How A Suit Should Fit

How should a suit fit? This is maybe the last thing on a man's mind, but understanding the suit or your chosen classic outfit is an asset.
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I'm Steve Samson. People call me a tailor but I am a tailored suit cutter and designer like in London's Savile row. Cutting suits is a fine skill to reduce fittings and support suit makers. I see fit and can tell you that when it fits correctly it's arguably the world's best. Your choice of cloth and style is your own prerogative. You need not look like someone else but a man does need to complete his wardrobe and make it enjoyable.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:50 Tailor vs Tailoring Designer
1:32 The Importance of Classic Style in 2024
1:46 The True Cost of Cheap Suits
2:03 The Problem With Wrinkles
3:00 Find Your Personal Tailoring Designer
4:25 The Importance of a Jacket Silhouette
4:43 How Slacks Should Fit
5:00 How a Jacket Should Fit
5:52 How Suits Can Add Height or Stature
6:23 The Problem With Broken Lapels
6:44 How a Jacket Collar Should Fit
7:34 The Right Jacket Length & Sleeve Length
8:25 The Right Pant Leg Length
8:45 Wrinkles That Will Destroy Your Suit
9:08 Italian Pitti Uomo 2024 in Florence
10:09 Book an Online Consultation
10:19 Tailoring Design Course to Earn A $100K Career
To consider fit one must consider long-term value. This takes good experience in tailored clothing for entry level buyers. If a cheap suit lasts 20 wearings due to poor cloth and pant fit it's actually more expensive per wear than a good suit. A wool slack that fits should have a lightly lined back or you can order a made to measure outfit with an extra slack to double the looks and life of your outfit. Your tailored wool garment fits when it works for you for years. When it's a classic cut it's never out of style.
To see fit start with no excess but a wrinkle-free jacket waist. Real tailors make a great shape so when you're standing still, your arms relaxed, your jacket and slack would be mostly without wrinkles. Wrinkles suggest stress and dysfunction with your body. They can not always be tailored out, rumples just need steam or pressing good wool when cut right shapes better reducing wrinkles.
Smart men with shape are cutting out the retail salesperson and alteration cost. More men are planning ahead to have it made from a reputable, reasonable tailoring designer. Having an ally in a personal designer is wise to share some added value beyond material, like dressing not just for respect but to respect.
The jacket silhouette creates vertical integration fitting into the slack crease it's fitting when you get the right cloth and is the next building block for your quality tailored end of your wardrobe.
Fit is a slack pocket that is relaxed and lays flat. Fit is the shape in the seat that shows strength and drape in the leg shows an easy elegance. Wrinkles in the pant rear and thighs will kill a pant and two your suit. Dimples are wrinkles, they appear on the top sleeve. It's due to a back that's too tight. Tight may be your idea of a tailored garment - but it is wrong.
Shape and drape is the goal of an excellent suit. If a garment is too tight and wrinkles, you will look too cheap to pay a tailor or like you put on weight or like you eat badly and or are addicted to working out.
Tailored outfits can give you height or stature. As a cutter I use the X Factor. The jacket front and back hemline when the button should be even to the floor. I call this the bottom line on which the silhouette is maximized. This is popular for my work in the film industry to make actors look taller as most men don't button up. The X Factor allows the jacket to stay closed without buttoning. This is a sign of a fit of the world's best.
A broken lapel does not fit, it's actually a wrinkle. It comes from a cheap suit with no chest shape. The lapel must sit flat as this cannot be fixed and will get worse. Buying direct from a tailoring designer will get you more chest shape and a flatter lapel.
Your jacket collar needs to touch the neck. Most tailor hastily take out horizontal wrinkles on a jacket back. This pulls down the collar preventing it and the neck from holding the jacket front and back in place. This keeps the jacket in a newish shape. Note this collar gap is common even among supposedly successful millionaires.
Most Europeans know that crafted collars are key to holding the jacket front and back in place. So the body beautifully shapes a wool jacket. The length of a jacket should not be obviously too long or too Short. The jacket length should be to one of the three areas of the thumb. The thumbnail for a tall man, the knuckle for an average height and the thumb top for thin or short men. The jacket sleeve length should show 1 cm of shirt sleeve. It should not shorten the shape of the hand.
We're glad you asked how should a suit fit.

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This is information that men out there really need. Good video.

[@rastrats]

Benefit - better cut. Thank you for the inspiration, sir. I freeze framed for where I could be going wrong. I'm sure I don't have any of these collar creases, but I will be on the lookout.

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Which form and material would you recommend for a deep purple suit?