A wedding party sized for the Diamond Ballroom is sixteen men, and sixteen men are sixteen hems, a few sleeves, and at least one waist that changed since the measurements were sent. Whether Roman can do sixteen was never the question. When is, and when is a schedule.
How long each job takes
Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, can often do the small jobs while you wait. For bigger work he quotes the job and confirms the completion date before he starts, and a few weeks a year are busy enough to push that date out, so the plan below has slack in it. Each man hears his own date, so the groom knows which is which.
The schedule
Two weeks out at the latest, the men who live here come in for their fittings, and the bigger jobs start as soon as Roman has dated them. One week out, the out-of-town men arrive and are fitted the day they land. Their measurements went ahead, so what’s left for them is usually a hem or a sleeve, the small end of Roman’s table, not a jacket taken apart. The morning of the wedding, nobody is at a tailor. That’s the whole plan, and it works because the store and the tailor are in the same building.
What the groom sends ahead
The out-of-town measurements, early. The shoes each man will wear, or the heel height if the shoes are coming with the man. And one person’s phone number, so sixteen questions become one.
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