Tailors are reporting a rush for lighter wool. Offices that ran the air-conditioning hard through summer have not turned the heat up to match the weather, and staff want a jacket they can wear at the desk without sweating through a meeting.
The cloth in demand is a mid-weight weave that older cutters remember and younger customers are meeting for the first time. Two shops have a waiting list for alterations, which is where the money is this month. New suits can wait. A jacket that almost fits cannot.
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A ready-made chain has put a similar weight on the rail and priced it below the tailored version. Independent tailors said they are not trying to win that customer. They are trying to keep the customer who already owns a jacket and wants it to close properly.
The season, they added, is short. If the offices finally switch the heating on, the queue at the alteration desk will vanish in a week.
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