Is there more than one acceptable men's tailor in Koh Kong Town? If there is only one he will have 100% of market share and so not so competitive as in SHV. Besides I see no advantage to detouring through Kampong Soam as I am not a wet alcoholic with a taste for scags sell-past-date.
Enroute to Thailand with some pre-washed fabric and don't want to wait fpr PNH tailors which seem to be either good (long wait) or bad (long wait).
Fed up of the 'big city'. Can't afford tailoring prices in Pattaya. But more than thaf I prefer the Cambodian, and South Asian system of the tailor actually existing in the shop rather than Pattaya system of sub-contracting work out (creates communication and quality control problems).
half decent tailor in Koh Kong?
The manager of my guesthouse ditected me to the gentleman who apprars to be the only gents' tailir in town.
I will call him Mr. One-leg for readons that will become obvious if you visit him at his shop near the old central market.
However he, having the best reputation ln town, is too busy to copy two sports shirts in 48 hours.
Instead, I asked at multiple interior seamstress and tailor stalls until I found sonebody not busy.
Maybe it'll turn out low-grade workmanship, but the kid still wet behind the ears appears to be men's wear specialist.
30K.
I will call him Mr. One-leg for readons that will become obvious if you visit him at his shop near the old central market.
However he, having the best reputation ln town, is too busy to copy two sports shirts in 48 hours.
Instead, I asked at multiple interior seamstress and tailor stalls until I found sonebody not busy.
Maybe it'll turn out low-grade workmanship, but the kid still wet behind the ears appears to be men's wear specialist.
30K.
Mr. Kim Leang does not know his trade. I suspect he is not even an apprentice.
In the future I will throw the fabric away rather than waste my time buying botch jobs from adolescent wanabee tailors in small towns. And ignore these sewing machines surrounded by what appears to be men's fabric.
I thought I made the job simple for him - I handed him a comfortable fitting off-the-rack shirt and said 'copy this'. I left the 'moDEL' w/him. I was tempted to ask for some minor modifications but didn't want to complicate the 22-year-old's (?) project by asking tor anything more than a button on the pocket. That BTW, he neglected to do.
What could go wrong?
Apparently not gaving the talent of precision of even a low-end Saigon tailor or the experience and training of a tailor on Sihanouk (PNH) is what.
He copied the style more or less but was 'creative' with the dimensions.
Among his 16 unforgivable artisan of cloth failures (shape, collar, pocket, length, pattern) here are a few highlights...
1. I reminded him to be certain the predominant stripe was cut from the fabric so as to be vertical. He did it horizontal. Contradicting my simple and obvious instructions.
2. The collar is 40% wider at the point than the model. And over an inch longer.
"I used this standard pattern." he told me, showing me a piece of cardboard.
My brain exploded, thinking, 'But you are a maker of custom men's clothes. I didn't have you take my measurements because this model was good enough. You didn't measure the model but winged it."
It gapes open at the front.
3. The *sportshit* (I will leave the typo) has interfacing, totally unlike the comfortable soft original. He actually made his job more difficult!
4. The stripes of the left and right front panels don't match up on one of the shirts, making me look like a retard.
5. The pocket is so small I can't fit my hand in. Copying the dimensions of the model was too demanding?
6. Doing up either collar buttons doesn't work in under five minutes because he made the hole too small. And one is not centered.
7. The cut is wrong. The fabric doesn't hang right. I didn't ask him to adapt his standard smaller khmer male pattern to suit a westerner, simply to copy the model, which was made for the western market. He ignored that obvious instruction.
So, I paid him and threw both shirts away when I determined both were unsalvagable. Worse than buying second-hand from 'under the umbrella.' I wasted my time shopping in Phsar TTP in Phnom Penh. I wasted the cost of 4.5 meters of seersucker cotton that was difficult to find. I wasted my time preshrinking the fabric. His fee of 30,000 is the least of it.
In the future I will throw the fabric away rather than waste my time buying botch jobs from adolescent wanabee tailors in small towns. And ignore these sewing machines surrounded by what appears to be men's fabric.
I thought I made the job simple for him - I handed him a comfortable fitting off-the-rack shirt and said 'copy this'. I left the 'moDEL' w/him. I was tempted to ask for some minor modifications but didn't want to complicate the 22-year-old's (?) project by asking tor anything more than a button on the pocket. That BTW, he neglected to do.
What could go wrong?
Apparently not gaving the talent of precision of even a low-end Saigon tailor or the experience and training of a tailor on Sihanouk (PNH) is what.
He copied the style more or less but was 'creative' with the dimensions.
Among his 16 unforgivable artisan of cloth failures (shape, collar, pocket, length, pattern) here are a few highlights...
1. I reminded him to be certain the predominant stripe was cut from the fabric so as to be vertical. He did it horizontal. Contradicting my simple and obvious instructions.
2. The collar is 40% wider at the point than the model. And over an inch longer.
"I used this standard pattern." he told me, showing me a piece of cardboard.
My brain exploded, thinking, 'But you are a maker of custom men's clothes. I didn't have you take my measurements because this model was good enough. You didn't measure the model but winged it."
It gapes open at the front.
3. The *sportshit* (I will leave the typo) has interfacing, totally unlike the comfortable soft original. He actually made his job more difficult!
4. The stripes of the left and right front panels don't match up on one of the shirts, making me look like a retard.
5. The pocket is so small I can't fit my hand in. Copying the dimensions of the model was too demanding?
6. Doing up either collar buttons doesn't work in under five minutes because he made the hole too small. And one is not centered.
7. The cut is wrong. The fabric doesn't hang right. I didn't ask him to adapt his standard smaller khmer male pattern to suit a westerner, simply to copy the model, which was made for the western market. He ignored that obvious instruction.
So, I paid him and threw both shirts away when I determined both were unsalvagable. Worse than buying second-hand from 'under the umbrella.' I wasted my time shopping in Phsar TTP in Phnom Penh. I wasted the cost of 4.5 meters of seersucker cotton that was difficult to find. I wasted my time preshrinking the fabric. His fee of 30,000 is the least of it.
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