Weddingbee Blog

My grand-master-plan before last Thanksgiving was to get pictures of Mr. Sewing and our brothers trying on suits in Monterey (so I could post some awesome pictures).

Well, that didn’t happen, for two reasons. First, apparently most shops don’t let you take pictures.

Huh?

I guess it’s similar to how some bridal shops won’t let you take pictures in the designer dresses, but Macy’s said no pictures. I didn’t bother trying at Men’s Wearhouse, for the second reason.

Nothing fits my fiance.

Macy’s took one look at him and said, “Nope, not going to happen.”

Men’s Wearhouse put three different jackets on him before coming up with some elaborate tailoring scheme I’m convinced would not be worth the effort. Banana Republic had nothing smaller than a 32 waist (we need a 27).

His chest is too flat (can I say that about a guy?), so he couldn’t “fill out” any of the jackets. His arms are also too short, but that (I’m told) is an easy tailor fix.

So I tread lightly across poor Mr. Sew’s masculine pride and asked the salesman, “Do you think I could try a children’s suit?”

Luckily for his pride (and only his pride), his shoulders happen to be normal-man size, so a boy’s size probably wouldn’t work.

And since all three guys want to match, we ended up not getting anything for Mr. Sew’s brother or Sewing-brother, either.

So, what do we do now?

The salesman at Macy’s suggested Mr. Sewing try the Nordstrom’s in San Jose. We both suppressed an inner snark-laugh at this, but it makes sense despite the stereotyping. Of course you’d send the small Asian man to an area with plenty of other small Asians.

So the new grand-master-plan is this: Mr. Sew and I go to Nordy’s in San Jose, and after we find something that will fit him, we’ll take down the “part number” of the suit, and have Mr. Sew’s brother try on the right style at Nordy’s in LA. Sewing-brother will just have to spare a weekend to come up to San Jose himself, since I don’t think they have a Nordy’s in San Luis Obispo. I wonder how hard it will be to fit my 6’3″ bean-pole of a brother? Hopefully easier than my 5’2″ fiance. Mr. Sew’s brother is the only normal sized guy around, it seems.

Sewing-brother and Mr. Sewing… two extremes!

And if, for some unforeseeable reason it doesn’t work out at Nordy’s - we’re going to the Chinese Bridal shop in downtown San Mateo, to have something custom made.

Any other options you can think of? How are you getting your men dressed? Do you have any difficult sizes to accommodate?