Savile Row has always relied on outworkers. The idea that all the clothes are made on the premises of each of the houses is a fallacy. A lot of coatmakers etc work form home and Soho used to be full of little workshops making clothes by hand. Has shrunk to a handful of places now which is sad.
Geives is probably a decent bet 
you will be able to get the alterations done pretty decently there too. Better than buying something online and taking it somewhere else to be adjusted, unless you know someone skilled enough to do it.
The Ben Sherman suit is more of a fashionable length than I had imagined you wearing for some reason. I wouldnāt compare to the other suits, they are Zegna cloth but made by Moss Bros. I expect Zegna suits would be a bit more expensive and better made. If you like the Ben Sherman, I would have a look at Reiss. Very good value, in pretty good fabrics.
It really depends on your figure. If you stoop, are corpulent or over erect etc, an off the peg suit will be a poor fit and more or less impossible to adjust to you. E.G. I had a young bloke come in recently for a suit who would never be able to buy ready to wear and get a good result. He had sloping shoulders, a round back and his right shoulder end was 2" lower than his left. The pattern I cut, someone altering a rtw suit would never get to because there arenāt any allowances inside the garments to get the necessary shapes to the panels.
Honestly, we dress differently these days and the suit market has totally changed. No one really knows what a good suit looks like (even the folks making them) and the way They are cut, most rtw suits are massively compromised anyway. Get something that you like that isnāt going to need huge alteration and go with that. Altering rtw clothes a lot is not possible without creating distortion and donāt let some salesman tell you it can be done. They either donāt understand or they are lying.
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Degree? Do you naturally look at the roofs of buildings as you walk down the street, or do you dance the limbo?
Ritchie must be some sort of magician, he said he could even make me look good in a whistleā¦
ā¦and I donāt mean a red, white fur edged one, you cunts 
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Broad arrows maybe?
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Oh right, no thatās not what I meant
Iāll convict you laterā¦
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Looking to update your normal look Jim?
Iām sure Ritchie Wan could zshoosh it up a bit for you 
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Are the Medals for HiFi bargains? 
āServices to bakeoffsā
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Services to -
- Sock n sandals
- Hawaiian shirts
- BBQ
- Red Wine
- Coffee roasting
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Arenāt you old enough to predate the Coca Cola image?
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Would Sir prefer something more like this?
I seem to recall @Wayward was knowcking up something fairly magical and swirly a few weeks ago. Was that for you?
went over my head, was in ernest tailoring mode. 
Hehe ā¦and what does rtw stand for? 
Ready to wear.
ftfy