The Clawson Historical Museum occupies a house built around 1919 by Oswald and Deborah Fisher, furnished as it would have been in the 1920s or before, across Main Street from the City Hall. A city that keeps a house rather than clearing it understands something about maintenance, and the same instinct applies to clothes, where it has almost entirely died out.
The instinct that died
Once, a suit was assumed to be adjusted over its life as the man changed. Now a suit that stops fitting is usually replaced, which is expensive and mostly unnecessary, because the body’s changes are almost all in places a tailor can reach.
What can be reached
The waist in either direction, the seat, the sleeves, the length, and the sides of the jacket. That covers the great majority of what fifteen years does to a man. Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, does all of it, on suits bought anywhere.
And what can’t
The shoulder. If that seam has ended up out on the arm, the suit is finished as a jacket, though select suits on our floor sell as separates, so trousers that still fit needn’t be thrown out with it.
More on alterations, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
