The Affordable Elegance of Hong Kong Tailors

In many major financial districts and metropolitan cities around the world, men wear fitted suits. Some do so by personal preference, while others do so because they have no other say on the matter.

But whatever the case, this means that many men have no choice but to be in the constant lookout for great tailors who can deliver quality custom tailoring clothes and other services.

And Hong Kong, being a city at a unique position between the Western and Eastern cultures is leading the way in meeting and supplying that rising demand all over the world.

Nowadays, there are Hong Kong tailors that number by the hundreds, if not thousands, in this metropolitan Chinese territory. Obviously, this was brought about by the increasing need of men to find not only a good quality and a fit of a suit but also that which may not strain the pockets too much.

These are, perhaps, the driving forces that have made Hong Kong tailors quite popular around the world. It has been estimated that there are more or less 42 million tourists that pass through this city annually. And it cannot be denied that aside from the usual sightseeing attractions and numerous business opportunities that this metropolitan Chinese city has to offer, tailoring tourism likewise plays a big part on the city’s allure.

Hong Kong tailors have built up a reputation for themselves for what might be called as affordable elegance. The phrase may sound incongruent at first encounter. After all, elegance has always been expected and associated with extravagance and luxury.

Affordable is just not usually said at the same breath as elegance.

On the other hand, that is what these ingenuous Hong Kong tailors have amazingly accomplished with their impeccably made custom suits and other men’s clothing apparels.

And despite what skeptics may say, tailoring tourism, which is already a billion dollar business in this city, will not have continued to thrive and flourish if it were just riding solely on its being cheap or affordable. Nonetheless, there is some truth to it that the cost of fitted suits and shirts here (even at many well established tailoring houses in the city) is only about a quarter of the price in other leading cities in the world, including London and New York.

It is undeniable though that many tourists continue to patronize Hong Kong tailors because of their excellent craftsmanship and skillful handiwork. Being affordable is just a bonus.

In other words, affordable elegance is possible.