Peter´s Tailor Shop
Tailors have gone a bit out of fashion. Not only are the kids dressing like slobs these days, but when Gap alone offers its pants selections for women in half a dozen different lengths, the value of a good tailor is shuffled aside. When your clothes break, you don´t have them fixed; you have them put down. But in terms of elegance, true quality and unbeatable fit, it behooves every one of us to find a trusty tailor and do our best to keep this lofty profession from going the way of the blacksmith. Besides, in this age of shoddy ready-to-wear craftsmanship, it´s good to know that there´s a tailor like Peter here to hem Liz, tuck Tommy and sew buttons back on Calvin. The work is quick, reasonably priced and always top quality. We´ve gone in on emergency jobs days before leaving the country with trousers that trailed us like a tail, and Peter has saved the day. But his greatest coup was rebuilding the gorgeous brown satin lining of a second-generation winter tweed full-length coat (only Florida transplants can appreciate the value of a truly spectacular coat). After the operation, this skillful surgeon handed us the patient and announced, ¨It´ll last you another 30 years.¨ Huzzah.
Peter´s Tailor Shop, 778 Indian Rocks Blvd., Belleair, 727-558-8919.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2004.