Suit up

As if the dress drama weren't enough, now we're dealing with suit drama. 

We decided to buy a suit rather than renting one (what a waste), partly because I wanted him in grey (morning wedding, plus grey is one of the wedding colors) and the only rentable grey suits had satin edging on the lapel, which:  no.  Plus this way he'd have another suit to wear.

We bought the only cheap grey suit they had, and when we initially had it measured for alterations, the guy had the HTB put the pants where he would normally wear them.  The HTB wears his pants low--under his belly.  So they measured and decided to take in the waist.  When we came back, though, the waist was smaller (as requested), but the legs were huge, comparatively, and the crotch was low.  They looked like Hammer pants, or clown pants, or something.  And his bottom half is NOT large.  So we had them take up the crotch a bit and the guy told us to come back last Saturday to check the fit, because the tailor would be in that day and we could talk to her about the fit around the legs.

When we went in on Saturday, we discovered that a) the crotch was better, but b) the tailor was NOT in and was not supposed to be.  The salesman did his best to mark the legs to be taken in, and we were told to come back Tuesday.  The guy even agreed to adjust the tailor's hours so she would still be there in the evening when we stopped by.

On Tuesday, the fit around the legs was a bit better, but the pants still poofed out around the pockets . . . sort of a hint of jodhpurs, if you know what I mean.  But the tailor said she couldn't really do much more--she put in a basting stitch to fix them as much as she could, but we were starting to run into the pocket, so we were kind of stuck. 

THEN the sales guy (one we hadn't talked to before) told us that the real problem was that there pants were designed to be worn at the waist, not below the waist, and if worn across his stomach instead of below it, then all the fit problems would have been fixed (which makes sense).  So what SHOULD have happened is that the FIRST sales guy should have TOLD us that and we should have had them fitted for his WAIST instead of below it and maybe gotten stays put in and had him wear suspenders or something.  But we did not KNOW that, so we had them taken in and hemmed as if they were low rise.  Anyway, the tailor is doing what she can and we're to pick them up this weekend.  There will still be a hint of jodhpurs around the hips, but there doesn't seem to be a way around that.  The coat will cover it some, but it's just . . . not ideal.  Sigh.