Billy Harris, you're hanging with Harris. We're in Seattle with my very good friend,
John DeCaro. Of John DeCaro, Sartoria. It's so close, it's good. John DeCaro, Sartoria.
Tailors and shirt makers. Tailors and shirt makers. We're sitting here having
an espresso on a beautiful day in Seattle. Every time I'm here, it's beautiful and sunny.
They say it rains here, it doesn't rain here. It's sunny two days a year. How long have you
had this store? I've been here on this corner, first in Lenora, since 1990. 1990. And you were
brought into the business as a family business? I am second generation custom tailor. Father off
the boat? Father straight off the boat at 16, a full-fledged tailor because they sent him
to school, actually to an apprenticeship when he was a young boy to keep him out of trouble,
when he was in third grade. Where are they from? Calabria. The south where all the great custom
tailors in the north originally come from. Calabria, Sicily, Brutzi, Napoli. Custom suits,
custom shirts and very, very high-end accessories. The best neck wear, the best socks, the best
knit wear, the best outer wear. Beautiful custom-made robes made from silk or cashmere.
What makes this so unique? What's great about this store? You can either be a great technician.
Sure. You can either be a great designer and you can have some style. If you have all three,
you've hit it. And you become you. The trifecta because you can make a great coat and have absolutely
no style and the coat can look like a barrel. You might as well be wearing a barrel with
a couple of leather straps. So, I say it's all of those things. Some of the greatest tailors I
know, great hand work, have absolutely no taste. Do you wear a pocket square every day? Every day,
a man is not dressed without a pocket square. I'm not really a pocket square guy. I normally would
do a thicker, a double Windsor, a foreign hand, two in the bush, one in the tree, something like
that. There you go, yeah. But I thought maybe the skinny tie was in. I was trying to impress you,
doing something a little different. Failed horribly. Why don't you wear the pocket square?
That's why I came to see you. And I like color, as you could tell. Lots of color. Bursting
off the skin. I want you to help me out here today. Show me the way the shirt should fit. Go
with the pocket square. Maybe some color in the ties. Cosmetic surgery. What are we looking at
right here? You are looking at what I think is not a plaid. The cream of the crop when it comes to
sport jackets. This is herringbone. No, not herringbone. These are plaids. I said plaid the
first time. These are plaids. Well, I wasn't listening to you. But anyway, these are from
Carlo Barbera. These are what I consider the gold standard of sport jackets you can. When you have
a coat like this, it feels so nice. You don't need a woman. I walk in the store right now. This
is when you don't ask what the price is. Right. Which I'm not doing. This is Chateau Margot.
Okay. This is 200-year-old McCallan. I walk in here. You measure me up. Maybe we'll do a
little measure of me. I'm looking at 44 regular. How long does it take me to get a coat?
Well, to make a 48-portley short. Just kidding. Thank you very much. Never take a 48.
6 months. 8 weeks. 8 weeks. 8 weeks for the first suit because we're going to do several
fittings in between. At least 3 fittings. So it gets adjusted along the way. You're going to
have fabulous fabrics, but seriously. Who the hell would wear this thing here? Really rich
guys from Paris. Look at this rock and roll coat here with the custom stitching. This is for
a little hipper guy. This is actually vintage powder blue Dupioni silk. Dupioni silk. Yes,
and we're hand stitching it. That is not machine work. That is all done by hand. 3 1⁄8 of an
inch in pink silk thread. Rock and roll. Rock and roll. So we're going to start with baby steps.
Mr. Simon Legree here with the charcoal gray suit doesn't like to wear pocket squares. He's got
on the little skinny thighs. Time for change. He's in mad man. And we're going to do this real
quick. All right. You're going to put that in the paper shredder. Put that in the paper shredder.
All right. Deep charcoal suit. All right. We're going to add a little color here. You're going to
turn this way. A little color. A little color charcoal suit. And we're going to always lift
this up first before we make our knot. Okay. And we're going to do a modified foreign hand.
Once over. Once around. I love it. Up. Can you come to my house? And if you're pardoning my
expression. In. And that's what she said. Always keeping control of the smaller portion of the
necktie. With this. And look. Color. I should work here in the store, shouldn't I? I'm looking
beautiful. I feel beautiful. I'm Billy Harris. You've been hanging with Harris. One of my very
good friend, John Decaro. Of John Decaro. Satoria. In Seattle, Washington. Pay him a visit. You
look like a million dollars. Thanks for spending the day with us. Thank you. Good to see you.
Good to see you. My friend. Cheers. I'm taking the tie. This is because we have a special on
circumcisions in the afternoon.
