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Post by jhawkr on Feb 27, 2021 13:36:39 GMT -5
I have several blazers/sport coats that I will wear with slacks or jeans. I have one good suit. A Hart/Schaffner/Marx, (a Chicago Taylor), when a suit is required. I always bought suits at the 1/2 price sale at Dillard’s, an upscale department store. The last suit is grey wool, conservative cut, so it will not likely go out of style. I think it was about $650 out the door.
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Post by Ragtop on Feb 27, 2021 13:53:07 GMT -5
I have several blazers/sport coats that I will wear with slacks or jeans. I have one good suit. A Hart/Schaffner/Marx, (a Chicago Taylor), when a suit is required. I always bought suits at the 1/2 price sale at Dillard’s, an upscale department store. The last suit is grey wool, conservative cut, so it will not likely go out of style. I think it was about $650 out the door. Dillard's has incredible sales. I miss having one near. I hate shopping for clothes, but I like saving money. |
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Post by woody on Feb 27, 2021 19:01:24 GMT -5
I have several blazers/sport coats that I will wear with slacks or jeans. I have one good suit. A Hart/Schaffner/Marx, (a Chicago Taylor), when a suit is required. I always bought suits at the 1/2 price sale at Dillard’s, an upscale department store. The last suit is grey wool, conservative cut, so it will not likely go out of style. I think it was about $650 out the door. I do the blazer/ sport coat thing as well. Especially in autumn. I have a bunch of tweed jackets I have found at thrift stores and wear them with jeans and boots. Friends wives are always complementing me on "dressing up" while their husbands look like unmade beds. All it takes is a nice jacket, a pressed shirt, shined boots and a smile. |
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Post by Rick Knight on Feb 28, 2021 8:52:30 GMT -5
A couple of years ago, at a niece's wedding. If I wear a suit these days, someone important is getting married or buried.
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Post by jefe46 on Feb 28, 2021 21:33:15 GMT -5
Not since my funeral.
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Post by roly on Mar 1, 2021 16:36:21 GMT -5
1975.
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 1, 2021 17:15:27 GMT -5
Was it a 3-piece? I bought a 3-piece suit that year. Four pieces, if you count the extra pair of pants, which were plaid. The vest was reversible, the reverse side being plaid to match the second pair of pants. I usually wore it as navy-navy-navy. |
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Post by Stratluvr on Mar 1, 2021 19:48:39 GMT -5
Five years ago for a funeral. The ironic thing is I’m in the suit business.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 1, 2021 19:49:18 GMT -5
Five years ago for a funeral. The ironic thing is I’m in the suit business. You’re in the suit business and don’t wear a suit?? |
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Post by HenryJ on Mar 1, 2021 19:57:33 GMT -5
Five years ago for a funeral. The ironic thing is I’m in the suit business. You’re in the suit business and don’t wear a suit?? Aren't you in the suit business also, Mike?  |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 1, 2021 20:05:44 GMT -5
You’re in the suit business and don’t wear a suit?? Aren't you in the suit business also, Mike? Not since March 12, 2020 I’m not!! |
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Post by langford on Mar 1, 2021 20:52:05 GMT -5
This morning. In the shower. Then I got dressed.
As for the suits, I enjoy wearing them. I suspect that's because I've never had to. Putting one on is a rare treat.
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Post by JDC on Mar 1, 2021 23:13:42 GMT -5
Other than the solitary exception of attending my guitar tech's wedding reception (6 years ago?) the last time I wore a suit was during the final show I played at the end of a June 2012 cruise ship contract.
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Post by gsouth on Mar 2, 2021 15:12:53 GMT -5
A few months ago at my grandmother's funeral. Before that was October 2019 for a job interview. I do have to wear a tie for my day job but I am not required to wear a suit jacket.
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Post by Seldom Seen on Mar 2, 2021 18:09:16 GMT -5
I’m SOL. I donated my last suit and a few sports jackets a few weeks ago. It had been years since my mom’s funeral and I’ve lost eighty ponds since then. I need to get cracking and purchase another. All I have is pair of slacks and a few dress shirts to fall back on
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Post by Laker on Mar 2, 2021 18:11:57 GMT -5
35 years ago!
I swore I’d never wear one of those damned soul trappers ever again.
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Post by FlyonNylon on Mar 2, 2021 18:31:49 GMT -5
About three years ago for a Valentine’s cruise iirc. Have attended several weddings and other semi formal events since but all dress-shirt/tie appropriate.
Nothing really against suits; it’s kind of fun dressing up but my work attire is basically pajamas, jeans and a button down are perfectly acceptable club attire around here and spend most of the summer in boardshorts anyway so rarely have a reason to wear one.
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Post by Stratluvr on Mar 2, 2021 19:28:50 GMT -5
I sell them online. The business runs like a warehouse so wearing a suit wouldn’t be a good idea.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 2, 2021 19:29:40 GMT -5
I sell them online. The business runs like a warehouse so wearing a suit wouldn’t be a good idea. Makes sense. I’d say to put an ad for your place in the Classifieds, but it doesn’t seem like this crowd is buying a lot of suits. |
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Post by justin on Mar 3, 2021 12:15:53 GMT -5
I know to the day because I searched "wedding" on my iPhone's pictures and up came photos of the last time I wore a suit. It was August 5, 2018. It was hot as balls that day and man was it miserable. It was an Indian wedding and luckily at their family gathering the next day I got to wear some Indian Pajamas. Much more comforable! The thing about a lot fancy events is depending on the weather, either the dude wearing the suit or the lady in the dress will be uncomfortable. I've been to chilly outdoor events where I was glad to be wearing a suit while my wife suffered.
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Post by mroulier on Mar 3, 2021 16:29:36 GMT -5
The week between Xmas and New Year's - 2019. We went to our favorite snooty French restaurant to celebrate Christmas. If you wanna count 'non-traditional' suits I wore my 1790's era 3-piece suit (long coat, vest and knee breeches) to the George Washington Birthnight Ball, February of 2020 at Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, for a night of fine dining and period-correct dancing!
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 3, 2021 16:57:01 GMT -5
The week between Xmas and New Year's - 2019. We went to our favorite snooty French restaurant to celebrate Christmas. If you wanna count 'non-traditional' suits I wore my 1790's era 3-piece suit (long coat, vest and knee breeches) to the George Washington Birthnight Ball, February of 2020 at Gadsby's Tavern in Alexandria, for a night of fine dining and period-correct dancing! Pictures should not be optional for some posts. |
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Post by LesTele on Mar 5, 2021 18:53:38 GMT -5
That 1790’s stuff is all very well.
It’s not as nifty as Scotsman in a kilt!
No pictures. Sorry.
Edited to add. The kilt get up. It’s not a suit. Matching separates perhaps?
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Post by tahitijack on Mar 7, 2021 12:01:10 GMT -5
Christmas eve mass 2019, then out to dinner afterwards. A few years back I did some closet cleaning and tossed business and formal attire. Of course within months we received a wedding invitation, so back shopping for a modern fitting suit. I have to admit I like the look as a famous suit sales guy once said.
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Post by mroulier on Mar 9, 2021 16:49:23 GMT -5
 Ok...this is not from 2020, but 2019. Colonial Williamsburg. Myself and the wife flanking the man who portrays Thomas Jefferson! |
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 9, 2021 21:53:24 GMT -5
^ I was not wrong! Awesome picture.
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