Changes… NYC visit postponed
Funny how life can be quite in the way of itself sometimes. During the last few weeks, things have been pretty hectic for me. A number of circumstances were not exactly in my favour, and there was a fair bit of stuff to sort out. Also the reason why I haven’t been bloggin much lately. Not wanting to bother you with my personal life, I won’t go into any details. Suffice it to say I’ve been real busy getting things straightened out, and now that it’s done, things are looking good again.
The point of this, is that I am now again working every day and I’m exceedingly busy. And there we discover a bit of a problem. Regular readers and subscribers to my newsletter will know, I had been planning to visit New York City, with my tape-measure in my pocket and my swatch-bunches in my suitcase. I was quite looking forward to the experience, and curious to see how business would be for a dutch tailor in New York. So I had booked the flight and hotel, but as the disorder of the last weeks slowly resolved itself into neat little packages of clarity and purpose, it became clear that going to the States at this point in time would be a very debatable proposition.
Now some people might say it’s a bad idea to plan a trip and then cancel it, and indeed this has been a source of concern for me. It might make a stange impression on people.
But I realise that it would be a worse idea by far to come over at this moment. For one thing, I wouldn’t know where to find the time to do the jobs for those people in the US who’d order a suit or a shirt. I really am quite, quite busy. So in the end, I guess I’d harm myself more by going to America and failing to deliver, then by cancelling and going instead in January or sometime later. So there you have it.
It’s of course rather a disappointment for the people who want a suit from me, but I simply can’t justify taking on jobs that I know will take forever to finish. After all I’m not the only bespoke tailor, and I’d rather have people be happy with another tailor, instead of having them become impatient with me.
Once things change, and I will be able to start dealing with possible US clients, I will let you know. I guess it will be somewhere in the first few months of the new year, but I’m not going to promise anything until I’ve finished the work I’ve got to do at this moment.
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