Wander Tide

I still remember the first time I walked into a tailor’s shop and asked about suits for women. The tailor, a kind older man in Hamilton, New Zealand, looked at me over his glasses and said, “We don’t get many women asking for suits.” That was over a decade ago. Today, that same shop has a rack of women’s samples in Italian wool and linen, and the waiting list for a consultation runs two weeks deep. The shift has been quiet but steady. Women are no longer borrowing from the m