Comments | lorihollet: Tailors for butches?

lorihollet

Tailors for butches?

Feb 10, 2010 10:35

A butch friend of mine is getting married and is trying to find a suit. Does anyone know a good tailor or suit vendor who will work with butches and make them feel comfortable in a man's suit? Close to New York would be good...

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twostepsfwd February 10 2010, 17:22:41 UTC

Men's Wearhouse is great for this
But really any tailor will be happy to do this, in my experience

surblimity February 10 2010, 18:37:53 UTC

Men's Wearhouse, yeah? Just any old Men's Wearhouse?

I've had fine experience buying suits at Century 21 and Express, but those were just off the rack. The tailoring I got done on them at random tailors has been fine, but I always feel like I'd love to work with someone who specializes in making man style suits for someone with a body like mine (a truly unfair amount of curves for someone who doesn't really want any!) Maybe it doesn't make much of a difference?

twostepsfwd February 10 2010, 18:59:16 UTC

I've had good experiences at Men's Wearhouse, so have many other women (butch and otherwise) that I know. I'm sure they vary from place to place but in general I've heard only good things.

And though I do understand how nice it would be to go to a tailor who specializes in men's clothes on women's bodies, honestly any good tailor should be able to give you what you want as long as there's good communication between you and they're skilled at what they're doing.

I am also getting married (summer '11) but I'm probably gonna do linen suit pants with a loose silk or linen shirt of some sort, not a full-on suit. I'll likely look for the linen pants from a women's store because I sometimes find that women's pants that look like men's pants end up looking better on me and don't require expensive tailoring, but we'll see. My dream is to get a custom-made shirt, but I doubt I'll actually do that.

surblimity February 10 2010, 18:35:24 UTC

I'm looking forward to reading folks' recommendations - I always wonder this myself!

strauss February 10 2010, 20:37:21 UTC

I wish I knew an answer to this.
My hesitancy about marriage is only partially my resistance to the institution--a fair amount of it is also having no clue what to wear!! ::blush::

zanyassmask February 11 2010, 16:25:32 UTC

just to add some probably unhelpful info: even when working with men, true 'suit' tailors are out to make us look a little weird. they don't understand why people wear their pants lower than their rib cage and they continue to insist that a true suit pant should drape so that the lower body is eggplant-shaped.