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Suits Are a Form of Armor- Why Spend $5000 instead of $500?
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vn_nnanji
Title: Outpost Music Expert
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Registered: 2001-6-30 17:22:56
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Suits Are a Form of Armor- Why Spend $5000 instead of $500?
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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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eodoll
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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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Manegarm
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Suits Are a Form of Armor- Why Spend $5000 instead of $500?
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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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vn_nnanji
Title: Outpost Music Expert
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Suits Are a Form of Armor- Why Spend $5000 instead of $500?
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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. 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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Ptilk
Title: Creepy old pirate
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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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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Modeeb
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
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Registered: 2002-4-19 10:48:36
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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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the_great_intex
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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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Abaddon_Ambrosius
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Registered: 2001-12-21 09:51:39
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smellymotor posted:
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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