NEW YORK—“Sartoria Eleganza” has a nice ring to it. In Italian, “sartoria” means tailoring and “eleganza,” elegance.
Nick prefers to be called by his first name, but sometimes people will call out to him, a friendly: “Hey, Mr. Eleganza! How are you doing today?” Even strangers will ask the tailor, who is always impeccably dressed, “Where did you get your suit?” Nick then gives them his business card.
“Presentation is number one. I get a lot of compliments, even when I walk down the street,” Nick said in his tailoring atelier, Sartoria Eleganza, on East 56th Street.
A royal blue suit jacket placed on a mannequin stood by the three-way mirror of the atelier. Nick showed the double-tracking and single-tracking stitches on the shoulders, the collar, and the pockets of the jacket. The buttonholes were hand-stitched with a thick thread inside to create volume.
