I Will Never Wear a Business Suit Again
Buying a $1600 suit that I took home and never wore changed me, and the uncommon lesson may do the same for you too.
Yesterday, I picked up a brand new tailored suit that was made to measure. This is not the first time either.
Since 2011, I have been buying tailored suits to wear to work and have not once been happy with any of them without understanding why.
The reason I order tailored suits is that I’m a six-foot dude with big ears, strange measurements, a slim waist, and one odd-shaped rib that sticks out and looks terrible in a suit. You see my dilemma? (The current tailor also pointed out that I have one arm longer than the other and uneven shoulders — so basically I’m a cyclops).
At the start of the tailoring process, the shop owner asked me where I’d been before. He wanted my history with tailored business suits and I didn’t realize I had such a long list of fashion tragedies.
There was the suit from a bespoke tailor in the alley.
There was the suit from the online-only store of broken dreams that made me look thinner than an electrical wire.
There was the very high-priced suit from the man with the office you can never find in a skyscraper.
