Suits made in Hong Kong

Has anyone gone to see Mr Ashda the tailor from Hong Kong who is in the Conrad Hotel for a few days. Well we have just come back. The offer in the Irish Times was for a suit, blazer, trousers and 2 silk ties for €320 excluding vat. After measuring my husband and taking his photo he quoted €890 and when asked about the special deal he said they had run out of material and only the more expensive option was left.

I got a suit made in Thailand when I was there - kashmir and silk, for £85stg. You can order these suits online, by phone or by fax. So the price you are being quoted seems very high to me.

Site

Could you post the site address please.

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I don't have the address on me here. The one I used was Tommy Fashions in the Pomprab District. I will look for the address at home. It has been a few years since I ordered there, but they will make any suit to whatever design you chose. I have had no probelm with my orders there.

"The offer in the Irish Times was for a suit, blazer, trousers and 2 silk ties for €320 excluding vat"

Personally I'd steer clear of this. €320 is ridiculously cheap for what he's offering. IMO, you'd be looking at very shoddy material indeed which would look like a rag after a few wears.

Saw all that rubbish they churn out in Thailand too...nearly getting dragged into shops as you walk down the street Of course, it depends on what you want the suit for and how long you intend to get out of the suit etc etc...

I got a suit in Bangkok when I was there years ago. It was wearing well until I out grew it :\

Nogser

"I got a suit in Bangkok when I was there years ago. It was wearing well until I out grew it"

I guess there would be some good tailors over there alright. How much did you pay for it nogser?

david bowie

I think this guy in hong kong made a suit for david bowie once.

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I think this guy in hong kong made a suit for david bowie once.

Not this one by any chance?



Might raise a few eyebrows at the board meetings! :eek

I had many suits over the past 20 years made for me in Bangkok. They were excellent,and the price was right. how ever there has been a change there, I recently sent a friend there and they were very badly treated, Moral is avoid Bangkok International Tailors, Soi 7 Sukumvit Rd. but there is good value to be had if you get the tailor right.

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Anybody been to Bangkok recently and had a suit made, any recommendations for places to go. From what i hear its a bit hit and miss re the quality of suit you get?

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Mourinho said:

Anybody been to Bangkok recently and had a suit made, any recommendations for places to go. From what i hear its a bit hit and miss re the quality of suit you get?

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I had some suits made in Thailand before - quality was terrible.

If you have had a recommendation of a good tailor, you can get good value, but you can just as easily get cr@p quality. Also, make sure you get fitted for the suit on DAY 1 of your holiday so that you get it in time to try it on and wear it around your apartment / hotel etc. There is no point in picking it up the day before you leave as you will not have time to see if it is any good and look for your money back or whatever.

Thats the plan alright, get it fitted early on and have time to make adjustments to the fitting.

Only thing left to do is find someone who can recommended somewhere - they seem to be fairly thin on the ground...

I'm heading to Thailand (bangkok) at the end of the month and want to get a few suits made, how do I pick a good one out of the hundreds there?

I hear when you go there everyone is essentially trying to rip you off, they all get kick backs from their friends and you cannot relaly get honest advise from anyone - scary!

Hi Colly,

My girlfriend and I had suits made in Bangkok twelve months ago and they are still in perfect condition. We were fitted on day 1, went back to try them on on day 2 and they were waiting for us on our arrival back home (shipping not included). I would highly recommend them:

Chao Phraya Suit
716 Krungkasem Road
Bangkok.

I also found this review:

Chao Prhra ya Suits Exclusive Taylor: Our favorite Taylor by FAR!
Written by Homanded on March 7, 2006.

We had suits and several clothing articles made throughout Asia; including China, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Phuket and Chiang Mai. By far, the best quality was in Bangkok's "Chao phra ya Suit" tailors. Their address is: 712-714-716 Krungkasem Road. Tel: (662) 629-9994, 282-1408. Fax: (662) 282-7355. They had an incredible amount of textiles to choose from, were by far the most proffessional and, even delivered to our hotel for us. We recomend at least 2-3 days, although yes, they CAN have it ready for you in just 24 hours (sometimes, even less). You want to allow one day for a second "fit" and any necessary alterations. Speciafy things such as 1 or 2 pockets, special requests, etc.

Incredible assortment of Cashmere and Cashmere blends. Great silks and textiles. Look through their various magazines, will copy a suit to a tee.

We paid about $140.00USD for Cashmere, Suit, 2 pants, 3 Silk Shirts and a Silk Tie. This was NOT the cheapest we'd been offered elsewhere but trust us, was by far our favorite taylor. .

I had suits made both in Thailand and Hong Kong and got great deals in both places. I'll try and find the name of the tailor we used in Bangkok and i'll post it later. The way we went about choosing him was to walk down the KohSan road and have a look at the photos in the window of their previous work. Once we picked a tailor we haggled quite a bit re: the material and price - I got two suits and two shirts for about Euro 70 (it was three years ago mind you). We went for our initial fittings over the course of a day, went off to Chiang Mai for a week and then came back for two more fittings - it meant the end result was perfect.

All the tailors have deals posted outside their shops. Similar to what was posted above, its usually something like 2 suits, few shirts maybe extra jacket, at a very low price. When they get you into the shop though, they tell you that offer is not very good quality material, and they start pulling out all the good cashmere fabrics. Be warned, they are very good salespeople, giving you drinks etc. However, some of them are actually very good tailors, and if you haggle, you can get good quality fabrics and great tailoring for a fraction of the price you get back here. I got two suits and three shirts(two silk, one cotton) for approx 250 euro in Ko Samiu Beach Tailors on the island of Koh Samui. Measurement first, followed by two further fittings, where they had no problems making any alterations. They delivered the suits in suit bags to our hotel the day before we flew home so we could try the finished product before we left. Quality was excellent, finishing was to a very high standard. This was approx 4 years ago. Mr Geri got some made aswell, and still wears them (only ever to weddings etc) and they're still perfect.
You are probably best to go on recommendatons from other people, and not on the prices displayed at the door.

I got a shirt made by this guy. It wears well. http://www.samstailor.com/
He comes to London regularly. Not sure if he has made it to Dublin.

i know its old, but i get my clothes from www.crowntailor.com. And this guy comes to visit around europe often too. So can always ask him to drop in I guess.
p.s. i thought i wrote up on this earlier in the day, but it never seemed to appear..odd

Rainbows,

Going to Hong Kong soon, was wondering how i find your contact there for suits?