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Originally Posted by NastyCanasta
I don't know if there are any here in ATX (I'll bet there is) but I got some really great suits at a resale/consignment shop up in DFW... and it was a good place to unload the old suits I had. I think I only ended up spending a few hundred bux on three suits after trading in two.
Of course, I had to get them tailored but that's true of just about any suit if you want it to fit right.
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Howdy, Folks!
Ever since I read of a fellow working in a high end haberdashery doing the following, I thought - "WOW - this is a GREAT idea..."
Go to estate sales/yard sales/thrift stores - in that order.
Look at the fabric, and the construction. If you know nothing about fabrics and construction, take a friend along who does(I have a lady friend that took one look at a suit I had, and not only told me the type of fabric, but where it came from, what year it had been woven, and where it had been tailored. NAILED it - It had come from overseas. On a good day, she can tell what textile mill the fabrics came out of, or if it was some sort of custom weave. When I go suit shopping, I take her for dinner and shoe shopping. I come out WAY ahead...)
Find your size, or if possible - a size or two bigger.
Pay a good tailor to then tailor the suit to your form.
If you do it right - you can in theory get a suit for less than $100 that looks and fits like a $5000 suit. Only you will know the difference(and maybe my buddy
).
If you get a conservative cut, it'll last you for years.
Pricing examples - I found a custom made top coat that was WAY too big for me in a thrift store a while back. FIVE BUCKS.
I bought it, and gave it to the nephew of a friend of mine that moved to Chicago. He loves it and looks GREAT in it, and his aunt and uncle recognized it as about a $2000 coat.
Also - look at Austin Freecycle -
http://groups.freecycle.org/AustinFreecycle/description
You may be able to get a wardrobe that says you make a million a year for FREE.
[Again - get the stuff tailored.]
Good luck!
