Thread: A suit

1. Navy blue suit. Wool, tailored if you can afford it.

2. White shirt - no button down collars.

3. Black silk four in hand tie. (Seven fold if you have a lot of coin)

4. Black high quality dress belt. No cowboy buckles.

5. Black cap toe oxfords shoes.

6. Conservative watch.

7. Leather high quyality briefcase.

Nothing that says, "Hey! Look at me, I'm a dirt road sport".

A good tailor will make you a suit for about $100 more than you will get a good one off the rack for. The rack suit will have to be altered which will make it fit better, but not perfect. That will easily eat up the $100 you saved.

When you go to a tailor, the biggest determinant in cost is the material used. Italian fabrics range in price all the way to insane. Many asian fabric makers sell comparable material for about half the cost. Talk to your tailor. Often they will have discounts on the most common colors for business (blue and gray), because that's what they make the most suits out of.

My Tailor quoted me a price of $2k min. for a suit. I dont have any of those suits haha. Alterations, so far... but no customs like that.

I don't even know where to find a tailor that makes his own suits, but any magazine/newspaper ad I've ever seen they start at $1k.

Also, probably my "nicest" suit is a wool 3-piece navy pinstripe (think old gangster movies) that I got at JC-Penny for around $300. Alterations were included. Also have a Men's Wearhouse that was around $200, again alterations included. Where do you go for a $3-400 custom made suit??