Its the dumbest fucking advice I’ve found since everything is centralised and run from head offices but they dont seem to understand thats not a thing

  • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    128·
    1 day ago

    Suits aren’t stupid! There’s casual suits, for one, and really there’s suits for basically every occasion… There’s so many different fits, different materials, different cuts…

    That’s just such a violent generalization, I simply can’t stand by and say nothing.

    Maybe the idea you have of a “suit”, in your mind, sucks balls, but suits certainly don’t suck balls.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I look positively bad ass in a sport coat, and I’m every bit as comfortable as in any other clothing.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      7 hours ago

      what even is a proper suit supposed to represent?

      like, i’ve grown up hating them as much as i hated everything else that was pushed onto me and i didn’t understand.

      i’ve never seen a single suit that looks good or made sense to me. what is the purpose in it?

      • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        At the end of the day, it’s fashion – you may just not like them. It’s OK not to like suits, I’m not trying to push anyone here to like suits, I’m just saying they’re not stupid.

        I mean, why wear chinos? Why wear blazers? It’s not like they’re “superior” garments or something, they just… Look nice! That’s it!

        Suits are about showing that you care about what you wear and how you present yourself, because it’s intentional – you’re wearing matching pants and blazer, maybe even a matching vest on top of that – and that says that you meant to wear that, and didn’t just happen to wear it because you liked those pants and you liked that shirt. A suit is an outfit that looks like it’s meant to be worn as a single item: a suit. Not pants and a blazer; A suit!

        That’s what makes it “special”, but it’s really just clothes.

        Maybe when you think of “suit” you think of something like this:

        Horrendous skinny suit

        But this is also a suit:

        Nice relaxed suit

        Do they look the same to you? Is it the same vibe? Do you think they fit the same and are equally as comfortable?!

        HELL NO!! I wouldn’t want to wear that first skinny ass suit a single day in my life, but I think the second more relaxed suit looks very comfortable and reasonable, and something I could wear around without a problem.

        Even if you still think both suits look bad, I hope this at least sheds some light on how not all suits are the same. What they do have in common is a cohesion that says that you meant to wear An OutfitTM, as opposed to putting on some pants and a jacket. Well, and they’re a little more formal than a t-shirt and jeans, too.

        Something that I think might’ve also been a problem for you when suits were pushed on you was that maybe you weren’t wearing very good materials or very well-made stuff. I don’t mean to say that I know your upbringing, but odds are you were forced to wear poorly-made polyester clothes that draped weird, didn’t breathe well, and felt weird on the skin – that’s not exactly a good way to get a kid (or anyone, frankly…) to enjoy wearing anything.

        I, at least, for the longest time, hated wearing collared shirts! Why? Not sure, but I assume a reason for that was that I was forced to wear them to church growing up and I hated both church and being forced to wear anything! Also, I was wearing shitty shirts that felt horrible to wear, regardless of occasion. Maybe you went through something similar.