Originally Posted by
Pickles
What torqued me most about them is that when I showed up with a couple of shirts that had shrunk beyond usability, or the colors had run, they said it was "normal" and nothing they could do about it. Life's too short to deal with such nonsense.
Sounds like the tailors have their own web forums to come up with excuses that they can all use.
A few years ago, I brought back I some French piqué cotton shirts to David Lee (David's Shirts), as the shirts had shrunk to a size smaller than when I'd gotten them a year before.
"The shirts didn't shrink," sez David, "it's just that the fabric became tighter, which is normal."
Who knew that there was a difference between fabric shrinking [bad] and fabric getting tighter [good, normal]?