There are those who are obliged to wear tailoring, those who regard it as a pleasure and then there’s Alan See. For over a decade, the native Hongkonger (one half of acclaimed ‘international classic’ clothier The Armoury) has cut a dashing figure within the men’s clothing industry, traveling to Japan, Italy, Britain and many places besides in pursuit of fabric — what many obsessives regard as the very soul of sartorial clothing. Despite the tribulations of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we dropped by Alan’s original shop (located in Hong Kong’s historic Pedder Building) for an after-hours yarn. What follows is a fascinating conversation about the parallels between