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Autosweep
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Looking for reccomendations of a good tailor around the Suk area. Need shirts, pants, no suits. What about the shop beside Majestic suites? The guy is always standing outside trying to hustle me in, anyone try him?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 2:42 pm on July 23, 2005
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koolbreez
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I use the Taj Mahal tailor on soi NANA (4), just past NANA plaza for my slacks.
I look at the fabrics of all the tailors up, and down Suk for my shirts. If I find a fabric I like, then I have a shirt, or 2 made by that tailor.
For anything else you want to know, use the search engine. There is a pretty lengthy thread on this subject.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 7:52 pm on July 23, 2005
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Evil Penivel
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Check the thread below called "Tailor Report" for a very thorough discussion of this question http://bkkx.com/cgi-bin/forum/topic.cgi?forum=16&topic=192&start=0
I agree that Narin Couture on Suk Road between Soi 8 and 10 is probably the best in Bangkok, but his stuff isn't cheap. The shop on the lower level of the Landmark Hotel does good work as well at a lower price.
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:44 pm on July 23, 2005
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sanook269
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Right on the curve of the corner of Soi 3 and Sukhumvit Road is Gulati Fashions. Highly recommended. Sam or Jesse can assist you.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 10:24 pm on July 23, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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Taj Mahal clothiers on Nana, next to NEP.
Friendly folks, good product, and I give them repeat business.
They have good fabrics, european and GB sourced - shirts are 1,000 to 1,200 Baht, pants are 1,200 Baht. I usually pick up a dozen shirts and he throws in 2 additional shirts at that rate.
I'm getting more when I get back.
http://www.tajmahalclothiers.com/
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 11:41 pm on July 23, 2005
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magnum
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Resident here for the last 5 years, I've shopped about and now have all my tailoring done at Rajawongse Tailors - 02.255.3714, on Sukhumvit between Landmark and Nana.
Cheaper tailors abound, but better value might be difficult to find.
You need only to walk through the front door and go to the back of the shop to view the client list. Pictures of Jesse and Victor [father & son owners] with Clinton, Bush I, Bush II, Colin Powell, and a host of international luminaries. Impressive clientele.
All British and Italian fabrics.
I pay US$250 for suits, which a tailor in the States estimated would cost US$800 if purchased in the States. I think they did me a jacket for US$150. I think shirts are US$18-20 +/-. With a suit, they generally throw in a few ties, or a shirt.
These guys are not hawkers - I have often returned at a later time because they are so crowded, so they need not hustle anyone off the pavement.
Raja's, around the corner on Nana, is also quite good [similar price and quality], but I stay with these guys because they just crack me up. Stop by and have a complimentary cold Heinekin, even while just window shopping.
Not insistent at all, but gently persuasive, very professional rag merchants. They seem to take the attitude that they might not sell you today, but that they will eventually win you over.
Incidentally, both of these guys have photographic memories and recall everyone's name whoever patronized Raja. Worth a stop-see.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:10 am on July 24, 2005
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Skip
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I'll second Magnum on all counts. Their tailoring is really top-notch. And their memories are a marketing ploy in and of itself- whomever walks through the door is known on and greeted on a first name basis.
i've been collecting quite a nice collection of shirts there for a couple of months now. Exceptional attention is paid to the details- seams are beautiful, buttons tight, collars stiff, cut is 'just' how you requested it (mods too).
The only thing rubbing me wrong these days is the clientele: Be warned, the place positively reeks of Bush apologists. In fact, it's tangible, and dates as far back as their association with the Vietnam era U-Tapoa base in Udorn Thani. I might be American but, the militarist jingoism prancing in and out of there is a might too thick for my tastes. Imagine if you will a cohort of Carl Rove clones huddling on Sukhumvit and you'll get the picture.
Bizarre? Yes, to the extreme, but it is there, in the flesh day in and day out. Now you know... brace yourselves accordingly...
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 10:27 am on July 24, 2005
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Autosweep
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Thanks guys, great info. So, about how long after I get fitted and choose material, before shirts and slacks are ready to go?
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Posted on: 11:54 am on July 24, 2005
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Evil Penivel
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Depends if you need to go for fittings. For a suit, probably need three to five fittings over a five-day period. But just for shirts and slacks, probably 24 to 48 hrs at most.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 1:05 pm on July 24, 2005
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magnum
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Autosweep - my experience on fittings is never more than 3 fittings. Suggest you make tailor your first stop on your first morning in BKK. They can finish in 3 days, but like to have 4 or 5, and are generally pretty spot on after 2 fittings only. They will mail the finished suit to you, if you simply cannot wait for the final adjustments.
And hey -- do not let Evil Penivel frighten you away. These guys are unarmed, and they have cut suits for intern-porking, Clintonian neo-socialist Klingons as well [umm... sorry].
"Make suits, not war."
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:20 pm on July 24, 2005
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