How Many Suits Do You Own?

[rucky]

Poll question: How Many Suits Do You Own?

This is a Howard Dean related question. The GDers are getting on him for wearing the same suit to every debate. I own one suit & didn't think that was wierd.

Does that make me wierd?

[terrya]

1. I don't own any.

Which will be a problem if I have to go on a job interview.

[GOPFighter]

2. How many do I own? 4

How many fit? 0

I'm a big boy now.

[politicat]

3. 5. When I have to be in court on consecutive days, I have to have suits.

So I buy them cheap when I can, with classic lines and nothing that says "1989" or "1997".

However, two of my suits are incredibly similar to each other and would be easily mistaken for one another (and in fact, mix and match quite nicely.) Maybe that's Dean's problem.

Politicat (who realizes there's a world if difference between women's suits and men's suits, and the way men dress versus the way women dress, but Politicat dresses in the way that men dress - as long as it fits, doesn't clash and covers the naughty bits, it's good.)

[THUNDER HANDS]

4. I have one good one

But I look better without a sports jacket. So I have many varieties of pants and shirts and tie combinations.

[Snow]

5. You mean like suit, pants, & maybe a vest that all match?

I'm a professor-type person - I wear comfy dockers-type pants and a weather-appropriate comfy tweedy jacket. Usually a tie, now that I'm in a company instead of a university. But a real suit, where everything matches? One. It's my tux. Which I own because I sing in symphonic choruses. I haven't sung in a while, but last week took my daughter to talk to a school. In the course of events, we were talking to one of the voice faculty, who conducts a mixed college-community choir. During the conversation he a) mentioned that he plans on his chorus performing Rachmaninoff's Vespers next spring, an ethereally beautiful piece which I have sung b) found out that I sing basso profundo, and he really really really needs me in order to do the Rachmaninoff (I have a solid low A). So, fun! I get to sing the Vespers next spring. Gotta send the ol' tux to the laundry.

[RobertSeattle]

6. Oh you mean THAT FIT

Funny how suits bought in my 20's don't fit now. Hmmm.

[cosmicdot]

7. haven't had it on since my Dad's funeral 12/2001

not sure if it still fits ... but, I counted it anyway

full-casual workdays helped to weed out those corporate uniforms

[dwckabal]

8. I wear suits so infrequently

that I get them from Goodwill at $15 a pop.

[Loonman]

9. Every man should own one suit and one pair of dress shoes

That's how it's done.

[sexybomber]

10. The one time I needed a suit, I borrowed my friend's.

He's about the same height and build as I am, so it fit pretty well. He also happens to be absolutely loaded, so I got to walk around wearing Gucci.

[Aristus]

11. I own five suits, and a ton of sport coats and slacks.

I've got a couple of double-breasted suits that aren't in style anymore, so I don't wear them; a charcoal gray and a plum-colored suit. A grey and blue glenplaid suit, and a nice, natty grey four-button, and a tan three button.

I don't wear suits much anymore, since I got out of banking. But it's nice to know that I can have something ready for any occasion.

BTW, not long ago, a bunch of us were discussing men's dress shoes, and I forgot to mention my spectators; a black-and-white pair, and a brown-and-white pair. Used to like to wear them for swing-dancing.

[OneBlueSky]

12. I think there's a couple in the closet . . .

but I haven't worn one in, oh, fifteen years at least . . . don't wear ties anymore, either . . . or a wristwatch . . . still wear underwear, though . . . :)

[truthspeaker]

13. one suit which I've worn once

to a funeral. Bought it earlier this year. I don't intend on wearing it again until the next relative dies.

[ajacobson]

14. 10 + suits? Who do you think you are, LENIN?

Embalmed Lenin to have new suit

For decades Lenin's tomb was a popular tourist attraction
The embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, on show in a Moscow mausoleum, is to get a new suit, a Russian official says.
The founder of the Soviet state will be given new clothes in November-December, embalming expert Yuri Denisov-Nikolsky told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency.

New clothes - including a trademark white spotted tie - are ordered for Lenin every three years, he said.

Lenin has been in the mausoleum since his death in 1924.

Mr Denisov-Nikolsky said the new suit would be Lenin's 10th during the 30 years in which he has been involved in preserving the body.
...
etc. etc. see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3251523.stm

[slackmaster]

15. One "interview", one "flight", one "swim", one "wet", and one "birthday"

The flight suit is pretty cool. Genuine US Air Force, unissued. I picked it up at a garage sale at a rich lady's house in La Jolla for $3.

[On the Road]

16. In My "Young Executive" Days

I used to wear a suit and tie every day. So did all other management employees in the telephone company. Then the company instituted casual Friday due to raise morale. Then casual summer. Then casual forever. It's all jeans and kakhis now for the few that come into the office. Everyone else works at home.

I don't understand it. I preferred the suit and tie environment. It's not uncomfortable or inconvenient, at least not for men. Plus, you get treated a LOT better in public when you dress. It's very noticeable, and I think one reason I liked it is that it subliminally raised my self-esteem.

On Edit: As far as Howard Dean goes, it is VERY wierd for someone in his situation to wear the same suit repeatedly and make such a point of it. I believe the idea is to create a symbol of his frugality and to relate to the common man. The instincts are good -- I can't tell if it will work in practice, though.

[truthspeaker]

17. not uncomfortable or inconvenient?!?!

The hell they aren't!

The tie cuts off my breathing, and is a pain in the ass to tie. (I only tie my ties once; after that I loosen them enough to pull them over my head and hang them up that way).

Most mens' suits are made of wool, and are only comfortable in temperatures of 60 degrees or less. Bad enough in the building, but I hate turning into a sweatball just from the walk to and from my car in 80+ degree weather.

They have to be dry-cleaned.

Dress shirts wrinkle, so you either have to grab them out of the drier right away or actually iron the damn things.

[geniph]

18. I used to wear suits a lot

so I still have several good ones - but many of my best ones are a size 4, and that's being JUST a trifle optimistic these days. I don't wear them to work anymore - it would look strange, everyone would ask when my interview was. I do wear them to interviews. I wear them if I go to professional seminars, otherwise, everyone assumes you're a waitress or something. Then again, I learned the hard way not to wear my navy-blue suit with the matching light-blue blouse and navy scarf-tie at the airport - EVERYONE asked me which airline I worked for, or where their gate was, etc.

Mostly, I didn't like the whole dry-cleaning thing - it's environmentally unsound, but most lined suits really don't look right unless they're professionally cleaned and pressed. It takes too much time and money and makes them smell icky. I tried doing the Dryel thing to make them not smell sweaty, but I can't press a lined suit so that it looks right. So screw it - no more dry-clean only clothes for me.

[bif]

19. None

Three olds sport coats and a used tux. But no suit.