Hi bills 23

I'm really interested in your tailor post,

we will be stopping off in dubai for a couple of nights on way back from oz in august.Not planning to do much apart from chill in pool and admire the skyline.

Would love a link for Santoba's tailors,google search fruitless.We will only be in dubai for a three days its wide necked slim waist fit shirts we are after(my partner and i both have tall wide necked slim waisted rugby playing sons) and the only gift they have asked for from our travels are a couple of shirts that are slim fit, we may be better to send measurements and order on line.

thanks hope you can help

Hi Bills23 ,

Thanks for your informative post. Without wishing to be rude, can you please give an idea of indicative costs for this tailor ? The shirts sound particularly interesting - would the compare in quality to Thomas Pink perhaps ? Hoping to visit Dubai in June so Santoba sounds like a must visit !

Hi Bills

Can I ask in what way were Dreamgirl Tailors rude? My family and I have used them without complaint for over 30 years and I cannot understand why they would be rude to you. I will certainly let them know on my next visit that they have let themselves down.

I feel a bit responsible as I always recommend Dreamgirls on here, as like I mentioned, no problems for a very long time.

This is a response to jaynie_d :

This is the link to the tailors, but the website is under constrcution so wont be of much use.

http://santobatailors.com/

The guys can definitly tailor the shirts in that space of time, but you must visit them early on in your trip to allow time for the shirts to be made.

Im assuming your sons wont be with you, so what you may want to do is get their measurements beforehand.

If you look on the web, im sure you can get details of how and what to measure for a shirt.

Hope this helps

This is a repy to Dizz :

The cost of the shirts is about £30 and that is inclusive of the material. The price may be slightly cheaper, depending on your size.

For the suits your talking about £100 for the tailoring, and anything between £75 to £200 for the material. I chose some very good material and it cost me about £150.

Hope that helps.

This is a response to hannahengland :

Hannah, upon visiting Dream Girls at first I was told they didnt have enough time, to which I said no problem. This was quickly follwed on by someone else saying that No, they did have time and they could do it. However they said that the material I had was not enough so I said no probs I would get some more.

When leaving the shop, one of the guys said to the other, "How in the hell are you going to make a suit in that short space of time", to which the other guy responded "Not to worry, they are only foreigners, what do they know about suits."....

Now this conversation took place in the Hindi language, which I am fluent in and as you can imagine really put me off returning to the place.

This may have been a one off, so I hope my expereince doesnt put anyone else off.

Thaks Bills 23 you have been a great help.... well sort of.....

So much for chillin by the pool and shirts for the boys...

Now the OH thinks he wants half a dozen, thick neck thin waist syndrome.

Maybe i,ll let him go off in a taxi and i,ll jst have another cocktail!!!

Well Bills have to say I'm gobsmacked, I've never known them to be anything other than very polite and curteous. My Dad speaks several languages and he has never complained about them talking behind peoples backs. Then again he lives in Dubai so as you say they may have thought you were a dumb tourist.

Hi Bills23

Thanks very much indeed for the info - sounds good to me !

Best take a little bit more in spends I think .

Going to Dubai in August and am planning to get a number of shirts made. Read most of the posts on here regarding tailors and due to time constraints (only there 6 days) plan to visit Santobas tailors the first day to get the shirts made. Does anybody have an Email address or telephone number for these tailors that I can use to contact them on?. The Email address/link listed in the post seems to default to a more general listing.

Thanks in advance for your help.