Tailor/Pattern Maker

The Zack Ballinger Show

With the pandemics effect dressing I wrote 2 extensive online courses. The possibility is that the pandemic will not totally cancel culture. The courses show that each of us has a personal culture that contributes to humanity at large. My book/courses are "The Wardrobe Game" ``Grooming your mind and Body" and The Philosophy of Fit- how to build your own tailoring business without sewing. I have 30 year roots as a cutter and patternmaker to be able to achieve bespoke fit. My interest is to redeem the loss of tailoring standards lost with European tailors in WW2, as well as how society can review the sanctity of the body once appreciation of the craft of tailoring is reached. Much like wine tasting to prevent alcoholism. In fact a good suit is like an old wine, it gets better with age. Appreciation of one's taste and bodily parameters is everyman's business. Tailored garments are like slow food, it should be a good proportion of our consumption for long term benefits as well as short term pleasures.

After 40 years of training as a cutter and designer, I am confident that the course with webinars can be automated to build national factories for less centralized, less globalized and a more sustainable business model. (less slave labour) Designers will be supported with back-ends sites such as Suitstyler.com and Planet-tailored.com (This is the world's first consumer app for standards of fit). Online training will be the first time since the invention of "retail sizes" for a scalable industry. Now with web efficiencies a tailoring designer is all one needs to have a coordinated wardrobe package designed. I believe there is great value and self-employment for people in the 21st C. Having a tailoring designer should move men past the material into the richness of their tailored relationship. This is the opposite of retail sales, “cow call mentality” where only the price fits.