The assumption runs deep: that serious tailoring happens elsewhere and arrives here by shipment. It is a habit inherited rather than examined.
Walk into a workshop on the mainland and the assumption does not survive the first hour. The hands are trained, the patterns are drafted, the finishing is done the slow way because there is no faster way that holds.
What has been missing is not skill. It is the packaging around the skill - the photography, the sizing consistency, the promise that what arrives matches what was shown.
