outsource my pants.

July 26, 2011 12:34 PM

the right trousers. I've heard that it's possible to get exact duplicates of items of clothing from Indian sources, and would like to know if anyone has any experience of thus or can recommend anyone. I have two pairs of trousers that I love, fairly distinctive, that I wish I could get duplicates made of. if I can just post them to someone and get copies back by return that would be awesome.
posted by spyke23 to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (7 answers total)

google tailor made clothes by mail order.

many links.

here is one:

http://singapore.angloinfo.com/af/743/singapore-tailors-and-custom-made-clothes.html
posted by JayRwv at 12:54 PM on July 26, 2011 [1 favorite]

I can't tell where you are located in your profile, but surely there are talented tailors in your neck of the woods that would do the same great job as someone in a third-world country. At least you could personally meet the tailor and oversee for yourself the progress of the job, feel the materials being used, etc. By the time you add in postage costs to another country, it might only be slightly more expensive than using a third-world source, but you'd have much more control.
posted by HeyAllie at 1:14 PM on July 26, 2011

Is there any reason why you can't get a local tailor to do this for you in your own home town? If you're in or near a big city, you could probably even find fashion or tailoring students to do it for an economical price.
posted by Kololo at 1:15 PM on July 26, 2011

Response by poster: based in the uk. your suggestions are valid, but tailoring of any sort tends to be extortionate here. the presumption would be that I could get more than one copy done for a better price. also these are not suit trousers, they are casual trousers of sorts.
posted by spyke23 at 1:54 PM on July 26, 2011

Best answer: I have no experience at all with makeyourownjeans.com but they do offer suit cloning and jeans cloning so they might be what you're looking for.

(And if you use them, please let me know how it goes. )
posted by jason's_planet at 2:18 PM on July 26, 2011

I know there is good in buying local, but all the tailors I've asked wanted $250 at the bare minimum to manufacture pants (This was Seattle, haven't priced it in NYC). Unless he's cloning $400 pants, it makes sense to look abroad.

I'll be watching this thread closely.
posted by reeddavid at 2:40 PM on July 26, 2011

Modern Tailor. You can send them trousers, but I would just carefully measure your existing trousers and then use the "exact measurements" option. Fabric choices are a bit limited, but the price is fair for the quality.
posted by 2ghouls at 3:24 PM on July 26, 2011 [1 favorite]