Quote: (11-14-2011 12:35 AM)RipSaw Wrote:
Another excellent site: atailoredsuit.com/mens-style-guide-tailored-suit.html
For their prices, those suits look terribly uninspiring. I would not recommend them.
Suit Supply ( http://www.suitsupply.com/shop/1./Suits ) looks promising; I don't have any personal experience with them, but they've gotten good write ups, and they seem to be good for the price of $400-700. Brooks Brothers is solid too, in the 1818 lines. Here is a review of Suit Supply from the WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424...84478.html
I went into Macy's the other day, and tried out their suits. They all felt awkward. You can't imagine what a better suit feels like until you've tried one on. I have a suit from Polo Blue Label, made by Corneliani I believe, and it is vastly superior to everything from the cheaper labels. When I try on the cheap suits, it just feels wrong, because the suit is stuffed with padding in the chest and shoulders, and doesn't drape well. In my experience, Brooks Brothers is the cheapest maker of decent suits.
Here is a trailer of a documentary on Neapolitan tailoring, for an idea of how nice suits look and wear: