We must be doing something right,” he says. While there is a gap among designers, wherein a generation or two may not know how to make the terno, the terno is part of Slim’s education.

Designing and making a terno is a prerequisite for graduation at Slim’s, where Higgins, son of postwar designer Salvacion Lim Higgins, is codirector.

Sleeves show the traditional proportions of the terno from Slim’s Fashion and Arts School collection ‘Balintawak’ At the Ternocon, 30 participants from 17 provinces were selected from the ...