I bought a suit about 10 years ago. It still fits, and it’s still stylish.
I used to own 2 tuxes, but I dumped one because it no longer fit. I still have the other one.
Yes, I have one.
I’ve had one suit for the past 15 or so years. I only wear it to weddings, funerals, & job interviews. I do like it because it’s dark navy blue, and with sunglasses I look like I’m in the Secret Service. I don’t like dress shoes though, too constricting.
I still haven’t gotten it dry cleaned.
I own several, but likely many of them no longer fit.
I own one, that doesn’t fit anymore. Doesn’t matter much…I wore a Hawaiian shirt to the last funeral I attended.
I have an olive-green suit I bought cheap in Chicago, with too-short trousers, and a pretty grotesque cream suit with awful blueish threads. Either would lose me the job at interview, get me ostracised at a wedding or probably buried at a funeral.
That currently fit, I have 1 suit, 2 blazers, several dress pants, several dress shirts and more than a dozen ties but only about 4 or 5 that I’d wear. At my previous job I needed to wear at least a tie about twice a month but in the past 2.5 years I’ve worn at least a tie only 3 or 4 times. Most of my clients would want to reach over and cut the tie off. I actually like to dress up on occassion and am considering starting a Tie-Tuesday or something for myself. I had also assumed that every post-college male owned at least a jacket/pants combo if not an actual suit.
Nope, no suit, no tie, casual all the way for me
if it helps explain things at all, I went to a college-prep high school that had a dress code (button shirt, tie and blazer, dress slacks) and I HATED every second of it, when I graduated, I promised myself that I’d never voluntarily wear that crap ever again, so far so good 
MrWhatsit has a tux but not a regular suit. Well, I think he has a sport jacket around somewhere.
My dad does not own a suit, and in fact if I ever saw him wearing a suit, I’d think the pod people had got to him. He and Diogenes are of similar mind about the need to dress appropriately at formal events. But then he has no social life and pretty much no friends, so this does not really come up for him ever.
Of the other men in my family, my two brothers (including the 14-year-old) and one of my brother-in-laws own at least one suit each. My other brother-in-laws have either unknown suit-ownage status (2) or definitely do not own a suit and never will (1).
You are right that you really can’t make a suit out of a sportcoat and pants bought separately. True that the sportcoat is cut a little differently from a suit coat, but the real issue is matching the fabric, I think. A man’s suit really needs to have matching fabric up & down. Usually with a sportcoat and pants, there is contrast…solid colored pants with a tweed jacket, for instance, or grey pants with a navy sport coat, as D_Odds said. Matching two blue pieces or to gray pieces would be really really tricky.
But as I said in the other thread, I think that depending on the sportcoat, you could get away with the sportcoat/pants combo instead of a suit at your brother’s wedding, as long as a nice shirt & tie are part of the ensemble. I think for “cocktail” it’s the jacket and tie that’s important, not whether or not it’s technically a suit.
My husband has owned at least one suit and one sport coat as long as I’ve known him (going on 23 years), despite the fact that he’s never had a suit-wearing job. He was in the Navy for 26 years, then worked at business-casual jobs. Currently, he owns 2 suits and a sport coat. Only wears them for weddings, funerals, and [very] occasionally for work.
My dad also has owned at least one suit and a couple of sport coats as long as I’ve known him. He also has never worked a ‘suit job’ (Navy for 20 years, then he was a millwright in a factory for 25). Right now he owns a suit and a sport coat – they only get worn for weddings or funerals.
My son is 21 and he doesn’t own a suit. He is in the Navy and has been able to get away with wearing either his dress uniform, or a dress shirt, dress slacks and a tie to the few formal events he’s attended so far. That said, he has a friend who will be getting married after they return from their next deployment (this February). Nick wants me to go with him before the wedding and help him pick out a nice all-purpose suit to wear at that wedding, and to have on hand for any future suit-wearing occasions.
I have three suits. I’m wearing one of them now.
People treat you differently than they do the guy in jeans.
I am starting a new job Monday, working from home - my wife asked if I was going to wear my suits during work hours.
I am, of course.
Regards,
Shodan
I’m also surprised at the lack of suits we’re seeing here. I have 6, from decent off the rack stuff to hot shit Italian super 120 wool bespoke jobs. Two black, one navy, one grey, one blue/brown windowpane plaid and one khaki brown.
If you ever, ever in your life have the chance to get a bespoke suit, do it. The first time you put it on you can’t help but say “Good lord, I look fantastic…and feel good too.” There’s nothing like it in the world and it’s just as comfortable as jeans and a sportcoat.
Nope, which makes going to weddings and the like impossible, but that’s a good thing.
Anyone who treats you different becasue of your clothes is a pompous ass. Ever heard the story of the really wealthy guy who pulled his money out of the small town bank because they treated him bad because he was weraing shabby clothes?
Another attorney checking in - between that and church, It isn’t uncommon for me to wear a suit 6 days a week - I currently own 6 suits and a sports coat.
I have 8. Two are slightly too small but if I lose weight, I’d like to have them. Some are cheaper than others and a few were expensive but I use them a fair bit.
My husband is 25. He owns one suit.
However, this board also skews towards people who don’t go to church, which is the one place the average American is most likely to wear a suit.
Speaking for myself, I own one suit, suitable (snerk) for anything from a semi-formal dinner to a wedding. It’s dark brown, and I dress it up or down with choices of shirt, tie and shoes.
I have 1 suit (black) and 2 blazers. The suit is nothing special - I got it at JC Penney almost three years ago - but it fits and I like it.
I play in several amateur ensembles in which the nominal performance dress is tuxedos, but I’ve outgrown mine so the black suit gets used instead. With a white dress shirt and black bow tie it works well enough from a distance.
I wear the suit perhaps 3 times a year (including at a wedding last Saturday night) as a suit, and probably 10 times a year as a fake tuxedo. I wear one of the blazers 4-5 times a year for one occasion or another.
I’m 37. Since I was in college I’ve always had exactly one suit (that fit well enough to wear) in my closet. I’m not opposed to getting another one, but I wear it so rarely I do find it hard to justify; buying a tuxedo would probably make more sense, instead.
I did think I looked pretty sharp last Saturday at the wedding. 
Anyone who doesn’t think people judge you based on your appearance and dress is either deluding themselves or is in a particular set of circumstances that has disconnected them from the rest of society (ie rich hermits, Silicon Valley workers, hippies, the mentally insane).
The other night I’m at a college alumni networking function in Manhattan. The invitations specifically say “business dress required”. Everyone is wearing a suit except for this one dork who’s dressed in a college sweatshirt and jeans as if he just came back from football tailgates. Do you think anyone took him seriously as someone to network with professionally?
As a professional working in Manhattan, it’s pretty much expected that I have several suits. Since I have to wear suits, I try to get ones that are affordable, of high quality material and are well tailored so I look good in them.
Quite frankly I don’t understand the resistance to wearing or owning them. What are people freakin Hillbillies from Apalachia or something? Are you going to show up to a weding or job interview wearing no shoes, overalls and a straw hat?