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American style clothes brands:
BB, RL (Polo in every mall, BL in the Vitacura Shop). The variety is quite limited and the prices aren't as competitive as in the US.
There are several tailors, my favourite is Atilio Andreoli but he only uses the cloth he sells (Loro Piana). Suits cost around 2.000 US$. Other tailors(sastrerÃa) are Ugarte (shirts are 150 US$) and Cubillos.
There is a cloth seller in Isidora Goyenechea who has a big cloth collection (Castro Donoso). You can ask for directions over there (an average tailor will charge from 500 US$ for a suit excluding the cloth).
Luxury brands (Zegna, Hermes, S. Ferragamo) can be found in Alonso De Cordova.
There are small shops in the malls that carry a nice selection. A lot of the chilean life is carried in the malls since there aren't many things to do in Santiago.
Standard business clothing consists in a striped charcoal suit and black shoes (oxford/derby).
As someone stated before the use sweaters under the suit is fairly common, but I would avoid it if I was working in an elitist context. Coats are uncommon due to their high prices.
The weather is dry, and that makes summer hotter and winter colder.
This. I live in Santiago and I might add that there's a store that sells Crockett & Jones and BB sells its Peal & Co shoes. If you want to have shoes here I'd recommend you bring'em from the US since the selection (besides the ones I just mentioned) is full of overpriced square pointed rubber soled shoes.
There's also Zara, Hugo Boss, Armani and a local store named Saville Row (not related to England but "inspired" by the famous street) which have some decent stuff like jackets with working cuffs for U$ 300.
Thrifting stores here suck for the most, and that is kind of obvious since we get everything nobody else wanted (still there might be some decent stuff once in a while).