I’ve had loads of suits in my time, from cheap supermarket ones to well, slightly more expensive ones, and they’ve all looked shit on me – I just don’t suit a suit.
Yeah you can get them to suit you perfectly and good tailors can even make your body look slightly differently shaped and all that, but I firmly believe if you don’t wear them with a certain sense of arrogant entitlement they just don’t work and I’m too much of an introvert for that – perhaps that’s going overboard, but you can ALWAYS tell when someone isn’t used to wearing one, they stand, slightly red faced with a look of “what the balls is all this fuss about” about them.
I’ve always, always hated the pointlessness of them, they’re not comfortable, they’re not practical, they serve no purpose – I was glad to give them up when I left the bank in 2009 and a few weddings and funerals aside, I’ve haven’t worn one since.
I was glad to see things were moving a bit in my old place when I walked by a few weeks ago, gone are the boring black and navy pinstripes, now it’s more trousers that seem to bridge the gap between suit trousers and jeans, patterned suits with no tie and brown shoes and belts.