Tailor Made: Chinatown's Last Tailors

Octogenarian brothers Bill Wong and Jack Wong have owned and operated Modernize Tailors in Vancouver's Chinatown for sixty of the business' ninety year existence. Despite having engineering ... Read allOctogenarian brothers Bill Wong and Jack Wong have owned and operated Modernize Tailors in Vancouver's Chinatown for sixty of the business' ninety year existence. Despite having engineering degrees, they decided on taking over the family business, started by their father, out of ... Read allOctogenarian brothers Bill Wong and Jack Wong have owned and operated Modernize Tailors in Vancouver's Chinatown for sixty of the business' ninety year existence. Despite having engineering degrees, they decided on taking over the family business, started by their father, out of circumstance. In its heyday, Modernize, once the largest tailor shop in the city, had twen... Read all