Walking around Bangkok "Want suit sir?" said an Indian man for the 15th time in an hour Sat in bar down soi 22 and getting drunk "Rolex?" said an Indian man quietly for the 8th time in an hour.
My experiences with Raja Taylor, March to April 2018: When I first time entered the shop, some customers were there. I waited at the door until finally a lady said hello and asked me to drink something. I choose an Indian Chai. She offered me a sofa to sit on and said, "It's still a bit waiting" I used the time and watched the Indians serving the customers. They are all Sikhs, the caste of lions. As already mentioned in the video, all, without exception, had in my view badly fitting shirts if you watched to their axillary seams. For all 3, the seams hung over the shoulder, plus a checked pattern like a tea towel. Oh my god, I'm right here, these thoughts dominated. They served the customers nicely, but everything seemed a bit affected and clearly a bit too confident. It was my turn. I think it was the boss. Hello Sir, how can we help you was his first question. Of course, because of the maddening heat, I was loosely dressed, very thin, long-legged hemp trousers, casual t-shirt. Immediately a feeling came over me that he thought, hm, let's see what this guy wants here ??? I told him directly that I want to buy a shirt in which the welt seams top tip are made on my shoulders to my liking. The Sikh now began to palate with the style of a shirt cut, that there are different styles, etc.. It was taken measure, I emphasized again my desire. No problem, everything went pretty fast, in my view, just too autocratic. I should come again tomorrow afternoon to a next fitting And , if I take 4 shirts, the price will slow down to 6750 Bath for all 4. That's scarce 50 euros, a strong price in Thailand. But, ever since, I have agreed and I quietly looked for 4 shirt fabrics. It should be 3 long sleeve shirts and one short sleeve. When consulting the fabrics no support at the best tailor in Thailand. Where the substances come from, what quality differences have to be considered. Luckily I know what I want and the 4 substances have been taken. For the short sleeve shirt, I stressed that I do not want too long bat sleeves. Leaving out of the store, into 38 degrees and 88% humidity from Bangkok. The following day I came back to the store as agreed. At least one was recognized and then proudly took off a shirt with one of my fabrics from the shelf. Dressed and immediately seen, the maestros did not make the axillary seams as I wanted. Of course that was extremely annoying! The master came and again this discussion about style etc started. l stayed hard. This must be shortened at least 2 cm on each side, more close to the shoulder. There were some objections like, that's not comfortable, etc. But I thought, I want a shirt like I imagine and not like the Sikhs. After some back and forth we were through. I said you can take your time, I'll come back in 3/4 weeks and pick up everything. 3 weeks later. No one knew me anymore, but the order slip pulled out and the shirts came out loud. And now come on, of course I've tried again to control. 1 shirt was ok, means not great but ok. All other 3 were only shortened by 1 cm per side! It was Saturday, Monday morning in the morning, my Swissair went to Zurich. No problem, we change that and I can pick up the shirts tomorrow in the cafe behind the store. Means, again subway, suspension railway and the traffic hustle of Bangkok city.. At home, I tried the shirts again, as far now ok, the seams on the shoulders but I not at all, what I was loooking for. In addition, after washing, one oft he shirts, the fabric had shrunk severely, not useable anymore What do you learn from it? These gentlemen are too withdrawn. Have some time tailored a few shirts to some wellknown US politicians, photographs of those guys, are hanging like hunting trophies in the shop. It may be that they spent more effort there. In addition, there were some press fuzzis who probably got a suit or a pair of shirts for free, which have written the whole store in the sky. My recommendation, in this street there are lots of tailors like sand on the sea. All of them have one thing in common: they are at least 25% cheaper, more friendly and clearly communicate tahtyour the feeling is good. Next time I go to another and will report. Important tip: Go into such a tailoring and let yourself first tailor only 1 shirt. Determine everything that matters to you. If you have doubts about the fabric, have the fabric prewashed once at 40 degrees before cutting, then nothing shrinks when you wash it yourself. If that's complacent and good, then it's shitequal, whether it's Raja, another Indian or a Thai or someone else, the wardrobe will fit. From Raja I recommend everyone to keep their fingers crossed, this is a factory, arrogant, overbearing and too expensive for what you get. I have no problem with 50 or 60 euros for a shirt, but then it must fit absolutely perfect yourself without compromising . And everything I've seen in my 3 visits to Raja was rather average and nothing more.
Sradarji , seems like you have already given up on the name , why are you just keeping your beard , if you give up name , you might as well give up on the entire Sikhi
