Long wearing tailored sari — here, perhaps? (3,5)
I believe the answer is:
sri lanka
'here perhaps?' is the definition.
The answer is a location as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.
'long wearing tailored sari' is the wordplay.
'long' becomes 'lank' (I've seen this before).
'wearing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'tailored' is an anagram indicator (the letters are customised ).
'sari' with letters rearranged gives 'sria'.
'lank' placed within 'sria' is 'SRI LANKA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sri lanka that I've seen before include "Asian country, capital Colombo" , "Ceylon since 1972" , "Island country in the Indian Ocean" , "'Formerly Ceylon (3,5)'" , "Country off the southeast coast of India" .)