| What does your suit look like? | |
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| Jan 16, 2008 11:33 | #11   |
 | What's right for Bill Gates is right for me. |
| Jan 16, 2008 21:29 | #12 |
| Back home in England I have plenty of suits. Mostly grey or dark blue pin-stripes. A couple of plain, dark blue suits. All either pure wool or a wool/cashmere mix. Some three-piece suits, some two piece. I've never gone to work in casual clothes, despite the trend in British businesses these days for what they call "dress down Friday". I just can't get into a professional frame of mind if I'm not in a suit. There seems to my mind to be some link between casual attire and casual attitudes. At least, this was true in the places where I worked. I can't say whether my colleagues were particularly unprofessional before leaping at the chance to come to work in jeans and t-shirts, or whether the wearing of casual clothes at the office somehow came to influence their attitudes towards work. Maybe I'm just a bit old-fashioned. I'm sure business can be done these days in far more relaxed ways (and far more relaxed clothes) than was possible in the past. I remember being very careful to get the details of the suit right before my first job. Avoiding modern detailing (and running a mile from shiny suits) meant going to a traditional tailor. They can get the trouser leg to fall with just a single kink before resting, with turn-ups, on the fourth lace of a (properly laced), hand-made, Oxford pattern shoe. They can get all the details perfectly right - the way a suit should be. Then I started my first day at work and discovered all my colleagues had cheap suits that looked fairly respectable but into which no thought what-so-ever had been put. It turned out that the suit didn't reflect much on the personality of the wearer. Depsite the fact that most of my colleagues had suits that I would consider an affront to professionalism, there were some really hard-working, serious people in amongst that group. Here in China I have one tailored English suit that I brought with me, and one Chinese suit that I picked up for 250 yuan. The Chinese suit is really cheap, but not at all bad-looking. It gives me a real guilty pleasure to wear it. I never feel truly professional in it, but I know I look good in it. Besides business suits I also have a morning suit (for weddings, garden parties and the like), a dinner jacket ('tuxedo') suit (for cocktail parties and evenings at the theatre), a plain black suit (for church), and a white tie tails suit (for banquets, balls and for looking fantastic). |
| Jan 19, 2008 02:43 | #13 |
| GUEST28216 | If the suit is shiny, chances are that it's NOT 100% wool. Probably has a percentage of polyester in it and that would explain the glossy sheen in the fabric. It's of low quality and not a desirable material to be used in quality mens suits. Look for wool that's marked "super 100's" at the VERY least. |
| Feb 14, 2008 03:43 | #14 |
| GUEST2132 | "What's right for Bill Gates is right for me. " Hehe, you are not as rich as Bill Gates? Can you afford the suit Gates wears? |
| Feb 17, 2008 21:11 | #15 |
| From what I've heard Bill Gates wears ready-to-wear suits, just like the average Joe. |
| Feb 26, 2008 20:51 | #16 |
| Quote: In the USA, we call them, the polyester guy. Glossy hair, gleaming suit, and shiny face = a polyester guy. A proper slang! I like it. " A man is not a Christmas tree". This message is intended to be forwared to ladies, right? I would like to know what ladies about it, because very frequently many ladies complains that their hubbies don't dress elegantly. |
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