Recommendations for tailors in Bangkok?

[werner]

During the past year or so, I have been watching my diet and working out at a gym with a hot coach.

As a result, I have lost about 30 kilos, and my old body is in great shape.

I need some more new clothes. Since I will be visiting Bangkok next week, I might as well have them made there.

Can anyone recommend a great tailor in the Suriwong/Silom area?

Years ago, I had a lot of clothing made at Jackie's Tailor Shop (name?] which was run by an Indian family and was near Soi Twilight.
That shop has long closed....

[FarangRuMak]

I can't comment on the Bangkok Tailor Shops run by the Indians but the fashion shops in Pattaya all use the same Thai tailors as far as I can see.
Many of these small workshops are clustered in the narrow sois behind Tuk Com.
Thus there can't be much difference in quality between the various high street outlets.
I have one friend who buys quite a lot of stuff directly from the 'sweatshops'.

[scottish-guy]

They may well all use the same tailors (debatable) but they certainly vary in making tbe measurements !!

I have had suits which were as tight as strait-jackets (apposite some may say) and others which were like a tent.

[Magnum]

Rajawongse Clothier near Nana Station is just excellent. I have many suits and a lot of shirts and I love them all. I wouldn't buy any regular suits (like Boss, Joop, ...) again. One suit is now around 14.000 Baht. Of course I would pay more for it, the quality and style are just fantastic.

[FarangRuMak]

They may well all use the same tailors (debatable) but they certainly vary in making tbe measurements !!

I have had suits which were as tight as strait-jackets (apposite some may say) and others which were like a tent.
I agree about the measurements; I was given a lovely suit except he ignored my explanation that my abdomen rises and falls with the beer-drinking seasons.
Right now it's a bit like a strait jacket so it doesn't get out a lot.
The post-christmas/new year diet will give it a short time in the sun.
I'm convinced that the high st shops use the same tailors.
A friend went to a few and told them he would buy if they could show him 1 sewing machine-not one could.
Of course they might supply different quality fabrics.

[frequent]

I agree about the measurements; I was given a lovely suit except he ignored my explanation that my abdomen rises and falls with the beer-drinking seasons.Did he ask about which side you dress? https://www.realmenrealstyle.com/dress-left-right/

[FarangRuMak]

Rajawongse Clothier near Nana Station is just excellent. I have many suits and a lot of shirts and I love them all. I wouldn't buy any regular suits (like Boss, Joop, ...) again. One suit is now around 14.000 Baht. Of course I would pay more for it, the quality and style are just fantastic.
Thank's for the tip.
As with the boys a report based on personal experience is best.
By mistakes we learn but you can't beat learning by other people's mistakes.

[ggobob]

I've used Excelsior Tailors several times over the past few years - located in the lobby area of the Siam Heritage Hotel on Surawong. I've had shirts and trousers made there as well as a couple of sport jackets and a suit on this last trip. Last year, I mentioned I'd like to get some corduroy trousers made. They are not not always available where I live and if found they never fit. Excelsior found the material in several colors and made up three pairs for less than one badly fitting one would be at home.

Caution based on experience. Make sure you allow time for at least one fitting and think about the style you want - fitting gives a chacge to see if room is available for belly amplification, etc. Don't rush the fitting, if it's a shirt move your arms around, button the collar, etc; if it's a jacket, check how it fits around the neck, do the shoulders square?, etc.

Think about what style you like, bring a photo from a magazine if you see something you like. Tailors in Bangkok are copyists not artists.

[FarangRuMak]

Most of the 'artists' I see around Pattaya are the same....
....very strong in the copy line.
Also very formulaic if that's a word and if it isn't you know what I mean.
The artist in the coffee shop/bar/art shop in Jomtien Complex has a few nice originals on show I have to say.

[lukylok]

Don't compare apples and pears !

This maybe old but is still true


https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forums/asia-thailand/thailand/read-this-tailoring-in-thailand

Some facts : you need 3 m cloth to make a suit, and good cloth comes from Italy, UK, and maybe Japan. And it's expensive.
A hand made jacket requires 24 hours work (London tailors log book). Making a pattern takes 2-3 hours ....

The real cutter needs to see you. Measurement is not enough to know the shape of the body. Does he make a pattern for you or merely adapt a ready made.
Instead of asking to see a machine, ask to see the cutter and his cutting table. Not the salesman who makes a lot of noise around you.

Nowadays the modern machines make a better job than most of the "tailors".
But they are frightfully expensive, and you must make a lot of suits to amortize them.

Good luck !

[FarangRuMak]

If you wish to see his machine and cutting table walk through the sois on the left behind Tuek Com.
When it's hot you can see a lot of shirtless male tailors glistening with sweat and hard at it.

[FarangRuMak]

Don't compare apples and pears !

This maybe old but is still true


https://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/forums/asia-thailand/thailand/read-this-tailoring-in-thailand

Some facts : you need 3 m cloth to make a suit, and good cloth comes from Italy, UK, and maybe Japan. And it's expensive.
A hand made jacket requires 24 hours work (London tailors log book). Making a pattern takes 2-3 hours ....

The real cutter needs to see you. Measurement is not enough to know the shape of the body. Does he make a pattern for you or merely adapt a ready made.
Instead of asking to see a machine, ask to see the cutter and his cutting table. Not the salesman who makes a lot of noise around you.

Nowadays the modern machines make a better job than most of the "tailors".
But they are frightfully expensive, and you must make a lot of suits to amortize them.

Good luck !

Haven't come across the word 'amortize'.
Meaning/etymology please.
Thanks.

[frequent]

Haven't come across the word 'amortize'.
Meaning/etymology please.
Thanks.
Have you come across the Internet yet?

[scottish-guy]

Have you come across the Internet yet?

Once, in a moment of uncontrollable excitement, he came across the keyboard

:D

[FarangRuMak]

Have you come across the Internet yet?

Well, obviously not.

[frequent]

Well, obviously not.When you do you'll find there's a nifty little invention called a "Search tool" (No, I'm not trying to emulate an a447 post). The most popular one is called "Google". If you use Google you can find out what any word means, not just "amortize"

[FarangRuMak]

Thanks. I'll check it out.
I'd love to use this internet thing to post here but I haven't figured out how yet.

[scottish-guy]

Back on track - I took a look at the label on my best fitting Thai suit and it was from Yes Boss across the main road from BT

[Jellybean]

I have resurrected this topic from only two years ago and, as far as I can see, there are two good recommendations for a tailor in Bangkok, one from Magnum and one from ggobob.

Last year, I was invited to attend a wedding in June 2020. Despite my best efforts to avoid having to attend, I’m afraid they came to nought after the mother of the bride-to-be paid me an unannounced visit and kind of made me an offer I couldn’t refuse! [Gulp!] So, like it or lump it, I’m going! Quite clearly I cannot turn up in jeans and a T-shirt, oh, no, that wouldn’t do at all, so a new suit is required.

Unfortunately, the suits I own and used to wear when I was last in gainful employment no longer fit me. Yet, a forlorn hope that one day I may well fit back into them prevents me from disposing of them. Sadly, age, too much of a sedentary lifestyle, perhaps too many visits to Starbucks and not nearly enough exercise have all taken their toll on my ever expanding waistline.

In an effort to turn back the weight gain I have been attending the gym at my Bangkok condo six days a week for the last month. And while in Pattaya last week I also started swimming again in addition to going to jetts 24 hour fitness, a gym in which my hotel has an arrangement for their guests. But this weight loss malarkey is a slow business! But even a small reduction in my waistline would be welcome so I shall wait a few more weeks and see if all this effort has produced any positive results.

When I lived in Hua Hin, I bought several beautifully made-to-measure short-sleeve shirts and one suit, which were all very satisfactory. And, if I'm remembering correctly, not too expensive – most certainly we are not talking Savile Row prices! I have however never visited a tailor here in Bangkok, although when in the Sukhumvit/ Nana area, I have sometimes been accosted on the pavement (sidewalk) and asked to step in and feel the quality of their merchandise. ;)

I wondered if anyone has any recent personal experience of using a tailor in Bangkok to purchase a made-to-measure, good quality, but not too expensive, suit and is able to recommend such an establishment to me. In the absence of any up to date advice, I’ll probably pop across to Nana and Surawong and see if both businesses recommended by Magnum and ggobob are still trading and report back on my findings.


Rajawongse Clothier near Nana Station is just excellent. I have many suits and a lot of shirts and I love them all. I wouldn't buy any regular suits (like Boss, Joop, ...) again. One suit is now around 14.000 Baht. Of course I would pay more for it, the quality and style are just fantastic.


I've used Excelsior Tailors several times over the past few years - located in the lobby area of the Siam Heritage Hotel on Surawong. I've had shirts and trousers made there as well as a couple of sport jackets and a suit on this last trip. Last year, I mentioned I'd like to get some corduroy trousers made. They are not not always available where I live and if found they never fit. Excelsior found the material in several colors and made up three pairs for less than one badly fitting one would be at home.

Caution based on experience. Make sure you allow time for at least one fitting and think about the style you want - fitting gives a chacge to see if room is available for belly amplification, etc. Don't rush the fitting, if it's a shirt move your arms around, button the collar, etc; if it's a jacket, check how it fits around the neck, do the shoulders square?, etc.

Think about what style you like, bring a photo from a magazine if you see something you like. Tailors in Bangkok are copyists not artists.

[dinagam]

Unfortunately, the suits I own and used to wear when I was last in gainful employment no longer fit me. Yet, a forlorn hope that one day I may well fit back into them prevents me from disposing of them. Sadly, age, too much of a sedentary lifestyle, perhaps too many visits to Starbucks and not nearly enough exercise have all taken their toll on my ever expanding waistline.

In an effort to turn back the weight gain I have been attending the gym at my Bangkok condo six days a week for the last month. And while in Pattaya last week I also started swimming again in addition to going to jetts 24 hour fitness, a gym in which my hotel has an arrangement for their guests. But this weight loss malarkey is a slow business! But even a small reduction in my waistline would be welcome so I shall wait a few more weeks and see if all this effort has produced any positive results.

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Before you step into any tailor to have a good feel of their merchandise and appraisal of their workmen, I would humbly suggest to give the intermittent fasting regime a serious try. Eat and drink whatever you want between 9am and 6pm, refrain from adding additional calories after your last meal around 6pm so as to have about 14 hours or more of abstinence before your next breakfast. Give it a try for 30 consecutive days , and you'll begin to notice that all those 'old' clothes will fit your new figure rather nicely. Don't worry about loss of libido. Afternoon sex will never be the same again. Good luck.

[sglad]

I have however never visited a tailor here in Bangkok, although when in the Sukhumvit/ Nana area, I have sometimes been accosted on the pavement (sidewalk) and asked to step in and feel the quality of their merchandise.

Did he let you peek under his turban?

Jellybean, as an esteemed moderator of this exalted forum, no less than the tailors who made the emperor's new clothes would be fit to dress you. Your colleague from Down Under has been going to them for years, judging from his moderating decisions.

[Jellybean]

This afternoon I visited Nana, no not one of my grandmothers, they're both long gone! LOL! I speak of an area of Bangkok.

I got off at BTS Nana, on the Sukhumvit line. Not knowing exactly where the tailor shop, Rajawongse, was located, all I knew was that it is close to the sky train station. I exited on the side I have got off on many occasions to go to either Bumrungrad International Hospital or to Heroes Massage Spa. But as it turned out, it was the wrong side of the road, so I ended up having to cross a perilously busy Sukhumvit Road.

Nana, Exit 2 is the correct exit and Rajawongse Clothiers can be found next to Landmark Plaza at 130 Sukhumvit Road.

The price of a made-to-measure suit has increased to B16,000 (or £393.26) but still seems exceptionally good value for money. If however I was still in employment, I'd probably think about getting two suits at that price. But the problem is, I rarely wear suits since I retired. The last time I needed a suit was about three years ago at the funeral of an aunt.

Now I'm not so sure it would be cost effective to buy a made-to-measure suit when I could buy an off-the-peg suit back in the UK for the equivalent of B5,600 and use the savings to offset the cost of a much needed new mobile phone.

I was told it takes only four to five days to make up a new suit. So I've still got a few weeks to consider the matter. Incidentally, the tailors are closed from April 5 to April 20 for Songkran.

And finally, just in case anyone is wondering why the interior of the shop has so many police and customs officers cap and uniform badges and insignia, they were, apparently, given to the owners by their grateful customers many of whom are involved in law enforcement agencies across the world.

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[dinagam]

Is that a flasher on the stairs?

[petr55]

I use a tailor in Pattaya that I liked a lot. I have been going to them for 20+ years.
It is Diane Tailor on S Pattay Beach road.
Reasonable prices.

His FB page is :
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014736948060