Collin Suiting

Collin Suiting's own product menu puts HochzeitsAnzug first under "Unser Angebot," but the shop doesn't stop at the groom. Further down the same menu sits Trauzeugen Anzug, a dedicated best-man line with its own page, its own colourways and its own price list. The page's pitch for it is specific rather than generic: "Trauzeuge steht nicht im Mittelpunkt, aber er darf nicht untergehen" (the best man doesn't take centre stage, but he shouldn't disappear either), and it promises "keine Kopie des Bräutigams" (no copy of the groom) rather than a set of matching, identical suits. For a couple wondering whether one Zurich tailor can dress the whole party rather than just the man at the altar, that's a direct answer: yes, and it's treated as its own commission rather than an upsell tacked onto the groom's order.

The best-man page repeats one phrase across several of its listed options: "Als Trauzeugen-Gruppe könnt ihr..." (as a group of best men, you can...), offered in named colourways such as light grey, mustard yellow and sky blue, so a cluster of groomsmen flying in from different cities can order the same look as a batch rather than negotiating individually. Prices sit against each named style rather than as one flat figure, running from CHF 680 for the plainer options up to CHF 1240 for an olive-green style listed on the same page. Every suit on it, the site says, "entsteht nach individuellen Massen, mit präziser Schnittführung und persönlicher Beratung im Atelier in Zürich" (is made to individual measurements, with precise cutting and personal consultation in the Zurich atelier), so group ordering doesn't mean off-the-rack sizing.

Behind every one of those commissions sits the same process the homepage lays out in 4 steps. You book a personal appointment at the Zurich showroom on Kasernenstrasse 15, a 5-minute walk from Sihlpost. Measurements are taken in person and you choose fabric from what the FAQ calls "eine Auswahl von über 1'500 Textilien," wool, silk, linen and Harris Tweed among them, in yarn weights it lists from 80 through 180. Those measurements and the chosen cloth then go to what the site names as its own tailoring workshop in Bangkok, where, in its own words, "erfahrene Schneider Ihren Anzug gemäss Schweizer Qualitätansprüchen" finish the suit (experienced tailors finish your suit to Swiss quality standards). When it comes back to Zurich, a Nachprobe, a second in-person fitting, is built into the price: "Bei der Nachprobe wird der Massanzug im Detail angepasst." The FAQ is blunt about why that step exists at all: even with professional measuring and hand tailoring, "gibt es keine Garantie, dass der Anzug auf Anhieb perfekt passt," there's no guarantee the suit fits perfectly the first time, so the second fitting is where it actually gets dialled in. This is made-to-measure, not fully bespoke: the pattern is cut abroad from your measurements rather than drafted and hand-cut on the Zurich premises, and the site never claims otherwise.

How long it actually takes, and where the site disagrees with itself

The FAQ gives a real number for standard turnaround: "innerhalb von ein bis zwei Monaten nach Anprobe und Stoffauswahl," 1 to 2 months after the fitting and fabric choice, which is the figure to plan a wedding date around. For anyone who can't wait that long, the same answer offers an express route, "innerhalb von 14 Tagen." The pricing page describes the express option differently, though: it prices an "Express-Zuschlag von CHF 150.-" against a stated turnaround of "7-10 Arbeitstagen," 7 to 10 working days rather than 14. The pages don't agree with each other, and neither has apparently been corrected, so a couple planning to fly in for one trip should get the exact date confirmed directly with the atelier rather than trusting either published figure to the day.

The starting prices carry the same kind of disagreement. The general Preise page lists suits "ab CHF 499.-" for business, a wedding suit "ab CHF 580.-," a made-to-measure shirt "ab CHF 65.-" and a complete smoking set "ab CHF 850.-." The dedicated HochzeitsAnzug page, the one built specifically for this occasion, prices the same categories higher across the board: CHF 590 for the base suit, CHF 680 for business, CHF 70 for the shirt, CHF 890 for the smoking set, and a full "Hochzeitsanzug komplett Set inkl. Weste, Masshemd und Fliegen Set" (wedding suit complete set including waistcoat, shirt and bow tie) starting at CHF 1150. Since the wedding page is the one built for this exact purchase, its numbers are the ones worth checking a quote against, but confirm whichever figure applies before committing to a date. On the plus side, the Preise page is specific about what a quoted figure includes: "Alle unsere Preise sind immer inklusive Mehrwertsteuer," VAT included throughout, with "keine versteckten Kosten für Verpackung, Lieferung oder Zoll & Steuer," no hidden packaging, delivery or customs charges, and payment split as 70% deposit at order and 30% on delivery.

A rental price list that scales with what you borrow

The rental side runs on its own page and its own terms, separate from the made-to-measure catalogue. A rental suit starts at "CHF 170.- inkl. MwSt kleine Anpassungen und Reinigung," small adjustments and cleaning included, and the deposit scales with what you're borrowing: CHF 200 for an ordinary rental suit, CHF 400 for a wedding suit, CHF 450 for a tailcoat. The suit has to come back "spätestens zwei Tage nach dem vereinbarten Termin," at most 2 days after the agreed date, and the site's own advice is to book the fitting "max. 1 bis 3 Woche im Voraus," a matter of weeks rather than months out. One real limit worth flagging before you book: on a rented jacket, "kann man keine gesamte Länge sowie Schulterbreite ändern," full-length and shoulder-width changes aren't offered, so getting close to your size still matters even with alterations included. A couple of the shop's Google reviews back the rental side up directly. Frank Aeschbacher calls it "Easy to rent a tuxedo," and a reviewer named Sydney describes her boyfriend renting a suit there that came out "absolut perfekt" and drew compliments all evening. Across the shop's 124 Google reviews, rental and made-to-measure customers show up side by side rather than the rental option reading like an afterthought bolted onto a tailoring business.

The family behind the counter, and the gap in English

Collin Suiting's own history page dates the business to 1976, when Amrit Lal Sood, a former soldier who had emigrated from India to Thailand, opened his first tailoring atelier across from the Hotel Royal Cliff in Pattaya. His daughter Rita, growing up in the business from 1979 by the page's own account, opened the Zurich atelier in 2014 and now runs it as Collin Suiting's Geschäftsführerin. By the page's own 2016 note, Amrit was 82 and still choosing fabrics on the Thailand side. These Thai locations aren't the same place, worth being precise about: the 1976 shop was in Pattaya, while the process copy elsewhere on the site names the current cutting workshop as being in Bangkok, a different city, decades later. The same about page also states that measurements are taken in the Zurich atelier "sowie an bestimmten Tagen in Bern," on certain days in Bern too, though the separate Kontakt page lists only the Zurich address, so a Bern appointment is worth confirming directly with the shop rather than assuming it's always on offer.

What the site doesn't offer, on any page checked, is English. There's no language switcher anywhere in the navigation, and no page states whether a fitting, a consultation or the paperwork can run in English rather than German. For a couple flying in with no German, that's the one gap worth resolving with a phone call or email before a fitting trip gets booked around it.

None of this changes what the shop is good at on paper: a named best-man product that treats the wedding party as seriously as the groom, a documented supply chain running from Zurich measurements to a Bangkok cutting room, a second fitting built into the price rather than charged as an extra, and a rental counter that's cheaper and faster than ordering when a return trip for a Nachprobe isn't in the schedule. Bring the figures from the wedding-specific page rather than the general price list, ask which express timeline actually applies to your date, and settle the language question before flights are booked.