"Travelling cowboys"

Travelling cowboys

Raja Fashions, the bespoke suit tailor, first came onto my radar around 8 years ago when I was working for the Oxford Mail. They had taken out a large advert in our local paper, promising a world class tailor was visiting the city. Our reporter went along for a fitting and received 2 free suits in return for some further kind printed words. 6 weeks later the suits arrived and Mr Smith was the envy of the office in his smart new cloth.
Fastforward to 2013 and with my wedding approaching I remembered their name and wanted to treat myself to something special. Raja Fashions were in town again so I went online and made an appointment for sunday lunchtime.
I was hoping to see some samples of their work when I arrived but instead all the salesman had was several large books of material samples. It was a pretty daunting task flicking through these books trying to imagine such a small swatch as a full suit and the whole experience felt rather rushed with the next clients soon arriving and waiting in the same small hotel room. Beware too that I was asked my budget and then quoted exactly that figure. There are no price lists or prices marked on the swatches. I feel that if I had gone lower I would have got a cheaper deal.
I’m a slight chap and had a very clear vision of the suit that I wanted. A slim/skinny fititng leg with a clean cut mod feel. This was explained to the salesman as measurments were taken and despite some concerns at the time that he seemed to still want to cut the suit wider I was hoepfull that my dream suit would fly in from Hong Kong in 6 weeks...
What arrived was SO disappointing from the moment that I opened the door. It took me a couple of minutes to work out what had even just arrived when I seen the post mark. Surely a £700 bespoke suit wouldn’t arrive in a small tatty cardbaord box? As I pulled the suit out it was visibly creased due to the way that it had been folded up. The stitching looked amatuerish and the material felt, and looked VERY cheap. The buttons looked even cheaper. Maybe I’d change my mind after trying it on and seeing a bespoke suit professionally made to my exact measuremnts on me? No. The suit jacket hung off me around the chest and the shoulders were blocky and horrible. The sleeves were at least 2 inches short. Worse was to come though as I tried on the trousers. After the initial squeeze to do them up the short length of them swung around my ankles like some kind of 60’s flares. The trouser fit was so important to me as stressed at my fitting and these were so baggy and far away from the neat cut that I was after I felt so angry and cheated by these travelling cowboys.
No refunds are offered here - just the promise to alter your suit until it’s right so I was stuck now and just had to hope that it would be sorted to some kind of wearable standard at my fitting meeting.
After meeting again 4 weeks later and receiving my suit back it was still an awful fit on me. With my weddign fast approaching the tailor said it couldn’t now be done in time so suggested I go to a local tailor to complete but they couldn’t fix the mess that had been made. In the end the suit went to my local charity shop. A MASSIVE WASTE OF MONEY AND A REAL LET DOWN.

"Terrible fit and materials"

Bought a 'made-to-measure' suit from raja fashions in London and can honestly say there is nothing about the suit that arrived that was "made to measure".

here is the email I sent to them:
Hi,

I received my suit today.

I can complement you on the timely arrival of the suit but that is as far as my praise goes unfortunately.

The idea that the suit I received today was worth the £600 I paid for it is laughable. The material feels like a thick, rough horse blanket.
I took it to my tailor here and I am having to get him to take TWO INCHES from the suit jacket to make it fit reasonably and also 1 and ¾ inches from the trousers. This is going to cost me £42 on top of the suit itself.

What a disgrace. I am glad I was not talked into more suits from your organisation. I needed 2 more suits and also had two colleagues waiting for my comments before they bought – all I could do was tell them to go elsewhere.

I have bought off-the-rack suits for much less that felt better and also fit better. I can honestly say I wish I had taken my £600 elsewhere and had an off the rack suit from a trusted high-street retailer and had the amendments made to that.

You have wasted my time and a significant amount of my money. I will not be returning and will be leaving negative reviews online about your suits.