The Roots of Retail
The word retail comes from the 13^th C. French word “tailler”, which means "to cut off, clip, pare, divide". It was first recorded as a noun with the meaning of a "sale in small quantities". Ironically tailors also cut or sculpt individual clothing, the kind of personalization that retailing cannot provide. Originally tailor shops made everything on premise, but after the manufacturing era started in the early 18th century, the idea of altering or re-tailoring a readily made suit “size” was created and hence the word re-tailors also seem to fit. Also interestingly enough the word size comes from the term assize that was a judgment or verdict usually or verdict or finding rendered by the jury.

As the fit of a garment would demand some judgment from the buyer or even the onlookers. Early tailors had mixed feelings on ready-mades. On one hand they were lowering standards of fit but on the other a convenience for hasty customers. The loss of some 10,000 estimated tailors in Europe’s wars further prompted the loss of tailoring standards of fit and the convenience of no tailoring.  This also led to the strength of consumer brands, sales clearances and more compromises to the “wor-shoppers” of manufactured and advertised brands. What would be missing is the service providing consumers with values and valuable information on “how to appear”.

A Tailoring Design Career?

Your Service Extraordinary

As you achieve tailoring knowledge you will be able to offer what most retail stores can’t, service and personal value. All without sewing skills. The market is full of people that buy on sale and have to find a tailor adding to the cost, as well as the problems of a satisfactory fit. This is because many suits cannot be altered properly once they are cut for the rack. If people pay full price, only then will they get professional alterations or tailoring included. Often the only minor alterations, not professional re tailoring.

A Little History of Tailoring

Since the 1700’s gentlemen have been posturing their bodily image and self-respect with this unspoken language for their benefit that led to some pretentious behavior. The word retailor comes from the word “tailor”. Originally tailor shops made everything on premise, but after the manufacturing era started in the early 18th^th century, the idea of altering or re-tailoring a readily made suit in what was called a size, was created and hence the word re-tailors. The suitmakers opinion of compromising with this “size” was mixed. On one hand they were lowering standards on the other a tempting business approach for hasty customers and competition. The service providing consumers with valuable information would be missing. The days when fathers brought in their sons to the tailor shop to talk about success and dressing was on the demise. Missing was that essential human factor to the metaphor of sculpting one’s social life. A TD’s future is about sharing with professionals, the values of being good, feeling good and looking authentic.

Get out and Network

After you have followed the measurement chart and measuring sequences. Start practicing on friends and the compare to one of their suits as to how well you have measured. When you are close to perfect you can consider dressing yourself for success and networking. When you are starting your networking day it’s good to keep in mind talking tailoring with new contacts as a default conversation. Taking note of their choice of cloth possible their coordination of garments or something positive you find.  Add your sincerity and skills and you will be entering a world of professionalism. You as an online course graduate will share the benefits of all TD graduates as we pass out thousands of Planet-tailored.com and Suitstyler.com cards. We will all benefit from search engine optimization, putting the site on top of google as people search for “how a tailored suit should fit”. By that time your name could be on the sites under your cities name or district.

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Do Smart Men Consider Deep Dressing?

 Deep dressing is a way to show an appreciation for life’s colors, textures, shapes and details. That we are more than our clothes, allowing us to dress for simple, safe and sometimes overt pleasures. One can dress not just “for” respect but “to” respect.

In sartorial terms one may not take clothing too seriously and learn and enjoy dressing up a notch to practice one’s manners and generosity (in kind). Shakespeare once said, “the whole world’s a stage” You might even say it’s an urban adventure.  Ironically often those that have developed good character without dressing often benefit the most, when they do dress. This happens naturally as deep dressers use clothing to frame, not overshadow the character, allowing them to build the wardrobe and their people skills together.  Many brand followers (sartorial idolatry) do so as a natural consequence of spiritual devoid, treating tailoring as part of cloth and material with no human intermediary. In doing so sort of dehumanize themselves by not understanding the elements of tailoring, that is completion of shape (so only rumples or relaxed cloth that can later be pressed, remains)

Clothing is everyman’s art and part of personal culture. This healthy human activity is part of our documented human need for rituals and the third level of humanities better behaviors according to psychologists. Underneath, Games and Postulate (spirit based education, philosophy, story-telling) The study of our environment including clothing is called Aesthetics.

When we stop thinking or questioning, we start believing, forfeiting the wisdom of insecurity. Einstein maintained that he was not a genius but simply suspended and reflected on issues rather than disregard them. Like being on stage a little insecurity is invigorating and human. It’s a practice that is healthy. Immunologists maintain that low stress and high stress are hard on the system, but medium stress and relaxation is a good practice. So if its what’s inside that counts, then are we not being insipid by dressing neutral or mediocre? Are we not sabotaging ourselves by not showing up with a little visual generosity? Psychologists deal with more and more people that pretend that they have no power, no goals, and fail at self-esteem to creatively proudly, “pay it forward”, band be grateful. Here erroneous belief is that if its what’s inside that counts then one should turn the inside to the outside. It becomes a rite of passage to be a role model, not just to quietly do good. The men’s mandate is to enjoy being fully present with evidence of some competence visually and emotionally to compliment others with deep listening skills.

Fashion without reflection and rapport is superficial. Dressing with the intervention of an unbiased person helps to humanize the purchase, especially when it is personalized to fit to the body there is commitment and substance. Deep dressing involves more than just personal value but practicing being complimentary and creating rapport with honorable 

String Theory, Music, Tailoring & Culture

Steve Pelman

Forward- My Past

 Note;  This is a blog-book and chapters will repeat some information to maintain the context The purpose is to best reach the public to avail the values of this new brave new industry for the 21 st. C

My father was a latecomer as a retailor in men’s clothing after WW2, he was also a great tenor in the community temple Choir.   I learned music to the point of passion that I want to transfer the discipline to visual harmony. This is significant as dressing, and music are both vibrations and a part of the new string theory of quantum physics. Waves permeate matter and are indications of how culture or integration can work. Einstein could not believe the “Quantum Entanglement” experiment and called it spooky. This is readily available on YouTube and people would have to deny science. They would also have to deny culture as a relative phenomenon.  My disciplines are visual and audible and share the same purpose to integrate via these rituals as any living species would participate.

As the second son and fourth child, hearing his singing from that great distance was often the most impressionable communication of power and passion. This I took as a message of the power he emanated. Given in the fifties that the news of the Holocaust and the constant air-raid sirens threatening nuclear disaster, I was moved to consider rock and roll to be the new electric messiah, or the “message or the pied piper of civilizing culture via music via enlightening or wisdoms of engaging lyrics. It was well known the term by Marshal McLuhan, that the medium was the message. And the multitudes of baby boomers seem to be the spearhead for “sculpting civilization”. That was my mission for many years. As it happens the Beatles beat me to the emancipation of the Russian youth to the extent that the Russian government ended up their ban on western music by actually selling Beatles albums. (according to CBC 5^th Estate Series)

But I soon realized the musical gamble I was playing with the multitudes of dudes competing for glory. Most of the music was redundant tribal (strong beat) entertainment and was not creating a larger pie or market, but was simply just replacing love and loss songs. The industry was capitalizing on human frailties, but hardly sculpting personalities and healthy souls for a dynamic civilization.  

When I was in college my profession said that Shakespeare wrote, “In what tailor shall we find Plato”. Now this to me at the time was interesting to look in the context of Shakespeare’s time to the human nature of dress and its value among men and competition. As my father was a “re”tailor,  I was curious as to the tailors history and decided to take a job with him at Sam’s Shirt Shop. After a few years of selling suits, I realized  that even though all customers were content, that there was always one client fit that was exemplary. This was when I opted out for a better standard. Then along came the web to publish and proliferate with apps, those standards.

It was then I learned why there were no standards and why so many suits did not fit. I realized the estimated loss of 10,000 European tailors during WW2 among the change of values to electronics, cars and virtual entertainment. The perfect suit has a value that was only handed down from a father and his tailor to his son. This is virtually lost as the fathers mostly do not know. Certainly I see country presidents and corporate VIP with bad jacket collars who like the Emperors new clothes, failed due to trusting rather than sharing the standards that link all men.  Many of those sartorial secrets were buried in the genocide of the 1940’s.  My life mission started there. To redeem the souls of those craftsmen, the values that can be shared by all men. This is true today with scalable online training of tailoring design and the shared economy to fight the new inflation. A man’s dignity is not in how many suits are in his closet, but by his confidence in just one suit.

What does fit do with becoming a tailoring designer?

 As you achieve tailoring knowledge you will be able to offer what most retail stores can’t. Only high end stores may offer world class “standards of fit”. You see today retail stores do not retailor, but actually just do minor alterations. The word retailor is actual used for original tailor shops that after manufactured “sizes” came into production would then re tailor the garment. This would allow for men to try on the garment whereas before in cloth form they could not get a good idea. Without proper balance of garment, a suit will wear out prematurely in the slacks and jackets will contort its shape rather than shape to the body.

Your future is about sharing with professionals the values of an authentic fit suit and the self-respect clients get when you give them their personal Brand aid, rather than what they have been buying that is a “Band-Aid.”  We find that many appreciative clients tend to lose weight after they realize how good they can look. Our factory direct business competes with high overhead, expensive convenience purchases and lip service salesmen. Add your sincerity and skills and you will be entering a world of professionalism from one’s formal training and corporate culture initiation.

You as an online course graduate will share the benefits of all TD graduates as we pass out thousands of Planet-tailored.com and Suitstyler.com cards. We will all benefit from search engine optimization, putting the site on top of google as people search for “how a tailored suit should fit”. By that time your name could be on the sites under your cities name or district.

Fashion and superficiality is costing the planet in terms of wasted energy used for garments that are thrown away. A good cloth properly made in a suit is masculine in its substance. Something women admire and cannot find today cheaply. The fact is proper fit is the object of beauty and not typical of most subjective styled seasonal fashion. Although both is fun too. For personal investment for your clients we will should you have to create a wardrobe foundation to take all the wear and creates one’s strong image. Smart men build and rotate their wardrobes so they are not always replacing. As quality suits have doubled in cost in the last 10 years, the time is right to learn to measure, sell and retain good clients.  Since the 1700’s gentlemen have been posturing their bodily image and self-respect with this unspoken language for their benefit that led to some pretentious behavior. Your attitude is your choice as long as you perform and respect your clients. You will not have to sell, but simply dress well, socialize smartly, and enjoy your prospects. Authenticity is a great value in a world of fakes, automated products, faceless salespeople and hasty shoppers who believe its what’s inside that counts, as dressing well can be associated with humility although, its best that you are great at something to act humble. Once your clients see fit, they will have more confidence, enjoy themselves and others by being the best suit in the room.

How about Wealth as a TailoringDesigner?

Your lifestyle of a millionaire Tailoring Designer? Imagine honing yourself self-confidence while studying tailoring-design in a simple 5 hour course. Then imaging improving and capitalizing on your respect and appreciation of people that may be or lead a customer to you!  All the while you build your wardrobe. “No money to build your wardrobe” is a convenience reaction and untrue these days as I can show you the 5 steps to building your wardrobe and your people skills. You will learn not just the technical measuring skills but how to meet potential clients, who don’t yet know they need you. Today, nobody is going to tell someone their suit doesn’t fit. Accept but someone that they have met with a better fitting suit. With my course each day you will be building your new world, through text, videos and webinars you can build yourself as an asset, with mental and physical habits that you will positively adopt for your personal benefit. I have made my assets in real estate using tailoringdesign to pay my mortgages. I will show you the first steps to becoming a millionaire that is not that difficult once you are enjoying your work, good investment works in the background.

Do you or would you like to enjoy dressing “for” or “to” respect?   Care to shoot the breeze with men of means, men that live in the heart of exercise and passion? Men of intelligence that need your talent and persistence, trust in you and belief in them? Men that you coach to self-appreciation. With your old and new skills to create rapport, you will wake up each day to a regime of being the person you have always wanted to be. One that is comfortable in their own skin and evolving wardrobes, being comfortable socializing with new appreciation of people. You will be a part of a whole new phenom of online family via my course in a movement unparalleled since the manufacturing of so newly termed sizes and after the convenient alterations.

Seeking high incomes generally has its ups and downs, but the tailoring designer lifestyle is much freer and only limited by your agenda and habits. If you want to be a self-made man or woman, TD offers you a more creative, more mobile and a highly competitive option to consumers in the multimillion dollar retail suit business. Why highly competitive? Because of TD’s on line standards of sartorial fit via www.planet-tailored.com. Starting soon will give you a lead in your city that will be listed on this site.

Today you can become a designer to the Stars with little sewing.

Tony Robbins was the first client of mine that I supported before he could afford to get clothes. His build demands tailoring. Listen to him and you can do well. Keep in mind he does not visit Vancouver and his suits are not mine anymore. So I am not responsible for their fit. To be successful means defining success with a vision, building your life around your convictions and sometimes feeling successful where you are, but continuing for other reasons such as family and community. To break your old mold, you need to study TD 30 min. daily for a month. (that’s 20 min with 10 minutes’ review of current and previous weeks notes) This is a formal technique although each has their own style of learning and improvements. Knowing how to earn new habits, prompts desire for more. Dressing well and serving others (that you learn to respect and benefit from) is the best lifestyle.

With online training, webinars and forums from Tailoring-designer.com you will have a virtual fraternity, ready to interact when you are. Keep thinking positive and exercise, its worked well for me or your mind will fall back to old bad habits. Winston Churchill had his “Black Dog” depression but overcame it with proactive and passionate action in order to achieve his plan of action. Success is a constant trial and error, effort and reflection accompanied by positive internal affirmations and occasionally externally. Working dynamically with new visualizations that encourage, a type of ritual or planned celebration of an accomplishment. This will mark time for more learning and another goal and celebration! It’s smart to challenge yourself and find the good questions. Real change demands lots of successful Kaizen or small "relished" change. Have the ability to embrace it enthusiastically. Kaizen is key your sculpting your future as a tailoring designer sculpts his cloth” with his choice of measurements.

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