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GQ was our biggest press release till date. We were featured on the prestigious magazine GQ British during September 2014.  GQ back in 2014 was celebrating 50 years of woolmark symbol for the fine existence of MERINO WOOL. So we were the only BESPOKE TAILOR from THAILAND selected as one of the MOST INSPIRING FASHION DESIGNER for being the proud user of fine MERINO wool. Needless to say, our suits are crafted from the finest merino wool spun in Australia. They names as the best bespoke tailor in Bangkok and recommended the readers to visit us during their stay in Thailand and also acknowledge our traveling tailor program. Yes, we visit UK twice a year to serve our existing clients. GQ is the authority on men. For more than 50 years, GQ has been the premier men’s magazine, providing definitive coverage of style and culture. With its unique and powerful design, work from the finest photographers and a stable of award—winning writers, GQ reaches millions of leading men each month. The only publication that speaks to all sides of the male equation, GQ is simply sharper and smarter.

It seems like the team of Bangkok.com or Bangkok magazine has repeatedly been asked on the best tailors in Bangkok . Which we believe prompted them to approach us. One of the editor came to down to our store and purchase a suit and some dress shirts. The next moment we know we are being interviewed by Bangkok’s leading magazine. The editorial claim UNIVERSAL TAILORS as the best bespoke suit tailor in Bangkok. Guess, they were bowled over by obsession for quality and high end workmanship. We must say, the editor was a bit fussy and he got the best out of us. Bangkok Magazine is the ultimate Bangkok  city guide. Bangkok Magazine brings the openings, weird and wonderful attractions and reveals on places that locals want to keep secret. It’s guaranteed site to make sure that the travelers experience is out of the ordinary. The site is highly popular among expats that is trying to get a hold of the city and the travelers finding the best restaurants and shopping arenas. Its featured stories is a must read.

This can be considered one of our most prolific feature ever.  Business Traveller magazine approached us to be featured us on “ Satorial Jorney” article. They stress on the point that Asia is renowed for sharp tailoring at reasonable prices and wanted to get insights from tailors to guide on the cut, style and fabric. So, the editor selected one reputable tailor each in Bangkok, HongKong and Singapore. And guess what, we were only one that got the chance from Bangkok tailoring scene. We gave our views on the latest trends and styles for 2015. And since the magazine focus on business travelers, we give key insights on the fabric that wrinkles least and best use for traveling. And guided more on how to pack and fold the suits while travelling.  Read the article for full sartorial guide on your next two piece suit. Business Traveller is the leading magazine for the frequent business traveller, with ten editions worldwide including the UK, US, Asia-Pacific, China, Middle East, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, and Africa, including websites in the UK. Launched in the UK in 1976, it has become the leading magazine around the world for the frequent business traveller. It is a consumer publication, aimed at entertaining business travellers, saving them money and making their travelling life easier. Each edition is packed with editorial on the latest news from airlines, airports, hotels and car rental. It reviews travel products, including the latest gadgets, technology and accessories designed to make the traveller’s life easier and more efficient. And guide upon destinations – where to stay, what to eat, what to see, and how to behave, all delivered by their own writers and journalists around the world.

Few months back, we got featured on Momondo place city guide. Momondo places‘ is an interactive city guide app helping you to find hotels, restaurants, shops, sights, markets and activities for your city trip.  It is a FREE travel guides written by locals that help you discover a city’s most authentic spots and secrets – all tagged according to travel mood. We remember when one of the freelance local writer/photographer  made a sudden surprise visit to our store. He started taking pictures while we were busy consulting with our client. The writer touch upon the fact that Bangkok tailoring scene is full of scam. The so called tailors put up deals that is too good to be true; eg: 100$ for 1 suit.  To help avoid this, the city guide picked three tailors and highlighted us as the top tailor in Bangkok and Silom (street full of tailors). And guess what?  Mr. Ronnie, the head hancho and founder of Univeral Tailors were featured on the cover page. The writer captured him while crunching and totaling up the numbers. Momondo is a free, independent and global travel search site that compares billions of prices on flights, hotels, car hire and holiday rentals. With one click , one can search across the leading providers and travel sites and find the best flight prices. It shows the cheapest departure and arrival dates, the best balance between price and flight time, and reveal how factors such as days to departure and seasonality affect fare prices. They don’t sell the tickets – they are a free and independent service for all travellers.

Bespokeable offers Visual product customization & commerce solutions.  It’s a platform that allows the user to easily display & sell custom-made goods online. This is one of the first press release we had. Bespokeable contacted us as they wanted to ventured their online product customization into tailoring website. They did extensive reach and found us to be one of the most popular tailor in Bangkok, Thailand.  They also interviewed couple of other Bangkok tailors but as you can see our name comes first in the hierarchy. We shared our thoughts on the increasing need for a successful website displaying all the fabrics and styles for our customers. The fact is that it is has become a very important aspect of our business as our clients (90% being foreigner) cannot visit our flagship store year after after so they would like the option to use their saved measurement and purchase additional suits and shirts. The software is still under testing period. Once, the full version is out, we will sure adopt them in our site.

Bangkok 101 magazine is Bangkok’s popular monthly lifestyle and travel guide. The writer approached and got us talking about how we operate our business.  We then further elaborated and explain more on the tailoring scene in Bangkok. How the business has been affected by TUK TUK scams that try to rip off foreigner looking for affordable tailor made suits. Moreover, majority of tailor offering too good to be true deals like “1 suit 1 shirt for 120 USD. The write quoted our line “ You cannot compare a quality suit on the basis of price alone”..  To further add, clients often mention that we are expensive but one should compare our quality suit by apple to apple. Most tailors in Bangkok use cheap canvas, interlining, shoulder pads, lining; etc. If you compare our suits with similar one in Europe or USA, ours is more affordable. Lastly, we didn’t pay the magazine unlike the other three tailors that got the full coverage. But nevertheless, they listed us at the top above other tailors.

We first got featured in Business Travel Asia pacific edition and then after few months Business traveler GERMANY edition approached us. To reveal, Germans accounts for big chunk of our clientele and revenue. They are passionate about their suits and understand quality. We also visit major cities of Germany once a year to meet our fellow client/friends. The content is the same as the Asia Pacific Edition.

We got featured again by Bangkok.com. It seems like we are their favorite tailor. Well, we have been making suits for most of their staff now.  This time they decide to write up about 5 top tailors in Bangkok and we made it to the list expectedly. They did acknowledge the fact that the store is run by father and son duo (aka Ronnie and Raj). We are among the few that do not employ salesman. We deal with the clients directly; take the measurement and always there during the fitting process unlike many stores. But ofcourse he have helpers in store. We would love to believe that we are better than the other tailors in the list. The write appreciated the fact that we carry some finest wools from Italian top mills like Vitale Barberis, Zegna, Loro Piana etc. Bangkok Magazine is the ultimate Bangkok  city guide. Bangkok Magazine brings the openings, weird and wonderful attractions and reveals on places that locals want to keep secret. It’s guaranteed site to make sure that the travelers experience is out of the ordinary. The site is highly popular among expats that is trying to get a hold of the city and the travelers finding the best restaurants and shopping arenas. Its featured stories is a must read.

For those who understand, Italian please email us. We can email you the PDF file in Italian. In English, the Marco Polo magazine simply chose one tailor in Thailand. And that is us. They were indeed satisfied with the content we supplied them and seeing that we got featured in many other travel magazine, they decided on UNIVERSAL TAILORS. We are indeed quite grateful. Marco Polo is synonymous with travel and the perfect brand name for a travel guide publisher. While the company is new, but they have an experienced team with many years of expertise in successfully producing and selling cartographic products and travel guides. They offer an extensive range of high quality publications, including Marco Polo Guides – the guides with Insider Tips, Spiral Guides, Travel Handbooks, traditional folded maps, laminated city & holiday maps, road atlases and phrasebooks.

We got featured in TWO MAGAZINE in their 2015 gift guide. They wrote us under the Great Basics praising our LINEN shirts which they claim is the perfect tailored shirt for travel. They quoted “The linen shirt is the embodiment of effortless style. Especially in the tropics, when the days are longer, and during the holidays, when sunset drinks rolls into dinner, the linen shirt seems to to take the lead. To celebrate the jet-setting months of winter, we suggest you pick up a versatile, linen shirt to pack with you wherever you go. Try Universal Tailors, who offer a beautiful collection of Japanese and Irish woven linen with  stunning, mother of pearl buttons”. Two Magazine quickly earned a reputation as a pioneering English-language publication for men in Southeast Asia. Its unique content mix was always at forefront of fashion and design trends, bringing readers the latest and greatest from the international luxury lifestyle sector. Mindful of an ever-evolving marketplace and conscious of the appeal that much of our content had across gender boundaries, Two Magazine realized that labeling ourselves a “men’s magazine” alienated many readers who could otherwise enjoy our offerings. Style, culture, and the search for unique and alternative perspectives are universal ideals that are valued by both our readers and our team, regardless of their gender.

This was a surprise editorial for us. We weren’t aware of this until the editor emailed us. We got featured in the article “MEN’S GUIDE TO BESPOKE SUITS”. The magazine is aimed for the Thais as it is written in Thai. To read the article: https://www.dooddot.com/mens-guide-to-bespoke-suits/ For those, who cannot read Thai. The article touched upon on the concept of BESPOKE. The writer clear the misconception and clearly stated the difference between MADE TO MEASURE and BESPOKE. For those who are not aware, we are a bespoke tailor as our cutters cut individual pattern precisely based on the measurement, we do not work from fixed patterns like MADE TO MEASURE tailors. They described UNIVERSAL TAILORS as a worldwide tailor. They got it right. We have clients all over world, we do TRUNK  SHOW to almost all continents. And we have online orders shipping overseas everyday. They also mentioned that we are an experience tailor opening doors to client since 1985. Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Dooddot is a one-stop destination for the editorially driven social and cultural. With a creative passion and lifestyle, Dooddot reflects the creative areas by having sought out the best information, news, knowledge and creative movements around the world. Dooddot aims to update and capture the latest news and trends in the content of art & design, fashion, products, lifestyle, music & film, culture, influential people, and other aspects that are culturally-relevant today.Dooddot’s intention is not to provide their readers with mindless fashion trends and entertainment news, but Dooddot’s aim is to provide readers with a comprehensive range of contents that would be truly useful and inspiring to the reader’s knowledge and lifestyle.

We would believe we are the number 1 tailor among Bangkok expats. We boast a clientele of hundreds of expats living in Bangkok. Thus this triggered the leading expat magazine to feature a story on us specifically. Their title “BANGKOK’S BESPOKE TAILOR OF INTERNATIONAL RENOWN – UNIVERSAL TAILORS” is flattering. We completely agree with them. The magazine noticed the flattering reviews we get on Tripadvisor everyday. Those are genuine feedbacks from satisfied client. We must say we are challenged with fussy clients quite so often and it is not easy to satisfy them. We are tested time and time again and we bring our A game out to meet their needs. The writers also inform their readers the vast range of fabrics we carry, our workmanship of suits and our obsession for quality.  The magazine praised us for requiring every client to undergo atleast 3 fittings to ensure a fantastic fit. Contrary to most tailors turning around a suit within 24 hours with no or 1 fitting. We require atleast 3 working days to produce a masterpiece. Bangkok Expat Life is a local city guide of Bangkok for expats and English speaking Bangkokians. Bangkok Expat Life aims to provide the latest happenings in Bangkok. From fancy restaurants to small cafés to fitness studios to bars to news or entertainment, they aim to provide the best possible information to the readers. Their stories and editorial reaches expats, English speaking locals and people who plan to travel or move to Bangkok in future.