Can you get your clothes tailored to fit you?

[Murphy Durphy]

I'm skinny and most of my shirts tend to kind of get loose in the back and it just doesn't look how I'd like it to. Have any of you ever gotten clothes tailored to fit you? Are there really mom and pop stores that do that kind of thing for regular clothes?

 

[kranky]

Look in the Yellow Pages under Tailors. Also, a lot of dry cleaners will do alterations.

 

[PingSpike]

Just shrink them in the dryer.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Just shrink them in the dryer.

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Ausm

 

[Kenazo]

For the right price I'm sure you can get anything done to your clothes that you'd like.

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
For the right price I'm sure you can get anything done to your clothes that you'd like.

I mean ANYTHING

 

[HN]

don't worry about the cupping. it's normal. even when get shirts done.

 

[JImmyK]

Originally posted by: Murphy Durphy
I'm skinny and most of my shirts tend to kind of get loose in the back and it just doesn't look how I'd like it to. Have any of you ever gotten clothes tailored to fit you? Are there really mom and pop stores that do that kind of thing for regular clothes?

Geoffrey beene and van heusan fitted shirts are the only ones that fit me well (I still ahve to ask the tailor to extend the arms 1.5 inches though). I have a 15.5 neck 45 inch chest and a 29 inch waist suffice to say hardly aything fits me properly (plus I have a 34 inseem which makes buying pants a killer) I actually have family abroad so I mail them a shirt and ask them to make me ten copies at the local tailor with a mix of vertical stripes and solids. GB and VH usually dont do fitted in anything else other then a few solids so Im forced to do this. The funny thing is it ends up only costing me 10 bucks a shirt instead of the 50-60 I usually pay.

The reason I shared all that is because I heard there are places online that do that, I just dont know how to search them or where to point you, so keep your eyes open and maybe look around the net.

 

[Murphy Durphy]

Originally posted by: Ausm

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Just shrink them in the dryer.

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Ausm

But shrinking makes EVERYTHING smaller, which I don't want. I just need to get rid of the extra cloth around the back so they fit snug everywhere. On most of my polos if I grab them on the sides and fold them over half an inch everything is nice and snug. But of course I can't walk around holding them to my sides all day.