The Suit, Proclaimed Dead, Is Alive and Well For Top Tailors
Those at the top of the made-to-measure market are finding creative ways to thrive.
Jake Mueser takes a client’s measurements in his Manhattan shop.
Source: Chase Winfrey
The onset of a global pandemic has hastened the most dire predictions for the suit. After all, the power brokers and their power suits can no longer power-lunch. Instead, they’re working from home in Greenwich, Conn., the Hamptons, or wherever they’ve moored their yacht. Even among nonexecutives, the tailored suit’s currency as job interview or wedding day requirement has disappeared, seemingly overnight.
Plus, a suit requires expertise to make—and Italy, where more sartorial knowledge exists than anywhere else, was forced to shutter some of its finest clothing factories and ateliers early in the outbreak.