How to Tailor Suits After Losing a Bunch of Weight
Tailoring your clothing is an important part of building a professional wardrobe -- especially if you have expensive items you don't want to get rid of after losing a bunch of weight. When it comes to suits, most alterations should be made by a professional tailor to ensure accuracy -- but there are a few you can do yourself for the tailor. If you have lost more than 35 lbs., however, tailoring a suit that fit you previously is probably not a good idea. In this case the sizes are so vastly different that the lines won't match up properly and the tailoring could be sloppy.
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Ask a friend to help you take your new body measurements. Measure and record the numbers for your neck, chest, shoulder width, biceps, wrists, waist, hips, thighs, calves and any other areas that have gotten smaller due to weight loss. Even if you can't perform the alterations yourself, this information could save you time depending on your availability to work with a tailor.
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Do what alterations you can at home. Generally, hemming pants is easy, but when weight loss is involved, a tailor often has to take the seams of the suit apart and put them back together. When done at home by an untrained professional, this can cause severe damage to your garments.
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Try on the suit for a tailor and talk to them about what you want to look like in your suit. Do this in front of the mirror as the tailor pins the suit where the seams need to be taken in and comment when you want something wider, thinner, longer or shorter. While the tailor will make professional suggestions, be sure to communicate your preferences and level of comfortability with the fit.
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Inspect the pinned suit from all sides and make sure it is the size you want before leaving the suit with the tailor. In most cases the tailor will remove a seam and resew it. In the case of jackets, these seams often have to be moved or repositioned for a professional finish.
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