All suits are the same

I have a question for you - how often do you wear a suit? If the answer is every day, and you're around people that wear suits every day, the little details matter. If you own one or two suits for special occasions, then you probably don't want to stay somewhat conservative. Many people on this forum have vast wardrobes and find style interesting - therefore, the little details matter.

What utter garbage.

Do you even own a suit?

Maybe don't feed the troll is the most apt comment.

1. Six that are not solid navy or grey.
2. Every week to work.
3. 3rd/4th suit i think was a cotton black Hugo red label suit.
4. I regret that the suit is black.
5. It was pretty cheap.

A suit is definitely not a suit. You can have two people in solid navy and know that one person put a hell of a lot more thought into his suit. You talk of fit like it's easy and no big deal. Perfect fit is exceedingly hard as you will notice if you creep the suit critiques.

There are massive differences is fabrics and how they are woven, how the light hits them. Fineness of wool Super 120s 30s 40s 50s and so on. Handmade details, functioning cuffs etc. Fused vs. canvassed.

You're opening up a serious can of worms by saying a suit is just a suit over here. Hahaha.

I have a few suits that are off colors, (light blue, tan linen, brown, etc) But ive found that i prefer my suits to be fairly basic. When I need color, I prefer a sportcoat and trousers.

if you think they all look the same then you don't know much about them...

and I'm not just talking suits. It's the same for anything in life. To anyone who's uneducated about what they're looking at, everything looks the same, which also makes the value equation (price to 'quality') difficult to determine...

If this isn't a troll thread;

I would have to say that as a designer, (although I have, and do design other things) I make a living with suits and enjoy working on them because the little details make a big difference. You have a garment that is basically the same fundamentally whoever makes it and I find it interesting and challenging to work within those restraints to create different looks, feelings and attitudes. Those subtle changes can make a big difference. Its a bit like typography in balancing style and function. Like typography there are lots of "rules" as well but the first rule is "if it looks right it is right".

Theres more to life than charcoal and Navy, basic wardrobe builders would be:

Light grey
Mid grey
French Navy
Summer suit in khaki
Dark Brown
Black with stripe
Dinner suit

Then you could try these in different cloths like Flannel or mohair. A light grey cloth in Mohair will have a very different look and feel from Flannel in the same color.

For non solid navy/grey I have:

1 grey with white pinstripe (with hacking pockets and a ticket pocket)
1 grey with purple windowpane (with hacking pockets and a ticket pocket)
1 navy herringbone.
1 grey micro-gingham
1 cotton khaki
1 cotton solid black
1 solid black
1 navy with white pinstripe (with a ticket pocket and small peak lapel)

I guess I have more than six...lol

Your solid greys and blues don't have to be boring, on one of my other threads I just posted you can see I'm having a solid charcoal suit being made with large peak lapels and hacking/ticket pocket.

Your problem is that you're taking a very top down view of this. Suits across all price ranges have a lot in common, that's why they can all be identified as suits. So no, the differences aren't as massive as comparing a suit to say a....fence-post. But if you're going to compare one suit to another, the small differences become large, and depending on how much of an enthusiast you become, the minute details become even bigger.

Example:

Level 1 enthusiast:

You notice when someone looks nice in a suit. You can actually determine that a suit looks good/bad on someone.

Level 2 enthusiast:

You notice specifics on how things fit generally, shoulders, pant break, cuff showing etc.

Level 3 enthusiast:

You notice and appreciate some large stylistic details on a suit, peak lapels, cuffed pants, buttonhole on the lapel.

Level 4 enthusiast:

You notice and appreciate small details on a suit, quality of cloth, pick stitching, hacking pockets, kissing buttons etc.

Level 5 enthusiast:

You notice and appreciate the minute bespoke details like grosgrain in the cuff, hand sewn buttonholes, fully functioning cuffs, how a full canvass jacket drapes vs fused.



No one here is gonna tell you that you need to be as detail conscious as what I would call a level 5, but I would advise against coming on an enthusiast site and saying a suit is just a suit. You're right, its just clothing. But for most of us here it's a hobby, and it's those small differences that make us look fantastic instead of just "nice."

A suit is a suit, like a car is a car. Depends on how you look at it.

There are huge differences, I just pulled these off my computer quick, but here are some grey suits I have made up with rather different looks from each other.

1. Eight, including a cotton khaki, silk cream and a tux.

2. Daily depends on season.

3. Light gray glen plaid and navy pinstripe.

4. Not bespoke.

5. Adds depth to my wardrobe.

What a silly thread. By your rational, all cars are the same, including a Bugatti Veyron and Smart 2x4. After all, they have the same basic looks: the box (frame, car, etc), the engine, and the wheels.

To use my own Zoolanderisms to retort to this. What is this? A thread for morons? The real thread needs to be at least....five times smarter.