Practical Menswear Style Journey * Chapter 88 : Cost-Per-Wear Part C * Saville Row * Tweed

Wherein I read some typical kind of exchange but have to skip three other topics for next time.
The tweed pants were closer to $200, btw, but advertised as Winter Warm.
I really, really wanted to read more of the tweed comments instead, I guess? But I already did a video about tweed and hardly anybody watched it, so go do that first and get back to me.
I really try to read the whole comment before I react, but it's harder than it looks?
I also think if I'm carrying around the bulk of extra fabric required to allow for weight gain up to 100 pounds in body mass for years and years, I will likely be uncomfortable in that suit, and I don't know where they would get the extra fabric for areas like the waistband unless the tailor puts a whole bunch aside for me at time of purchase to save for when I drop in for alterations. I don't live in London... or England, even. Or Europe...
So yes, I'm being a bit snarky, but also serious when I ask these questions that he can't or won't answer even if I had the money and wanted to spend on three SR Suits instead of the usual Mail Order ones I get when I think I need suits for some reason. Does the inconvenience of flying off to London factor in with Cost-Per-Wear? I would say it largely DOES.
I really didn't touch on some important points from the original video here because I got wrapped up in this Saville argument...
In the video, which I mentioned in my original comment thread, he talks about buying the dumb pair of shoes and then regretting it. He says they are cheap knock-offs and Fast Fashion and decides that they are not worth wearing BECAUSE HE DOESN’T LIKE THE COLORS that he chose. So, that actually doesn’t mean his CPW was low because the shoes were poorly made Fast Fashion, but because he changed his mind about the colors, same as my point about the lapels.
So, in HINDISGHT he learned that IMPULSE BUYS are usually a bad idea? Congratulations!! But not all impulse buys are Fast Fashion that lowers the CPW. If I don’t have a job that requires suits, but I scroll this and based upon your equation of SR suits vs. T-Shirts I decide to go and drop a bunch of money to get the finest suit, that would also be an IMPULSE BUY even if it’s a much higher quality item than a dumb pair of shoes that set him back fifty bucks or whatever. If I’m not wearing the suit to go work on a farm or something, then the cost would be $3000 and the wears would be ZERO. He still got more use out of the sneaker than that.
This is the problem when people try to apply what sounds like logic without really understanding the principle, or take logic to some beyond place where it is actually no longer logical. If an actual tailor presented this math to me in this way, I would be very nervous about the fit of the garment they would produce because it’s pretty much wrong from the start. [You prove yourself wrong with your own contradictions and trying to defend some fancy-sounding term mostly bandied about by pompous young people trying to make themselves sound smart or wordly or credible or something. It doesn’t hold up to a few seconds of actual scrutiny, like so much other double-speak.]
Outer Hebrides weather might need Harris Jacket in July, but some parts of N. America still have worse weather than Scotland and most people don’t wear tweed since the 60s even if they live in those places. [Most people in the world live in warmer climates than UK? Asia, for starters…]
First he said most people who WANT S Row suits can’t get one, then says most who get them need to hang onto them for decades. Uh, no. contradict yourself much??? But it’s not really about proving YOU wrong as just leaving better information for whomever blunders along and reads this far because they really want to understand this stuff. I’ve gone through phases of buying mostly at Thrift Stores and even attempting to make some of my own clothes or mend them over time and I find that it’s not really a substitute for trial-and-error with new things with different brands. Some are more disappointing than others, mostly for fit reasons rather than quality.
The lower price of the JCP shirt wasn’t the overriding factor, because the quality matched the price correctly for both brands. Yet, I didn’t have to get MORBIDLY OBESE for one brand of Large shirts to fit worse than another brand in the SAME SIZE, so the CPW equivalence went right out the window when Factor X reared its semi-predictable head.