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We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it.

— Colin Firth

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you're wearing suits and you want to create your own sense of style, get to the tailor.

— Matt Bomer

A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

— Vincent Piazza

A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.

— Jidenna

Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.

— Ozwald Boateng

Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut.

— Olivier Theyskens

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

— Daniel Craig

Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

— Douglas Coupland

When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it.

— John Varvatos

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

— Paul Graham

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

— David Oyelowo