Today's Articles (4/6/2025)
The Great Italian Tailoring Crisis
The Bay of Naples is close enough to perfume its entrance with each gust of wind blown inland from the Mediterranean Sea; inside, the dewy summer air mingles with the smell of good coffee, fine fabric, and old money.
The realisation that 'dewy summer air' is probably just a nicer way of saying humid.
If tailoring ceases to be a working-class profession built on years of training and apprenticeship in the old ways, the assembly-line approach to bespoke tailoring might save the industry while killing the profession.