Thursday 14 June 2012

suits that are different

This suit above was bought from a charity shop and is one of the few single breasted that I like , its three button with the top button hiddenFoto: ¿Te atreves con este modelo?; Window pane by Hackett FW 2012-13.-
Have a ready-to-wear suit altered
Most men that buy suits don't have them altered, but for £50-£100 you can make the suit look twice as good and twice as expensive. Always put that money aside in your budget when buying ready-to-wear. Make sure the neck and shoulders fit well when you try it on; don't worry about the waist (trousers or jacket) or length of sleeves or legs. Then get all those points altered - and make sure it's done by someone good, preferably a tailor, so the waist adjustment is worked effectively into the chest and skirt. 


2. Button your jacket
There's no point having a suit that fits if you don't button it up. When you're standing, it should be buttoned. Always the waist button (top on a two-button suit, middle on a three-button), never the bottom Scott parker wears an m and s with loake shoes but its all too much of an office suit .button and only the top if it's a three-button suit with no roll: remember 'sometimes, always, never' when looking down a three-button jacket.here is another suit that looks like an office one


3. Made to measure and bespoke is worth the money
In the UK you may find that a ready-to-wear suit costs around £400, made to measure is £600 and bespoke over £1000. Each one is worth that money in terms of how it will fit, aside from questions of quality or longevity. Some body shapes get more out of MTM or bespoke, given their lack of average proportions, but I maintain that it is worth the money for anyone. Spend your money on these levels of fit rather than on bigger labels or more expensive cloths: a bigger Super 100s number just means it's thinner.


the above suit was done in a saville row tailor and cost two grand, we can only wonder why someone would want to spend that money on on one of the dullest office suit results possible.I mean everyone to their own style but if you are spending huge amounts of money why would you get something that resmbles a good off the peg m and s suit, you'd try and go for a bit of "jazz" wouldn't you?
this on the other hand is anything but office.
4. Spend money on shoes
Whenever you see someone in a nice suit, the next thing you do is look down. And their shoes nearly always disappoint. Too many sharp suits are worn with sharp (read pointy) shoes. This is largely because cheap oxfords and derbys put men off and they don't think it's worth spending hundreds of pounds this guy writes a great blog on shoes, he really knows his business but in my opinion we have another office suit here
the only thing that this guy is wearing that makes the whole look stand out is the shoe, the rest is a bit normal in my opinion.
on shoes. It is. Spend at least half the money you're spending on your suit on a good pair of shoes. A bespoke suit deserves Edward Green, not Barker but Barker Herring and Loake have really good shoes, check out the Herring website. this suit is totally wrong in that a two button front belongs to the long lapelled semi drape of the late 30's  early 40's.


5. Have some colour, somewhere
If you don't like ties, that's fine. But for god's sake find a way to wear some colour somewhere else. A pocket handkerchief, a cardigan, anything. There's nothing more depressing that seeing a group of young men 
in my opinion nothing is worse than maroon paired with b lack. maroon is to be avoided always in trousers along with bottle green, it .another silly thing here is the narrowness of the trousers which creates a kind of norman wisdom look making the shoes look like fins.Pinned Image


This Italian has a nice suit, he's got it right, if he needed a tie he could just slip one on, maybe a slim Prince of Wales in grey.Hes cool , simple and has flair unlike the great shoe maker above whose maroon trousers  look in my opinion fussy and strange.
Outside a pub where everyone is wearing a dark suit, a blue shirt and plain shoes. You all look the same and you all look dull. Find another way to introduce colour or, reconsider the tie. There are few enough it doesnt get worse than this, maroon with grey and black.



























excuses for a man to wear coloured silk around his neck without fear of ostracism. Take advantage of it.there nowt wrong with brown but it never goes with blue, try and a white shirt and pink tie, bringss the brown out great

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