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I was reading a magazine in the hair salon yesterday and ooking at the price tags of a suit. They were priced above $2000.00 I really would never spend that much on a suit. I googled and found this Forbes article:
http://www.forbes.com/2004/11/03/cx_ns_1103feat.html
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People can rationalize any purchase in a variety of ways, really it's just a pathetic status symbol.
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It doesnt matter what you wear if youre good looking with the right attitude - any suit will work.
A nice suit though will make up for other things you might lack - itll make you look better.
Edit: btw to a lot of people $500 is a lot of money to spend on a suit - $250 will fnd you an ok suit too.
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It depends on your income and wealth.
I buy 300-500 suits and have them tailored. I used to use Men's Wearhouse but have found their overall quality suspect. A well made well tailored suit is worth the money. Now if I had boatloads of money?
I'd buy $2000 Armani suits. You bet. The price is inflated but you can't dismiss the quality of a suit like that.
Then again if I had that kind of money I'd spend $3000 to fly to Seoul and get those $2000 suits fully tailored for $500 or less, saving extra money for Asian hookers!
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I like that I do my board meetings in jeans,tshirt, and steel toed boots, then drive off to some remote location and hop on a chopper to fly to remote comm sites....I own one suit and four dress shirts total.
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I have found Men's Wearhouse suits need to be carefully chosen to get a bargain, too. They have a lot of junk mixed in with some quality.
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Suits for me are a tactical weapon. I don't generally wear them, but when I am wearing them I'm generally in front of people who breathe very expensive air. For that reason I only own 3 or so suits at a time, but they're the $600-$750 tailored variety.
I COULD put a couple $1500 suits in the closet, but it is an awful waste considering I am lucky to wear any suit 5-7 times a year. If I need something that heavy-duty, I'm probably going to be renting a tux.
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I'm one of the few people in the Navy who has to wear a suit daily. So I have around 8 suits, I think the most I've spent is around $500, it was a waste. Then again there are people where I work who sport the $2000+ suits and you can really tell the difference.
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My suit is more a shroud of awesome, it's less a suit of armor.
I pay way to much for my suits, but I wear them all the time.. Both at work and when I'm out. 
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Why would you wear a $2000 suit to work unless youre the CEO and want to show off?
Even then as the CEO, you cant come in to the office in your ferrari unless you want to annoy a lot of the employees.
My suit is from hugo boss - if you include, shirt, tie, shoes - its around $1000. I only wear it to special events like weddings though.
the stuff in magazines is to get you to spend money (advertising) - its not realistic work clothes.
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Like Thug said you can tell the difference.
In reality I don't need to wear a suit anymore and seldom do but I consider having at least one well made well tailored suit in the closet a necessity.
Mine is yellow to go with my Cheesehead.
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If you are a suit wearer though and are going to wear a $2000 suit to work.. You need at least 10 for a 2week rotation. Youre talking min 20,000 a year for work suits. Then you have to have them dry cleaned/pressed so its quite expensive.
As sure as people can tell you have a nice suit on, they can tell when you wear it more than once in a short time frame.
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Video related..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdCBwMJ4xEY&feature=player_detailpage#t=30s
 
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I'd only spend that much if my income was such that $5000 impacted me as much as $500.
I have to wear at least a shirt and tie to work every day and if I am off site I have to wear a suit. I own a couple of $800 - $1000 suits and two suits that were tailored for me in Korea but I usually buy a suit off the rack for $300-$500 and then get it tailored. that's all you need to do imo.
I bought this suit made from polyester or something which doesnt wrinkle. It looks ok and its great for traveling along with non-iron shirts I find it really handy for when you have to be away for a few days.
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If you are a suit wearer though and are going to wear a $2000 suit to work.. You need at least 10 for a 2week rotation. Youre talking min 20,000 a year for work suits. Then you have to have them dry cleaned/pressed so its quite expensive.
As sure as people can tell you have a nice suit on, they can tell when you wear it more than once in a short time frame.
What a decidedly random tangent. 
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Back when I worked, I wore suits daily.
Most of my suits cost between 400 and 800 bucks. I kept around 10 of them at a time, bought off the rack of course but tailored to me by a lady from Thailand who had a shop just around the corner from one of my offices. She only charged 100 bucks to alter the entire thing to a more natural and better looking fit. I got quite a few compliments on some of those suits after she did her magic on them.
A couple of times in my working life I succumbed to the "I deserve it" temptation and bought things way to expensive just because I could. Never worked out well. I bought a suit at a shop in Dallas that set me back a bit over 4K. I think I wore it 3 times. Never felt comfortable in it. Wasn't me. It was a "modern style" which probably would look good on some young hipster, but left me feeling like an old guy wearing a baseball cap sideways.
Worst example of the "I deserve it" thing were those shoes from Neiman Marcus. The sales woman was beautiful beyond description and I would have bought a bag of shit for 1000 bucks from her...so when she told me how awesome I looked in a pair of hand stitched Italian shoes.....I bought the damn things for a lot (a whole lot!) of money. Never wore them once. The looked like something an elf would wear to a costume party.
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We've all been there mate
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That is hilarious ptilk. I have antenna for that type of sales hype from young women. The last time I bought something I didn't need a beautiful woman sprayed some cologne on me. She told me it smelled flirty while giving the come hither look and smiling. I bought it on the spot!
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I would never be able to tell the difference between a 5000 and a 500 dollar suit
Unless like the 5000 suit was made out of money. I'd defiantly notice it then
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We've all been there mate
I... haven't. Despite the fact that I'm all about the flirting.
I've got a peculiar resistance to this ploy from women. It irritates and intrigues them at the same time.
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Suits for me are a tactical weapon. I don't generally wear them, but when I am wearing them I'm generally in front of people who breathe very expensive air. For that reason I only own 3 or so suits at a time, but they're the $600-$750 tailored variety.
I COULD put a couple $1500 suits in the closet, but it is an awful waste considering I am lucky to wear any suit 5-7 times a year. If I need something that heavy-duty, I'm probably going to be renting a tux.
i bet they still laugh at you
i know i would
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There is something to be said for cleaning up well.
The ladies know what I mean.
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ive been to my regular bar a couple times in my cheap ass target suit after a company event....
it never occurred to me that, being a newly found college bar, i could stand there and pretend to be art vandeleigh from the new york architect office on a field assignment......
one of the bar tenders was there today and doing exactly that. lol
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my regular bar
Well there you have it then. 
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Snoot suits. Over rated. Love me a pair of jeans and a shirt. Will never wear a suit.
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vn_nnanji posted:
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my regular bar
Well there you have it then.
its turned into a total little college kid bar.
had i been dressed to the 9s tonight, i would walked out a happy man.
unfortunately, i stopped in after 3 hours of kungfu in my work attire. i had no idea this place has turned into such a little college teenybopper bar
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i bet they still laugh at you
i know i would
I primarily work corporate acquisitions. I'm on the side of the acquisition that decides who and what gets kept or done away with. We usually dress down so as not to scare the locals.
If I show up in a suit, believe me. Nobody is laughing.
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eodoll posted:
If you are a suit wearer though and are going to wear a $2000 suit to work.. You need at least 10 for a 2week rotation.
lol
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Yukishiro1 posted:
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If you are a suit wearer though and are going to wear a $2000 suit to work.. You need at least 10 for a 2week rotation.
lol
You're going to look great in that same pants and jacket every day - might as well get 4 $500 suits. It'll look better. Nice clothes also wear out and unlike expensive furniture, aged/used/faded clothes never look good.
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
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i bet they still laugh at you
i know i would
I primarily work corporate acquisitions. I'm on the side of the acquisition that decides who and what gets kept or done away with. We usually dress down so as not to scare the locals.
If I show up in a suit, believe me. Nobody is laughing.
oh, they are laughing.
believe me
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