You did what I did, but 30 years ago, hats off. I've had a few suits made by my tailor and some were well crafted, others, well, let's leave it at that. I would

You did what I did, but 30 years ago, hats off. I've had a few suits made by my tailor and some were well crafted, others, well, let's leave it at that. I would say, outside of SE Asia, $1k is the middle ground between too expensive for a made-to-measure suit and too cheap for a bespoke suit. As I see it, it is more fun to have distinctive garments made. I had a shirt made inspired by a shirt I saw Fonda wear in a Western movie, a denim jacket seen in a Paul Newman interview. It was a lot of fun, but dealing with the tailor took some tenacity and a certain unusual desire to wear those clothes.