How to Find a Tailor You Can Trust | Make Your Clothes Fit Better
About this video
McGoff provides a comprehensive guide to finding, testing, and building a long-term relationship with a trustworthy tailor. He emphasizes that proper fit is fundamental to style and demonstrates his process for vetting tailors through online research, phone screening, and strategic test projects before committing to regular alterations.
Key takeaways
- McGoff argues that clothing fit is more important than brand, price, or trends, and that tailoring transforms how you look and feel in your clothes
- McGoff recommends using Google and Yelp to find tailors near your home or workplace, prioritizing positive reviews and checking if they can preserve original jean hems as a quality indicator
- McGoff suggests testing a new tailor with simple alterations like hemming jeans first, then progressing to more complex work like shirt tailoring before bringing important pieces
Episode details: published February 27, 2018 · 72K views · 7:43 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style advice summarized here is Brock McGoff’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are his, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.
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