I was walking behind three business people as they headed to a meeting, one woman and two men, and none of their suits fitted correctly.
The woman’s suit was a nice deep brown colour that suited her colouring and it fitted well across her shoulders and down her back, but the jacket sleeves were just too long, they brushed her knuckles. Combined with pants that were just a bit too short to be wearing with her heels, the whole outfit went from what should have been very nice, to just not finished.
The first man’s jacket was too big for him and gaped at the back, even though he had the button done up. The shoulders looked the right width, but once again his sleeves were too long, hitting his hands well past the wrist bone and without showing his cuff at all. His pants were just a bit too short, showing his socks as he walked (thankfully in a dark colour).
The other man’s jacket fitted him well at the back, but his sleeves were too long as well. His pants were even shorter than the first guy’s, just barely touching the top of his shoe at the ankle. They could have been 5cm longer with no problem at all.
As a group, these little defects were exacerbated and together they presented a group of people who could have tried harder.
Remember a suit doesn’t have to be expensive to fit. You can buy a very cheap suit* (like the one P bought for his last round of job hunting) and then make sure it fits well. The pants we bought were the right length but I needed to take the sleeves up buy 3cm or so. Trust me, it makes all the difference.
*Ok, I know an expensive suit would be better, but it just seems silly to buy a AU$500 suit to wear 3 times in 3 years. Cheap suit material ages fast, but at this wear ratio he could still have the same suit for 20 years.
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3 chic comments:
I agree with you totally. Suits very often need to be altered to look great, but people rarely take the time and money to do so. Whether you buy a cheap suit or an expensive one it is definitely worth the money because an ill-fitting suit is not worth wearing.
It's the difference between smartness & scruffiness!
Bugeting an extra 20 bucks towards getting your sleeve taken up seems like a bargain to me (or learning how to do it yourself). I saw a girl once (admittedly she was very small person) with sleeves on a conventional jacket that came to her fingertips. That's just too long.
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