For someone who lived 20 years in India I hate the locally tailored stuff. In the 80s and early 90s people used to gift 'cut pieces' to family and friends to go to your local tailor for making a shirt.

Horrible: however good the material may be, the measurements and quality of the guys working for the tailor varied wildly. So you would end up with ill fitting shirts of questionable inside material (collars, cuffs etc). Also the cuts/layouts of the shirt was usually from the 70s/80s.

My parents go to a tailor associated with a Raymond's store and give him a eurpoean shirt/trouser to copy and buy the cloth required it. Still they are inferior to a shirt you would buy in europe as the material of the collar gives way with 5-6 washes. Also the mechanical attachment of cloth to inside collar material is done differently in indian tailor shops.

The trouser are also not up to european standards. The inliner and trouserfold are not done the same way.

Its a simple matter of technology moving on and the tailors not keeping pace.