As for the OP question, there are certainly some of our here that like to be stylish, and even like to wear suits. I have two conservative suits (one black and one grey) and then I have a very pale grey plaid suit, and for my belated (Covid delayed) wedding reception, I’m going to have a darkish teal suit made.
I do think that the brighter blue suit is becoming more common. I see it among all the other standard colors fairly regularly.
Oh, and men’s suits can go out of style. How long it takes depends on how fashionable (vs conservative) it was when it was made.
Maybe not colors, but the style and cut sure does. Watching shows from 20 years ago, grown men look like little boys playing dress-up in their dad’s suit. Those things were ridiculously baggy!
Of course coloured clothing will come back into style; there are only so many ideas. Whether most men care what is currently in style is a different question altogether.
Indeed! My sister decreed her wedding color would be pink, and so the Black mother of the groom and her then-partner showed up in coordinating shades of pink. He even wore pink spats.
I would wear a suit like that at least a couple times a month.
Or at least, the jacket. I’m not really a “suit” person, I prefer a nice jacket or blazer - colourful or textured - with non-matching trousers - pinstripe or solid colour.
I’d wear the trousers, too, just not with the jacket.
Huh. I didn’t know that. I always assumed they came with the pants unhemmed, and that you basically need to get them altered to fit properly. Which is probably actually true; for the cost of alterations vs. the cost of a suit, you can look a LOT better for not a whole lot more money.
The Mid-Level department stores tend to be big on “suit separates” where they sell you the two pieces, jacket and pants, individually and the pants come standard pre-sized and hemmed (e.g. 32x30, 40x34, etc).
(Dedicated suit shops sometimes do similarly for unhemmed pants for people whose chest-to-waist “drop” is not the standard.)
For instance with a purchase I made in 2017 — it was a full suit, not “separates”, but though the pants got two rounds of alterations to get them right, the jacket was so close that though it may have taken a half or whole inch here or there to make it “perfect” I figured “oh, whatever, it already looks and fits so much better than what it’s replacing”. I believe that outside of made-to-measure many men only alter the pants.
That’s interesting. I was always taught by my father and grandfather (both bankers/financial industry types back in the day) that it’s more important to have a suit that’s well fitted & altered, than it is to have an expensive suit that doesn’t fit right.
So the idea is a bit foreign to me; getting a mid-range suit somewhere like Men’s Wearhouse and having it altered everywhere necessary is just how it was done, I thought.
Agreed; once I started having to wear a suit every day for work, I was going to actual men’s suit stores, and having them fitted and altered. Even though I don’t often wear a suit anymore, the couple of suits I have in my closet are fairly recent purchases, and also fitted for me.
But, then, like your father and grandfather (and maybe you), for me, the suit was part of my regular business attire, and there was/is a value placed on getting the proper fit. But, for a man who wears a suit once or twice a year (if that), for a couple of hours at a time (i.e., at a funeral or wedding), that simply may not be as important or relevant.
