stuffedsuperdud
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Sorry, I am just a rookie in suiting. My father is not a "suit" guy so nobody teach me about that in my family. The main source of my understanding in suit is TV series or movies. TV series like Suits or Movie like Kingsman. Havey Specter in Suits always wears Peak Lapel suit for work and Tony Stark wears one Tom Ford peak lapel three piece suit in Capitain America. As a result, I don't know why peak lapel is not good for work since it looks sharp and cool. Can you explain it in details?
Those are costumes designed that way specifically to signify to these audience that Harvey Specter and (early) Tony Stark are both giant gaping unwiped buttholes. They're the protagonists of their story so we take their side and see things from their perspective, but you walking into a room dressed like them is an $18,000 way to distract an audience who has a lot of money to spend but not necessarily on you. Notice Tony slowly stops dressing like this as his redemption story arc moves along towards Endgame.
If however you're ever in a oligargh hellhole like Dubai and the kind to open and close a drunk argument with "Do you know who my father is?!" before having your ex-Spetznaz driver kneecap someone for looking at your funny, then by all means, get after it, bro: a reddish or burgundy peak lapel plaid with shiny overcheck and red cuff and lapel buttonholes will get the job done.
BTW how fat are you? What's the exchange rate between $ and lbs? $18k vs whatever can fit on a human frame is a huge # unless you're one of those My-600-lb-Life guys, and even then, your parents are still putting you in dry age ribeye territory. Delicious!
Come to think of it, does anyone know of a suit, off the rack or otherwise, that would cost $18k? I mean, it sounds like some **** that Bijan would sell.
The Bijan version is probably yellow with pink pinstripes, woven just for them. Get it with matching silk shirt, sunglasses, socks, gator skin loafers, handbag, luggage, for $320k out the door. @JFWR would shell out for the matching sneakers or yellow suede oxfords probably ; it's fine because if you have Bijan money, you do you. If I had that kind of money I would probably skip the socks and spend the $ on Ukrainian escorts with MS degrees in nuclear reactor engineering.
International arms dealer fantasies aside, my tailor said that he has made one vicuna suit ever, and it came out to be about $20,000 for just the 3.5m of fabric. I was surprised he'd do that since he doesn't like working with flannels, cashmere, etc. on account of how fragile they are, but he said that vicuna is somehow both super soft and super strong and durable at the same time, never too warm or too cold, and the cost is fair. I'll have to take his word for it about the mechanical and thermal qualities, I guess, as I'll never have that kind of ****-you money. He said he was trembling as he brought his shears up for the first cut, as one mistake and he would immediately lose the margin on the fabric. Two and he'd be lucky to break even on the whole suit. Yikes!
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