Young blood, old trades

1:1.618 x LeongT

47 Keong Saik Road

Tel: 8353-6999

Email: 11618xleongt@gmail.com

Hours: 12.30pm till late (Mon-Sat), Sundays by appointment only

THE next time you're dithering for an entry password at the door to coveted cocktail bar The Library, here's a tip: take a good look around.

For that swankily decked out, walk-in wardrobe-esque space isn't just a holding room for the bar, it is a standalone bespoke tailoring business. And it's been around for four decades.

The 10 sq m store is Jonathan Chiang's attempt to resuscitate Leong Tailors, a tailor shop that Mr Chiang's granduncle Chow Leong Choy ran in a basement unit in Hong Leong Finance Building in Raffles Place since the 1970s.

The 29-year-old media and finance graduate from Melbourne University was working in Shanghai for a relative's manufacturing company, he recalls, when a call from his granduncl…