ATTENTION: All MTM/custom suit brands are invited to participate in this challenge. If you’re game, get in touch for more details.

A reader named Justin emailed me with an interesting proposition:

He said he has a hard-to-fit build and wanted to challenge the most reputable custom suit brands to make him a suit that fits.

He also said that he wants to publish the results of this “fit challenge” right here on The Modest Man. Needless to say, I gave him the go ahead.

Several brands turned down the challenge outright, but a few expressed interest. The following is Justin’s first review of the challenge, featuring Knot Standard.

Hey gents! I’m Justin.

I’m an undergraduate student at NYU, and I’m also impossibly difficult to fit.

This post is the first installment of “The Fit Challenge”, where I reached out to custom / MTM suit companies in the New York area and challenged them to make a suit that fits me.

Fitting me is indeed quite a challenge – I’m 5”2 (on a good day) and around 145 pounds, with a 40 inch chest and a 24 inch inseam. Let the games begin…

Knot Standard Review

Disclosure: I received this suit free of charge, for the sake of this review.

Although Knot Standard wasn’t the first company to respond to me, they were the first to get me fitted, and for that they get credit.

First, some background on the operation: Knot Standard was founded in 2010, and now boast 7 showrooms. The product line is somewhat vague if you look at the website, so I’ll clarify here:

If you order online, you can choose from either the Classic Collection (starting at $595) or the Private Collection (starting at $795, and going up to around $3000).

The showroom experience is totally different, unlike places like My.Suit or Indochino, where the showrooms are essentially extensions of the website.

At the Knot Standard showroom, suits start at $795, and can go up to $18,000 (!).