What was the first suit you ever owned?

[SuitMyself]

1987: Light grey and blue mix, two-button single breasted with center vent and flat-front pants by Wm. H. Leishman from Tip Top Tailors, 100% wool, made in Canada. Shirt was also by Leishman, white tone-on-tone, 65% polyester, 35% cotton, barrel cuffs, imported; solid red silk tie by Leishman made in Italy; solid red pocket square.

 

[Wrigglez]

a black with blue stitch stripe 100pc wool suit from studio italia. fused and still to big for me. worn three times

 

[BaaBaaBlackFleece]

Originally Posted by furo

I think mine was Geoffrey Beene sometime around 1996 or so when I was doing debate in high school

HS debate was also the reason I needed a suit.

 

[Ryan Graber]

My first real suit wa sgiven to me by my uncle when i was 15/16 it was a bijan, I got 6 months of use then it was off to an elder cousin of small stature. (when I was younger I didnt really were suits, more just casual stuff) My first non hand me down suit was an Etro I bought a year ago.

 

[acidboy]

grey polyester number when I was 12 and made to wear by my mom... she also bought me a white short-sleeved shirt and a solid blue clip-on tie. I only wore it once, and it affected my childhood.

 

[Markus Aurelius]

The first suit that I bought myself and I consider to be my 'real big boy' suit, I purchased at UNIQLO last summer. It's a very sharp black two button suit, I wear it all the time and it has become a true staple of my wardrobe. Wonderful suit for the price I got it for. Toronto needs a UNIQLO, anybody willing to send a very well worded letter to the head office?

Dear UNIQLO

Please, please open a location in Toronto, we need you to fight back against the H and M.

Love
Markus and Torontonians

 

[JayJay]

My mom and dad dressed me in suits from a very early age. I've always had them.

 

[blackbowtie]

An MTM double breasted black suit at the age of 17, which in retrospect, must have been made of a material of dubious provenance. The fit was so bad and I felt ugly wearing it that it has put me off double breasted suits until now.

 

[intent]

Hand-me-down navy shadow stripe DB from my father since I needed one for band concerts. I outgrew the trousers and started wearing black poly trousers as a replacement. All photos of this sartorial travesty have since been destroyed.

 

[Vintage Gent]

Originally Posted by BaaBaaBlackFleece

HS debate was also the reason I needed a suit.

Everyone on my HS debate team (82 to 86) was content to wear a blazer and gray flannels/khakis.

 

[otc]

Polyester tux for high school orchestra

 

[Holdfast]

You know, I have a sneaking suspicion that the first suit I ever wore was actually a tux when I was about 5 or 6. I really need to dig through the family albums at some stage and find some fit pics.

I wore various varieties of blazer and trousers for school (first a blue blazer and grey shorts, then black blazer with black/white piping and embroidered breast pocket, grey shorts and matching cap, then long trousers with the above). But I first wore a full suit at school when I was 13 (we had to wear grey suits on Wednesdays & Saturdays for chapel services, but blue blazer/grey trousers the rest of the week. Don't ask me to explain the reasoning; I've no idea).

My first "proper" adult suit was around age 17, for university interviews. A navy blue Pierre Cardin DB in a worsted flannel. I actually really liked that suit, and thought it was a pretty damn cool at the time and for my age. Kept it throughout my time at university, alongside a charcoal grey SB suit and a tux, but it finally gave out about a year after I graduated.

 

[chrisb0109]

some house brand from Men's Warehouse.

Black, pleated, cuffed, 4 button.


Oh, and it was two sizes too big.

 

[lasbar]

A double-breasted solid charcoal suit.

That was the only and only double breasted suit i ever worn in my entire life...

It was quite baggy if I think about it in SF terms...

 

[Macallan]

When I was 10 years old, I had a single-breasted black suit - do not remember much else about it.

First proper suit was a RTW Gieves & Hawkes suit - navy, single breasted, two buttons, double vents.