9tailors Holiday Gift Guide

This is pretty much the last weekend to do your holiday gift shopping. Christmas is about a week and a half away. Sales are passing by and quantities are becoming limited. Lucky for you, our 20% off purchases over $150 promotion goes until December 26th and our Holiday Male Box gets you 10% off 9tailors accessories and custom shirt gift cards*restrictions apply until the end of the year. 

Our holiday gift guide is for those who are looking to buy men's suiting accessories to help build up your man's wardrobe to become a tad bit more dapper. If you get him a tie, don't just get him a tie. Get him a tie and a tie-holder. This will show that you thought about the gift a little more rather than just grabbing a tie that you hope he likes but also help keep the tie in place during his day. If you get him a bow tie, pair it with a pocket square or knotted cuff links. Knotted cuff links are the perfect starter cuff links for someone who isn't entirely sure of them. They are casual yet styled and the best part is that they are inexpensive. They come in array of colors to match up with their colored shoe laces or shirts. 

Classic and Conservative, Black & White
9tailors accessories, clockwise: bow tie $35.00, knotted cuff links $9.00, silk pocket squares $35.00

Santa's Stocking Stuffers Red
Moving Left to Right: jegman "power tie" $35.00 paired with 9tailors tie-holder $12.00 for 2,
9tailors linen and cotton pocket squares $35.00, 9tailors knotted cuff links $9.00, 9tailors red-colored shoelaces $5.00

Grinch Green
Moving Clockwise, Everett "duke" bow tie $68.00, Everett tweed neck tie $68.00, 9tailors silk pocket square $35.00,
9tailors green-colored shoelaces $5.00, 9tailors knotted cuff links $9.00

Candied Cake Purple
Moving Clockwise: 9tailors silk and cotton pocket squares $35.00, OoOtie bow tie $49.00,
9tailors purple-colored shoelaces $5.00, 9tailors knotted cuff links $9.00 , 9tailors tie holder $12.00 for 2

Snowflake Blue
Moving from Left to Right, Top to Bottom: 9tailors silk pocket squares & linen pocket square with custom embroidery $40.00 each
9tailors knotted cufflinks $9.00 , 9tailors tie holders $12.00 for 2, 9tailors navy-colored shoelaces $5.00

Golden Yellow
Moving Clockwise: 9tailors silk pocket squares $35.00, 9tailors knotted cuff links $9.00,
Everett neck tie $68.00, Tsaiclip mustache tie bar $12 for 2

Interested in an item above or help putting together an accessories kit? Contact us at info@9tailors.com

Our Custom Winter Coat Collection is Here! Meet the Style Consultants Behind It, Ellen & Alex

Baby, it's snowing outside and Mother Nature has stopped gifting and confusing us with random warm days. Winter is here with snow and holiday cheer! Bundle up with layers and winter outerwear without looking like a giant marshmallow. 

Randy in A Christmas Story looking like a human marshmallow

Our Men's Outerwear Collection will keep you looking like a sophisticated adult while keeping you warm, and as always, is entirely custom-made to your personality. 

The collection was put together by two of our style consultants, Ellen and Alex. They each played a large role in deciding the customized details, what parts of the coats can be customized and putting together the beautiful samples you see in our studio. With three different samples available for viewing pleasures and trying-on purposes, you can decide if you'd like a casual coat, an every day work coat or a formal coat for your black tie events. 

Alex is standing with her sample favorite, the Brown Mid-Length coat with contrast lining.
Taylor Twellman approves (photograph on the wall, modeling a 9tailors custom trench coat).
Tie by Jegman

Alex, Studio Manager & Style Consultant. 

Hailing from New Hampshire, Alex travels down to the city of Boston on a weekly basis for the love of 9tailors - and her clients ;) You know who you are. Her affair with the company started three years ago after graduating from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a Fashion Degree, so you know you're in good hands. 

She continues her passion in her free time and for 9tailors. As studio manager, Alex ensures all of the orders goes smoothly and in a timely fashion, she keeps the wheels well oiled. She chose the fabric and designs for each of the sample coats in our studio. Alex picked all of the fabrics for the samples with the brown coat as her favorite. She loves the casual color mixed with the traditional tailored look and length giving it a perfect balance for every day wear. 

Ellen models with her favorite coat sample, the Plaid Peacoat with military details. 

Ellen, Style Consultant. 

Ellen one of the fresher faces in the studio but you wouldn't know it working with her. She's a fast learner and keeps on her toes, ready to guide you through your fittings and appointments. She's always ready to go as a true jet setter at heart, Ellen enjoys running out of the country at least once a year to satisfy her quench. 

Ellen played a large role in designing the details for our winter coat collection. Keeping in mind traditional styles, she opted for long lasting details to match up with our lasting quality. These coats aren't going to go out of style and will be personalized to you from fabric choice, contrasting details to length and fit; no two will ever be alike, much like our suits. 

Ellen's favorite pick is the paid peacoat. The plaid pattern catches her heart as a playfulness that matches with her personality. The military details keep the coat contemporary and less conservative with the contrasting color, pairing especially well with the bow tie. Although bow ties are more traditional, they are now seen as contemporary. Neck ties have been in mainstream work and play wear for the past few decades making them the "norm". It takes a special kind of man and skill to not only pull of a bow tie but also know how to tie a bow tie, especially when the bow tie has pigs on it. 

Want to be "that certain kind of special man" who knows how to tie a bow tie? 

Join us at our Style Workshop with oOoTie, the makers of that snazzy pig bow tie. 

*2 attendees will win a FREE Bow Tie of their choosing

*$25 off your next shirt order with purchase of a bow tie

*Have a drink on us, join us for that Winter warmer drink - whiskey

Interested in a custom winter coat for yourself or as a gift? Want to drop-in our bow tie event? Contact us at info@9tailors.com 

The Suit Essential

Rental suits are awful. You pay money to borrow something that you will wear for a few hours without any guarantee you will find the suit you’re looking for or that it will fit your unique body shape. One of our clients has pointed out; “the worst part is having to return it the next day while nursing a hang over”. Thankfully, 9tailors is giving away a custom tuxedo for the holiday season, up to a $550 value!

To enter, Like us on Facebook and Intsagram. Leave a comment on our pages when you’re done. We will be choosing the winner on 11/30/2013.

Although not every man needs a tuxedo, every man does need to own a suit. It is a staple that says, “I am a grown adult”. If you haven’t already seen the time-lapse transformation video of Jim Wolf, a homeless veteran, on YouTube or Gawker, you must.  Not only does a suit give you confidence, it gives off smart impression. You never know when an opportunity may arise. I cannot tell you how many times someone has called 9tailors in a panic seeking out a suit for an interview the next day. Our guest bartender for our Bourbon Tasting Event, Brother Cleve, has 8 suits. He wears them for everything and explains it best,

“I own 8 suits, including a tuxedo, a seersucker, a sharkskin and a Nehru/Mandarin styled suit I had tailored in a shop in Singapore’s Little India neighborhood (a shop with a Desi owner and a Chinese tailor).

People react differently when you show up at an event, be it a musical one or a cocktail party, wearing a suit. You stand out from the casual crowd, and maybe it gives a certain presence in a room. I favor hats as well, often of the porkpie variety – I always loved that style when I was young and looking at photos of jazz artists from, say, the 1950s. In the 90s when we were out at night wearing suits and drinking cocktails in stemmed glassware – things that had fallen out of favor over the 20 years beforehand – it was a statement. We weren’t salesmen who were still out after a long day working; we were revivalists just trying to bring back the ‘good life’.

By Wayne Valdez
Brother Cleve in 1981, post-punk days

I’m happy to see the return of the classic look of the well-tailored suit, presented not as retro but as a contemporary. To me it says, “I’m an adult” to the world. We live in a society where everything has become depressingly casual, where people think nothing about going out to the store in their pajamas, or to a top restaurant in a t-shirt and shorts. Our goal in our band Combustible Edison, back in the 90s, was to bring back a return to the ‘fabulousness’… we were ex-punk rockers wearing suits (from the thrift shop, for sure) and drinking cocktails and playing lounge music. It had a certain irony to it, but we ended up influencing people in Hollywood and on Madison Ave, which helped bands these days photographed wearing them, including my current band, The Singhs.

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Still from Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" music video featuring Wanz 

My least favorite trend, for a couple of decades now, is the continued use of brand names on clothes – I really don’t care what store you bought that t-shirt at and I don’t need to see everyone as a walking advertisement for mass market stores at shopping centers. It’s a fake status symbol that means nothing. It’s all part of the dumbing down of society. We’ve been reduced to being walking billboards, and paying to be so!”

You do not need 8 suits in your wardrobe, but you can absolutely build up to it. Start off with grey suit and a navy blazer.  President Obama sticks with the basics, "You'll see I wear only gray or blue suits", he tells Vanity Fair. They are the most versatile to swing for every occasion and you automatically look like a sophisticated gentleman who knows what they're doing. The darker the grey suit is, the more formal it is.

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A simple navy blazer completely transform an outfit

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If you haven't started your adult wardrobe and need a suit, now is the perfect time! For the month of November, Movember, we are having a 20% off suits and separates promotion. Don't wait until the night before your big interview or your own wedding (it's happened, 1 week is the closest phone call we've gotten so far, 1 day for a guest of a wedding) to get your suit. 

Interested in starting off your suit collection? Need to add that essential navy blazer? Want to take advantage of our 20% off November promotion? Contact us at info@9tailors.com