george zimmer: most tailors today are immigrants in new america.he american dream often starts with tailoring and then subsequent generations go to college. >> i mean this with all respect. are these your revenge? george zimmer: absolutely not. we are way too busy to even think about revenge. there is no reason why my former company could not even avail themselves of our service. m: explain how the service would work. what would be the process? you can on the web, and it is being built into an app in 30 days, it is very simple. indicate visit code where you want the taylor to come, the day and the hour, and the software we have created matches tailors with clients based on that information. >> and they come to your home. pimm: does it come your -- george zimmer: you select the gender of your taylor as well as the picture, to house. mentioned men's wearhouse acquired that line of that company. they have also been very aggressive on recording the younger male, the younger male customer. you know, again, i am just saying, ousted you, perhaps in your m

i was fired. >> reporter: but george zimmer didn't shrink into the sunset. he is unzipping a second act. >> i thought i don't want after a 40 year career, somebody else to write my retirement. i would like to create my own retirement. >> reporter: this is his start- up. z taylors, he calls it the uber of tayloring. instead of starting with a sickle store, he has a whole fleet of tailers on your smartphone. >> there are billions of dollars of merchandise in the closets across america in need of tailor. >> it is just inconvenient. i try to build things that fit. >> reporter: there are 600 tailors so far snipping, snapping, and buttonholing with five years experience, tested and background check. george zimmer thinks by doing this. >> we spend more money maintaining our cars than we do ourselves. maybe we should change that. >> reporter: he wants america, tech world, to look crisp again. though he won't say the phrase he made famous. >> i can't remember what the phrase was. i wish somebody would give me a hint. >> reporter: andria borba, kpix5. >> z tailors has

george zimmer is the founder of men's wearhouse. no doubt you know him best from his tv commercials in which he guarantees you will like the way you look. men's wearhouse grew into a multibillion dollar community. and then the board dismissed him from his own company. and then he created his own start-up. z tailors sends tailors to your house or office. george zimmer is disrupting the cutting edge of clothing. after you are properly tailors, we assume you will once again like the way you look. you can't tell people they'll like the way they look because that's the other company's catch phrase. you've got a new catch phrase? >> everybody's asked me about that one. and we are working on one, but it's not trademarked yet. >> so you can't tell us. >> let me say it this way. when you're working with hundreds or thousands of tailors, what they really want to know is is there job security? and i tell them zimmer's got your back. >> like that very much. >> let's spend a money on the awkward thing. what was it like to build a business like t

>>reporter: but george zimmer didn't slink into the sunset. inside the old department store i magnet in downtown oakland, zimmer is unzipping a second act. >> i thought i don't want after a 40-year career somebody else to write my retirement. i'd like to create my own retirement. >>reporter: this is his startup, zee tailors. he calls it the uber of tailoring. instead of starting with a single store, he's got a whole fleet of tailors standing by on your smart phone. the tailor comes to you. >> there are billions of dollars of merchandise in the closets across america in need of tailoring. >> it's just inconvenient. i try to buy things that fit. >>reporter: there are 600 tailors so far, slipping, snapping and button holing, all with five years experience, tested and background check. zimmer thinks by zipping up a whole new market of sharp- dressed men and women: >> we spend more money maintaining our cars than we do ourselves. maybe we should change that. >>reporter: he wants america, even the tech world to look crisp again, though he won't say t

thing that jumped out to me is i grew up with these iconic commercials, men's wearhouse founder george zimmerot ousted last year making a comeback. i think this is great idea because i'm someone who hates to go to the tailor, uber forte lors. what's he trying to do right here? >> this is a fascinating story. this is him trying to deliver his revenge cold or, indeed, he is on to something here. he's become something of a tech entrepreneur with that gravelly voice and gray beard. the 66-year-old decided it's tailors to go. so the idea here is that you go to the website or you use the app and if you need some emergency tailoring done or maybe you want to buy a new suit, you go through the service, and the tailor will come to you. now i think this is very exciting, it's very interesting, particularly for those in the world of men's fashion who don't have much of a clue as to what they should be wearing and how they should look. so getting good advice from a tailor would probably help you. this service will make it very easy to do. i guess he's described it as the uber of tailoring if you like. it

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. >>> george zimmer gained fame from men's warehouse. you're going like the way that you look.. >> he hopes that his business will take the art of tayloring into the 20th century. he sends taylors directly to customers. had he is the found er and chairman. welcome. >> good morning. >> we're the uber of tayloring. you tell us where to come. you give us the day and hour. >> does this mean that a lot are looking for work and go? >> we expect to have a thousand by the summer and 1,500 by tepidhe enof the year. they're not just regarded inngstores. the hours are not resistant. this is a way for taylors to enter the 21est century. >> i think that this is a great idea. >> there was a sense that i had that tailors needed somebody. i am a cross behind the god father or the pipe piper. they trust me. they feel that i have their back. that's one of the things that i think is very important to hourly workers. not just their wages. >> yeah. >> but the con sis tentysistency. >> you see the style is changes and men do not have to wear a sult suit to work. is there a need out there? >> yeah th

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. >> reporter: after george zimmer split from men's wearhouse he saw an opening to trance former presidenterts point out not every in-home, on-demand idea is a money maker. the one that made me think you have to be kidding is a service where it takes out your garbage for you. >> dirty laundry is a different story. for people like brandon who uses an app called washio to clean his clothes and drop them off. >> it's convenient. i work a ton, travel quite a bit. by the time i come home it's one less thing to worry about. >> reporter: that can change the game. like it did for big baby. can you dance in this? >> as long as i can dance, move my shoulders, it's fitting just right. >> reporter: uber for everything? for davis it's a slam dunk. nbc news los angeles. >> what's the cost of convenience? are these things expensive? >> probably more expensive than if you had gone to the tailor or drove yourself. but you pay for the convenience. >> yeah. >> factor in the cost of your time. >> you need an uber for uber soon. givinging you a list of things. >> yes. >> coming up next we have one half of the