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Relativity And Buying A Man's Suit - High Quality Suits Compared With Lower Quality
Menswear
Hi! I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style. Today, we're going to be talking
about the theory of relativity and how it relates to men's suits, or specifically, buying
a men's suit.
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The question that came in was from a gentleman, Kevin. He's out in San Diego. He's a surface
warfare officer transitioning out of the military. Kevin wrote me actually a great letter, a
lot of information here. He's been going and looking at suits in the San Diego area, but
one of the things Kevin mentioned was he watched a lot of my videos. "The suits I'm looking
at are the Men's Wearhouse's most expensive suits that they carry." Everything else was
pretty good, but I wanted to go to this and I'm not going to knock the Men's Wearhouse.
I'm not going to knock Jos. A. Bank. I'm not going to knock Brooks Brothers or any other
manufacturer.
These businesses serve a purpose and they're helping a lot of men dress better, but the
point I want to make is understanding quality of menswear in relativity. What do I mean
by this? I mean that whenever you're out there looking for a good deal in menswear that the
highest line of any manufacturer is rarely the best deal. How I describe value is you're
getting the most for your money.
Usually, the way it's broken up, think of it like a car. You've got the bare bones,
you've got the mid-sized or basically what most people buy, and then you've got the luxury.
In the luxury, you're often paying for things that you don't really need, but you're paying
for the privilege to have. Well, in the center area, kind of like the sweet spot where most
people buy is where you've got the things that really are going to pay dividends and
that you do want to have. The bare bones, as you know, that's when you're getting stuck
with the stick shift and you're having to shift all over the place in a big city and
it just drives you nuts as your kids are screaming in the back. Don't get me started.
The point, relativity, what does this have to do with it? Well, before this gentleman
goes out and chooses a suit and goes with this higher end menswear house suit, he needs
to go and try on the best suits out there to really get a feel because he may find that
a midlevel suit at Brooks Brothers is going to cost him maybe just a little bit more,
but he's going to be at a much higher quality level. And the only way he's going to know
this is he needs to go to these higher end menswear stores and try jackets on. Any man
can do this and I recommend that as you're going through your journey to dress better,
you go into higher end men stores not just for suits, but any type of clothing that you're
going to be looking to purchase and see what the best is.
Don't be intimidated by these stores. Go in there and talk with the gentleman. You don't
want to use people's time unless they really want to help you look around, but be very
clear, "Hey, I'm not here to buy today, but I do want to look at it. I want to feel and
I want to try things on to see if this is the right type of clothing for me." What you'll
find is you'll start to notice the small details that, "Wow! These buttons are made out of
horn. The fit here just feels better on the chest. I like the way these shoulders are
built," or if it's a shirt, you'll start to feel the cotton and think, "Wow! This is really
nice."
This is important because you can then go back to the value stores or to where you normally
shop and say, "Wow! This is much worse quality and it's not worth paying. I would rather
pay a little bit more and get much better quality," or when you're down there shopping
and you're going through the thrift stores, you're able to identify a great deal when
you see it because you remember what you saw at those higher end menswear stores and then
go back.
I remember the first high-end jacket I tried on. I was in Kiev, Ukraine. I went into this
Italian luxury store. This was a $3000 jacket off-the-rack suit. I put that thing on and
I knew I wasn't going to buy it. I wasn't going to spend $3000 for a suit at that time,
but I tried it on and I was like, "Wow! This fit is awesome." It just felt like butter.
Well, maybe it didn’t feel exactly like butter, but I can't really describe it. I
never felt clothing up to that point that was so smooth and just fit my body the way
this Italian suit did.
I was in Kiev, Ukraine, so a lot of these suits are coming out of Russia and places
where the fabrics were not great, so I went to these others stores and I was like, wow!
There's a big difference between a $3000 suit and a $300 suit. Yeah, it may be hard to go
back down, but it will get you thinking and looking for deals, and you're going to be
able to spot them a lot easier.
That was the point I wanted to hit with relativity and buying a men's suit, is that you want
to know whatever suit you buy, where it's at relative to the scale. And unless you know
what the best is like, you're not going to know how far down the scale the jacket you're
trying on really is.
This has been Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style. If you've got a question, if you've
got something you want to add, I'd love to see you in the comments, but better yet, go
check us out at mensstyleqa.com and that's where I'm really able to allow the best questions
and answers to rise to the top. YouTube, these comments are broke. I don't see them half
the time, so I hope to see you over at mensstyleqa.com. Take care. Bye-bye.