You can call them that. Some of us found them dead sexy. 
Back when I was presenting as male and had to occasionally wear suits (including during my mortuary days where I wore one frequently), I was also poor as dirt. (The “male” part changed, the “poor” part hasn’t!) I have literally never had a friend or family member that owned a tailored suit - every suit-wearer in my social-economic circles wore off-the-rack from the Sears or JC Penny discount area. Even “just hemming the pants” on suits at Men’s Wearhouse was way beyond my price range.
I say all this just to express that the assumption that you just always get suits altered is nowhere near the default for a substantial segment of the suit-wearing population.
On the only slightly related tangent of women’s suits, if anyone has an extra $500 laying around and wants to buy me this gorgeous number I would probably never take it off.
And to some extent, that’s going to depend a lot on where you work. My husband used to be a retail store manager and at that time, in that store , managers wore suits. My husband was the only person who got them altered. There’s a certain social-economic class where alterations are unimaginable - my husband has a friend who frequently talks about the suit that was “made for him” that he still wears when a suit is called for. It wasn’t made for him in as in “bespoke” or even “made to measure” - it was off-the-rack and altered. It never even occurred to him that someone might have actually have a suit made from scratch after they were measured.
And mind you, if you are shaped to approximate “average proportions”, you can likely find a jacket that may be say half an inch short on the coattails or an inch wide at the button and half an inch long on the sleeve and the average casual observer will hardly notice anything wrong.
How many people here would agree wearing a tie is kind of like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day long?
Nothing sets off a flashy suit like a really cool tie.
I agree, and this is really not much different from shirts or non-suit pants – for many* people, while off-the-rack clothing may not be perfectly fit to their bodies, they’re probably able to find clothing that fits reasonably well.
*- I hesitate to say “most,” only because I know that many people do have bodily proportions that make it difficult to find clothing that fits well.
I like dressing up, so that’s a no from me. 
That may be more a case of your shirt collar being too tight (and even shirts properly sized at purchase have to deal with shrinking).
I just want the waistcoat. Gorgeous.
The only person I know who wears colorful men’s suits is Arejay Hale of Halestorm.
Lime green (including the hair)
Probably doesn’t count as much, as he is performing.
I’m at the point that I don’t care so much what’s in style - as long as it makes me happy.
That’s why I budgeted $500 from my hypothetical fairy godparent - the tux itself is only $360, but I gotta have the waistcoat and cravat too!
(I don’t actually agree with that joke, heard it on comedy radio about a turtleneck. I like dressing up and wouldn’t hesitate to loosen my tie if it bugged me.)
It sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield joke.
Maybe so, but it was Mitch Hedberg.
That looks like what Trump wears all the time. Maybe he’s one of the people that only have one suit. Hard to tell, his may be darker.
I own a few suits, including three piece ones. Black or gray, some with a light stripe. Not really sure of the last time I wore one.
I think they’re shock absorber rods. Here’s an image of something similar I found online:
Stephen Fry is known for his large and quite colorful collection ot ties, and he wore some very striking suits while hosting QI. This grey jacket over a purple shirt with an aquamarine and purple striped tie is one of my favorites.
I’ve literally never owned one in my life 
. Jackets and ties at times, but never the full ensemble. Never worked in a professional industry where they were necessary and I avoid very formal weddings and particularly funerals like the plague. I have done more casual weddings where a jacket and slacks at most has been sufficient to avoid offense.
I can’t really imagine ever buying one at this late point in my life. My immediate family are thankfully all anti-funeral services to a person.
There was a time when I’d occasionally wear a tie with a blouse (and skirt). I liked the look, and there was a cool vintage store I used to haunt that had some awesome numbers from the 40s and 50s.
I never felt like I was being strangled, so I couldn’t understand why guys were always complaining about it. I figured they just hated ties and used the “strangled” word as an excuse.
At least on my monitor, the grey suit has too much brown in it for that shirt/tie combo. I think they’d work better with a darker suit, less clownish contrast.
As some previous poster (um, lessee, that was JRDelirious back in post #39) noted, feeling strangled when wearing a tie is more the fault of too-tight shirt collars than of the tie itself.
Many guys who routinely wear button-down shirts without ties never button the top button and consequently never notice that their collar size is too small. Then on the day they have to wear a tie and do try to button the collar they’re all like AGHLGGHCKKHHH GET IT OFF ME.