{"id":120,"date":"2012-09-05T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/2012\/09\/05\/whats-a-4000-suit-worth\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:03:00","slug":"whats-a-4000-suit-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/whats-a-4000-suit-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a $4,000 suit worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am occasionally contacted about my services as a bespoke tailor and I have to try to explain that, while it is something I very much enjoy doing, I only do it for the fun of it, and not as a business.  Why?  You just can&#8217;t make decent money doing it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/09\/magazine\/whats-a-4000-suit-worth.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\"><br \/>The NY times ran a short piece about tailoring and economies of scale.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is a better explanation of why the RTW industry is my bread and butter, and why the only time I take on a new commission is because there&#8217;s something I really want to make- purely for the pleasure of doing it, and not for the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am occasionally contacted about my services as a bespoke tailor and I have to try to explain that, while it is something I very<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/whats-a-4000-suit-worth\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjeffery.us\/tuttofattoamano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}