Unless you intend to work as a petrol pump station assistant the rest of your life, times will come when you will need to wear
a suit.
Rules of Suits :
A suit, much like a shirt, has about three billion ways in which you can
wear it and look stupid, and about 100 ways in which you can actually look decent. This limits your options to either following set trends and ideas and looking good, or looking like a complete dumb shit and making everyone in
your o ce/party/whatever laugh at you. So, with that in mind, follow these tips for safety :
• Stay conservative and classic. Obviously this means that you should stick to the basics of clothing. Wearing
anything completely out of fashion or odd will immediately brand you as an idiot, so this is your basic method
of "looking good". Find a black suit that ts you and accentuates your body, and you will be pretty much
set in this realm- straying from it will be at your discretion, but the plain black suit is an absolute necessity.
• Three or two buttons is optimal. Three is only good if you are tall or thin, two is best if you're a bit round.
Ask someone in a Men's Suit Department for help on this one.

• The length of the jacket should be normal - too long makes it look like a leisure suit, too short is very strange.
If you need a good measurement, go grab a standard Male's sized tie and put it up against the lapels- they
should be around the same length.
• The typical suit coat has a vent in the back (about a 10 inch long cut in the middle) that allows for your
back, among other things. Some di erent suits do not feature this. Make sure to check and test which you
prefer more - vents sometimes allow the suit to pu up, but an uncut jacket can be uncomfortable to some
body types.
• Some black suits tend to feature odd fabrics, such as heavier weaves. Avoid this, as they are not only misplaced
in many ensembles, but they also are a pain in the ass to keep clean and dry-clean them.
• A lot of a suit is the ability to accentuate the upper body and slim the lower. DO NOT SIMPLY BUY
A SUIT OFF THE RACK. Think and BUY.
• There is a debate going on about if men should wear belts with suits. In general, the historical thing has been
to wear belts, thus it is generally good for you to do so. Much like leisure suits, fads like these tend to die out.
• Suits can be produced in two ways - being sewn, and being glued. Ask - glued suits (glue being used to
hold fabric together) are HORRIBLE, and fall apart easily. Ignore what the man at the counter says about
"advanced new technologies" - glue in a suit is as natural as your penis in your asshole. Don't do it.
And while you're at it, check the lengths of all of these key things:
• The length of the sleeve when you hold out and bend your arm (as if holding it out to a lady). It should be
long enough to cover your wrist, but possibly expose a bit of watch or something- nothing more.
• The length of the actual coat itself. It should come down to about your hips.
• The drape of the fabric in the back. There should actually BE no drape. If you see any wrinkles in the back,
there is a problem.
• The fabric under your arms. This, much like your back, should never have wrinkles that come from being
stretched or pulled.