I'm suffering from terrible buyers remorse right now. Why, you ask? Well, remember the last blog post about the excellent tailors in Hoi An? Because of them I learned two hard lessons today:

1. Good suits don't cost $20
2. I get easily carried away when a little Vietnamese lady brings me lots of fabrics and shows me all the wonderful things she could make for me

I'm a little embarassed to post this on the blog, but I might as well. At the end of the tailoring session I got:

• 2 suits
• 2 dress shirts
• 2 casual shirts
• 2 short sleeved linen shirts
• 1 casual blazer
• 1 linen drawstring pants
• 1 jean
• 1 shorts

Yeah exaclty -- holy crap, what were you thinking man? Lucky for me things here are cheaper, even if it's not $20 for a good suit. In the end this all came out to $430. The lady just totally sweet talked me into it. What can I say, I'm weak!

The tailor was quite the experience for me since I'd never been to one before. First we sat down around a table and decided on the styles for the various things. I originally just wanted a suit, but of course they walk you through the various other items you can get. The lady advised me on a lot of things that I wasn't sure about. There are more parts to a suit or dress shirt than I had imagined. After that we picked fabrics, then they took my measurements, and of course in the end we haggled about the price. I was able to talk her down a little bit from the original price, but not as much as I thought. Shipping all this back home should cost another $30 - $40.

Anyway, now I'm going to get a beer and relax. Hopefully the buyers remorse will pass soon! :-)