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Originally Posted by DionTheDman
Late to the party, but I asked my tailor once about Indochino suits. For what it's worth, he told me he's deconstructed a handful, and they were terrible quality. They might look decent, but are garbage quality.
He could have been saying that just to devalue a competitor to his business, but it fits as well with what I've heard about inconsistent sizing, variable quality of materials, etc.
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I've chatted with a tailor I know and she says that Indochino is a lower end option for a custom suit. Her comment as a tailor was basically, "Ignoring quality for a moment, a bespoke (tailored) suit will almost always look better than an off the rack option which has not been tailored."
Indochino has options for formal and casual in the same way there are H&M options vs Calvin Klein options. I've spent time looking at Indochino options in the past and IMO I personally don't prefer to choose them because I feel like I can get better value elsewhere. Of the wares I am looking at and at the price point they are offering their wares, I'd rather wait for great deals on branded suits and bring them to my tailor to work on. For slightly more, I get a better quality suit with brand recognition. I probably only paid about 20-30% more for Zegna and Hugo Boss to an Indochino equivalent offer I think I have a Calvin Klein option on hand that's equal pricing to Indochino as well as an Asia option which looks great and cheaper than Indochino. But those types of deals aren't always available.
I don't disagree with the comment that perhaps Indochino are of "poor quality", but if you need to deconstruct the suit to determine this, is it really a big deal?
I personally don't see a reason to tell people to avoid Indochino even though I don't have any current or future plans to get a suit from them.