Indochino has added two suits to their constant Essential collection some days ago. These new suits are a The Essential Prince of Wales and the Essential Gray Herringbone suit. Both of them are available as a 2-piece suit or with vest. The two additions certainly make sense, so far there were only solid-colored Essential suits and one always had to wait for new, temporary collections to get something a bit different.
There are also two Tuxedos available, the Midnight Blue Tuxedo and the Essential 3-piece Tuxedo. I'm aware Heikal Gani, Indochino's co-founder and design mastermind told me the designs and shapes haven't changed, but I just can't help feeling the button stance on some new suits is just very high. Combined with the high waist suppression, the jackets tend to flare out around the hips and create a kind of female shape that will not fit most people - it even looks weird on some of the Indochino models, if you ask me.
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| The Essential Prince of Wales 3-piece suit - 449$ |
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| Essential 3-piece Tuxedo - 449$ |
16 comments:
You're not the only one thinking the stance and skirt are much too high. The hip Manhattan tumblr style bloggers love this stuff, but even those guys are not as exaggerated.
Lorenz, James... you´re right. I just received another Indochino-suit (the essential Navy, this time) and it flares out around the hips. I´m not sure, if this is a problem of the high button stance and the small waist or if I should just adjust the hip-measurements of the jacket. I´m using exactly the same measurements for the hips of the trousers and the jacket - the trousers fit perfect so far. Thats why I´m thinking about reducing the hip-measurements of the jackets...
Thanks for your opinion on this Andreas! I wonder how long it takes them to introduce the digital cutting to all customers. That should make sure the fit is always the same, I hope! But of course, that doesn't take changes to the silhouette or button stance in account, I fear.
This may not be the best place to post this question... but... whats the best method to care for custom indochino shirts? Dry cleaning? will they hold up to washing? Fade?
Yeah, quite a problem. I am not sure either, I had a suit with the same problem! Ended up just asking for less waist suppression and lower button stance. Didn't want to reduce the hip measurements, as they were already lower than the actual value I measured!
I bring them to the dry cleaner regularly. No fading or fabric problems so far! According to Indochino, you can also machine wash them with 40°C and they should be fine. Will probably shrink a bit on the first wash imho.
Here are the official instructions from their twitter account! https://twitter.com/indochino/status/159383670581506048
The Essential Prince of Wales 3-piece and 2-piece suit colors look pretty different on their site even though the swatch photo is the same. Lighting?
Hmmm, I´m quite satisfied with the actual waist suppression, in view of the fact that my chest is quite big and my waist rather small. How did the lower button stance impact the cut of the jacket? Did it solve the problem?
The way it influenced it was basically that the part where the jacket was slimmest (around the top button) moved down and thus the suit draped nicer and didn't give me that weird shape. However, I'm not sure it would have the same result for you. You could perhaps post some pics or go to a local tailor and ask for his opinion? Might even be possible to have it fixed instead of going for a remake!
yes, seems to be. it's surely the same fabric!
I feel like alot of people have problems with the waist suppression and the high button placement. I haven't purchased anything from Indochino yet, but am about to buy a tuxedo. Should I just ask them for a lower button and less waist suppression for my first order? Or should I just let them do it whatever, and send it to a tailor when it arrives?
Yeah, I have heard of lots of problem with it too. However, if it is your first suit I'd just go for the normal route. They usually leave enough fabric so a tailor can let out the jacket on the side and fix it. Button stance can't really be changed of course, but it officially they say it has not been set higher anyway and it is just that it looks like that on some models, due to their body.
I compared my new Navy-suit with my older Essentail-gray-suit. The button stance is exactly the same, but the Navy-suit flares out at the hips a bit (i reduced the waist-measurement, when I ordered the Navy-suit, the hip-measurement stayed the same). As a result, i will reduce the hip-measuremt on my next order... I think they changed some things in the way they tailor the suits. Older customers will remember, that there were much more options to choose in the past years (like the high armholes etc).
I think there are no general solutions to fit problems anyway, everyone has to find his own fit. About the options, higher armholes became standard, so did the natural shoulders option (well, actually it is no called slightly padded).
How does Indochine sui
s generally fit on husky men?, any experiences?
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