Tuxedo

Custom Made Tuxedos or Dinner Suit is all hand made with finest silk facing, linings and canvas. All button holes are hand made and the garment is hand finished. And there is nothing ordinary about the work you will receive. Ahmed Tailor "old-world" craftsmanship includes meticulous hand-cut work by our tailors, producing a garment of the highest quality. Houston Bespoke Tailor huge inventory of fine Italian and English fabrics, warehoused in on-site facilities, saves our customers the enormous expense of custom ordering involved with other custom tailors. This is one of the important ways we are able to price tailored garments at uncommon savings.

The fourth/final appointment - third fitting

Depending on your shape, this may be your final fitting. If so the cutter will check that the adjustments have been done correctly and if you are happy with the suit you can take it home.
If further adjustments are required it will be returned to the tailors until it is perfect. Cutters are perfectionists by nature and a good cutter will not rest until the suit is perfect.
After all he has a reputation to protect.
All in all this process involves 80 to 100 hours of manual work by skilled craftsmen. This is one of the reasons why fully bespoke suits are so much more expensive than made to measure suits.

The third appointment - second fitting

At this point the suit will be at a more advanced stage of tailoring and may be almost completely finished (depending on the complexity of your shape). All of the alterations carried out by the specialist bespoke adjustment tailor will be assessed and scrutinised by the cutter. The final adjustments will be marked up and then carried out by the tailors.

Bespoke Tailoring - The second appointment - first fitting

The second appointment - first fitting

At this stage you will have your first fitting and the cutter will assess the accuracy of his measurements. The basted suit is a blueprint or 'first draft' of the final version and can be radically altered if necessary. The cutter will make notes and usually chalk several marks on the suit to instruct the tailors on how the suit is to be altered. The fact that the suit is only basted together allows you the opportunity to dramatically change the style if you wish. For example there are no buttonholes on this garment so if you want to raise or lower the buttoning position this is easily possible. You also have the opportunity to narrow or widen the lapels or shoulders if you wish. These options would not be possible on a made to measure or semi bespoke suit.

Hand stitching after the baste stage

More on Bespoke Tailoring from Houston Bespoke Tailor

Ahmed Tailor offers his clients a comprehensive range of products and services. Bespoke tailoring of suits for business or formal wear, jackets, blazers and trousers for casual wear and overcoats. Bespoke shirts for business, formal, leisure and sporting wear and hand made shoes from Alden New England, USA. one of US most prestigious shoemakers. In addition Ahmed delights in designing and creating very special one off pieces of clothing that are limited only by a client’s imagination. Gentlemen’s wardrobe consultation services are also available.

At Ahmed Tailor every item of bespoke clothing is made to the client’s exact measurements. Individual physical characteristics are also taken into account in the preparation of each client’s unique pattern. Through out personal consultation plays a pivotal role in the process.

Traditions of Savile Row

In keeping with the traditions of Savile Row, Ahmed works with his own team of specialist jacket and trouser makers in Houston Texas. Their combined skills and painstaking attention to detail, together with the use of the highest quality materials, ensures that no other method produces a better garment for fit, styling, quality and durability.

Ahmed Tailor offers an enormous range of international fabrics, primarily sourced from British & Italian suppliers. From the world’s oldest and most respected fabric houses comes cloth in an infinite variety of colours, patterns and textures, cashmere, silks, cottons and linens.

Ahmed is extremely discrete and will not talk about individual clients.  This is not surprising when his passion for discrete personal service, old world craftsmanship and the finest of materials continues to create clothes of timeless elegance and unparalleled quality that will last a lifetime.

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Bespoke versus made-to-measure

Between the extremes of bespoke and ready-to-wear has existed, since the end of the 19th century, a "grey area of garments for which the customer was measured, but that were then made up to the closest standard size, often, but by no means always, in a factory.  "The distinction made here is between bespoke, created without use of a pre-existing pattern, and made to measure, which alters a standard-sized pattern to fit the customer. Technological change makes this distinction more subtle, since "fittings are increasingly required for both bespoke and made-to-measure; a bespoke service may require an individually-cut pattern, which is then kept should further suits be required, and now made-to-measure measurements are often stored too, on a computer. Even hand-work, often cited as a benchmark of bespoke, is now increasingly found in made-to-measure garments, while machine-making plays some part in the creation of most bespoke suits".

Fitting of a Bespoke Jacket

Trousers break

It is nice to have a break because it creates a clean line at the back of the trouser, adding to the lengthening silhouette that is the suit’s main aesthetic advantage. Because when a man is walking it looks more elegant if his suit trousers flap less and expose less of his ankle. 

If the trouser were longer, it would create a puddle of folds that could ruin the silhouette of a suit, dragging the eye down and making a man look shorter. If the trouser were shorter, it would flap around the ankle and remove any elegance – probably reminding the viewer of a schoolboy in short pants.

Men on the European continent tend to wear their trousers shorter than is recommended there. They do that because they wish to expose their footwear, and perhaps their socks, to more inspection. Both are more a part of their outfit than for a English or American man. To quote one famous Italian “I don’t necessarily want people to see my socks, but I want to make sure they can see my shoes.”

Traditionally trousers were always worn to just reach the shoe without breaking. Trouser legs were often quite wide, so flapping could probably not be avoided (maybe by using thicker fabrics)

The traditional length in the 20s/30s Was cut to the shoe level, or even a bit shorter. The flapping aspect was helped a lot by the fact that they wore much thicker materials, largely flannel and tweeds, which do not have the potential airy problems of worsted.