For instance, maybe the tailors who assembled the skirt may have had good working conditions.
The tailors who still work in and around London's Savile Row are experts at disentangling the military, medical and sporting threads that form the modern suit.
Cheng, who had the suits for his wedding in the Maldives made here last year, looks totally at home, chatting to the tailors in Cantonese (though, unlike many Hong Kong Chinese, Cheng is also fluent in Mandarin).
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So I walked into the oldest tailors and found a job where I could learn to cut cloth professionally.
"They're like a puzzle, " Mr. Kimmel said of each new convertible garment he develops, adding that the Italian tailors he works with have usually never seen anything like it.
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In American Idol's case, a team of roughly 15 people tailors the second screen experience for each week's contest developments.
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For business suits, members tend to frequent the same three tailors.
He sent me a complimentary sample, which I recently carried to Hong Kong and back, with one suit on the way over and thanks to custom tailors, two on the way back.
Kerstin Voigt accepts that China can mass produce cheaply, but says her company gets its edge because it tailors instruments to the needs of musicians.
Permaculture also takes all the things we need -- our housing, energy sources, food and water supplies -- and tailors them to fit into the natural rhythms of the ecosystem.
Schemer tailors its recommendations to the time and the weather, so if it's a rainy afternoon the app will recommend a museum visit instead of a long hike.
In place of the kosher butchers, fish-fryers, boot-makers, furriers and tailors who lined Brick Lane itself a century ago, and the weavers and cheese-makers of Huguenot days, there are now sari centres, halal restaurants and vendors of exotic produce.
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On the other hand, bespoke boots are special and collectible, but the problem is that unlike custom clothing shops in London or Shanghai, the artists are individuals, not staffs of tailors, and make very limited production.
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She takes those and other responses and tailors a trip to suit everyone in the group.
Presumably, if this novel scheme is successful, Dutch tailors will soon be plucking people from the dole queues to cope with a rush of alterations.
Tailors have also completed sets of clothes for the new pope to wear as soon as he is elected.
Moreover, the Regency rake would purchase different garments from different specialist tailors.
All the tweed coats and jackets (British fabrics, Indian tailors) and cardigans (British wool and patterns, family-women knitters) came out of mothballed trunks.
Meltwater tailors its clipping service to specific clients and copies the headline and lead paragraph of stories, the filing said.
Zindel's brothers Abraham and Salomon were tailors in Paris, and it was there that the 15-year-old Herschel was sent in 1936.
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Local people said the men moved into the house about four months ago and told them they were tailors for a Jakarta-based company.
With a sleek online storefront where customers can book fitting appointments, the goal, Mr. Ng says, is to give tailors better working conditions and better business by catering to Hong Kong's pool of young and Web-savvy expatriates, in part through its social mission of hiring youth with drug addictions to serve as tailor apprentices.
The Korean presence is especially strong Korean restaurants, Korean tailors, Korean barber shops.
Three of my four grandparents were tailors, so Ray was genetically programmed to quickly master the basics, like mending a split seam or refastening a button.
Certain tailors, like Richard James and Ozwald Boateng, are associated with the use of flamboyant colours.
In the City and on Wall Street, he was an impeccable dresser, besuited by English tailors.
Chicago-based startup Proper Suit is doing another of its fitting events in DC today, where customers spend an hour in a private meeting with tailors who take precise measurements (old school) for an AutoCAD-constructed suit that arrives in the mail approximately four weeks later (new school).
Elderly tailors play mah-jongg on green-felted tables, while others watch television or lie snoring in the heat.
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