Blank Label, one of the hundreds of online clothing apps that let people design & customize their own off-the-rack factory-made shirts, claims that a a light blue herringbone fabric would cost $300 at your ‘Local Tailor’. The complete inaccuracy of that aside, it really got us thinking… What’s does ‘local tailor’ even mean anymore? Aren’t we rendering the term obsolete? 

You see, Bespokeable enables people to connect to and collaborate with awesome tailors from all over the world right from their home computers, without ever having to leave their homes.  As a result, the tailor’s location becomes totally irreverent. Collaborating on a design with a tailor on Bespokeable is the same whether that tailor is way across the globe or just down the street.

The ‘Local Tailor’ is in Vietnam.

Lam Couture, a highly rated tailor on Bespokeable (100% positive customer feedback), has the very same fabric that Blank Label says costs $300 at the tailor (120s 2 ply light blue herringbone) for just $60, which by the way, is less than half of the price Blank Label is charging for making it in their Chinese factory.

So, if the fine tailors at Lam Couture can handcraft this beautiful fabric into an even more beautiful shirt in their small studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and have it shipped right to your front door, aren’t they the local tailor?  

The ‘Local Tailor’ is in Italy. 

PIACEMOLTO, another highly reputed tailor on Bespokeable (100% positive customer feedback), from the heart of the fashion world in Milan, Italy, also has a similar fabric that is cheaper than Blank Label’s factory made shirts - this time for a third of what they claim costs at the tailor. 

So again, if the excellent tailor at PIACEMOLTO can handcraft this shirt in his studio in Milan, Italy, and have it shipped right to your front door - without you ever having to leave your house - isn’t he the local tailor?

At Bespokeable, we recognize that artisan talent is everywhere the world over. It’s our goal to organize that talent and make it insanely easy  for people to discover them, collaborate on designs with them, and transact with them, no matter where they are.

The talent is everywhere; so should be the local tailor!