Choosing your first suit cloth: weight, weave and where you will wear it
Bangkok is hot, offices are cold, and weddings are outdoors. A guide to the five books we cut from, and which one to start with.
Methee · Journal
Notes from one bench.
Cloth, cut and the small decisions that make a suit yours. Written in the workshop on Charoen Krung 44.
Single or double-breasted: how to decide from your shoulders
The front of a jacket is a frame for your face. Which one suits you has less to do with fashion than with the width of your shoulders and the way you stand.
Fifty-eight years at one bench
What has changed on Charoen Krung since 1968, and what has not.
Measuring at home: the four numbers people get wrong
Shoulder, waist, neck and sleeve. Take these four properly and the first fitting is usually the last.
Two-ply shirting, explained
Why two thin yarns twisted together outlast one thicker yarn, and what 100 to 150 g/m² feels like on a Bangkok afternoon.
Press less, hang more
A wool suit wants a wide hanger and a night off. Dry clean it twice a year, not twice a month.
Pleats are back, and they were never wrong
A single or double pleat gives the trouser room to move. When to choose one over a flat front.
