now! At the best tailor in Phuket, New David Jone Fashion. No boasting, just great service and garments, as seen on our reviews across multiple platforms.
Contact us for any kind of questions or just drop by our tailor shop in Patong, Otop.
