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How many suits should I own? It's a question I get ALL the time. And it's a great question. Like many menswear-related questions, there is no definitive answer or exact science to determining how many suits you really need. However, a good suit is one of those menswear and men's style essentials that you should have no matter who you are. In an attempt to answer the "how many suits should I own" question, I've created four categories of men--all the way from the guy who never wears a suit to the guy who loves suits and likes to dress dapper. See below.
0:00 - How Many Suits Do You Need? 0:59 - The Guy Who Never Wears A Suit 1:58 - The Occasional Suit Wearer 3:15 - Blinkist Ad 4:51 - The Guy Who Wears A Suit To Work 6:51 - The Men’s Style Fanatic 7:59 - Wrap Up
For each of these types of guys, I've determined the number of suits he should own as well as suggested styling details for things like suit jacket lapels, suit pocket style, number of buttons, vents and so on. It doesn't matter whether they're off the rack suits, made to measure suits, custom suits, or bespoke suits--buy the best suits you can to match your lifestyle and your budget.
I'm Brian Sacawa, you're watching He Spoke Style,
and today we are answering the question definitively,
how many suits do you really need?
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So the question of how many suits
does one person really need,
honestly depends on who is asking that question.
We're all different, different jobs,
different lifestyles, different budgets,
and the number of suits you need to have
depends on all those things,
as well as you personally,
and how much you enjoy wearing a suit.
So what I've done is broken this video up
into four parts and four different types of people,
the guy who never wears a suit,
the occasional suit wearer,
the guy who has to wear a suit to work,
and the guy who just really happens
to be into classic style and wearing suits.
I'm gonna suggest the number of suits
each type of person should have,
as well as which suits those should be.
So the guy who never wears a suit,
doesn't have to wear a suit to work,
prefers more casual clothes,
doesn't like to get dressed up to go out.
Even if there seems to be no possible occasion ever
to wear a suit,
the guy who never wears a suit
still needs to have one suit.
There are certain events, as infrequent as they may be,
where it is best, if not required, to wear a suit.
I'm thinking specifically of weddings and funerals.
And now if you say, I don't need to wear a suit to that,
I would say, it's not about you.
It's about showing respect to the people
for whom and with whom you are attending those events.
Now, because this is a suit you would wear
to a more formal type of event,
I would suggest a dark navy blue or charcoal gray wool suit.
Two button, single breasted, notch lapel,
flat pockets, double vent, plain bottom trousers.
The darker color is appropriate for the formality
of either type of event.
And the styling is conservative enough
that even the guy who never wears a suit
would feel comfortable wearing it.
Next we have the occasional suit wearer.
Doesn't have to wear a suit to work,
but wants to look good and will get dressed up
for certain types of events like a wedding,
date night dinner at a nice restaurant,
office holiday party, New Year's Eve,
occasions along those lines.
Maybe not crazy about wearing a suit,
but likes to do it when it's called for slash appropriate.
And let's just say that this is the type of person
who doesn't want to go overboard
or put a lot of thought, time, effort, or finances
into a large suit collection.
So for this guy, the occasional suit wearer,
I'm going to recommend having three suits.
A navy blue hopsack suit, a mid-gray wool suit,
and a khaki cotton suit.
I do the same type of conservative styling on these suits.
Again, two buttons, single breasted, notch lapel,
flat pockets, double vent, plain bottom trousers.
However, on the hopsack suit,
I might do a cuff on the trouser,
and on the khaki cotton suit,
I would do patch pockets instead of flat pockets.
I pick a hopsack suit simply because
even if you're not going to wear a suit all the time,
you can very easily wear the jacket as a separate.
Same thing with the khaki cotton suit.
Not only do you have the jacket as a separate,
but you've got a great pair of pants as well.
This lineup of three suits will have you covered
for any occasion and any season.
Now, before we get onto the next type of guy
and how many suits he should have,
I want to remind you that everything we talk about
here on this channel, of course, it's related to men's style,
but the real heart of it is to feel better
and improve yourself in some way.
I always say that putting time and effort
into how you dress has a direct effect
on how you feel about yourself.
And if you look good, you feel good,
and then you can accomplish anything you want.
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or working out, I love to be inspired.
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All right, next we are talking about the guy
who has to wear a suit to work.
Whether this person likes wearing a suit or not,
doesn't matter because it's part of the workplace uniform.
For this individual, I would recommend having five suits.
Three of them we're gonna do
in a quote unquote four season wool
and then for the other two,
one of them we'll do in a summer fabric
and the other we'll do in a fall winter fabric.
So the first three, of course,
we're gonna have our navy blue suit, a mid gray suit
and then I'm gonna throw in some pattern
and suggest a subtle windowpane.
Color here would really be up to you though.
I would suggest either a navy or a gray.
I have a gray windowpane suit that I wear all the time
and absolutely love and even for someone
who might not be into big patterns
or making a bold statement,
a windowpane like this is a really great option
to add some diversity and range to your suit collection.
Styling, again, I would stick to a more conservative styling
like I've talked about before,
two button single breasted notch lapel,
flat pockets, double vent and plain bottom trousers.
Now, as we are thinking about branching out
and adding some range to the collection,
I think it's important to also consider
a couple seasonal suits.
For summer, I recommend again, a khaki cotton suit
that I would do with patch pockets on the jacket
and then for fall winter,
you definitely need to have a flannel in your rotation.
A mid gray flannel suit is one of the most classic options.
I would style it conservatively,
however, I would put a two inch cuff on the pants.
Heavier fabrics like flannel really do well with a cuff
as it creates a little bit of extra weight
which helps with the drape of the fabric.
Now, if you're interested in having a suit
that isn't styled so conservatively,
this is the one, the flannel suit
that I would do something different with.
Instead of a single breasted suit,
this is a great one to do double breasted.
Six buttons with a peak lapel,
it'd be a little bit different
than the other four in your lineup,
but still extremely classic.
So for the last guy, the men's style fanatic,
this is the guy who really doesn't need my advice.
There's already so much passion, knowledge
and opinion there that it really becomes
a very subjective thing in terms of which suits to have.
It becomes not so much a need based process,
but more about curating what you like
and what you're interested in wearing yourself.
I think the suit lover will have those basics
and navy wool, mid gray wool or charcoal gray,
windowpane wool, khaki cotton suit for summer
and a mid gray flannel for the fall and winter.
At that point, I think it becomes really
about the love of fabric, color
and having options that are more seasonal options.
So for spring summer, you're talking linen,
fresco, solaro and then for fall winter,
lots of flannels and tweed and different weights.
Chalk stripe flannel is one of my favorites.
Really here for the men's style fanatic
and the suit lover, the sky is the limit
and there honestly is no limit to the number of suits
that this person could have.
Hope that was helpful.
This is a question I get all the time.
So glad to finally wrap it up and put a bow on it.
Of course, these are all suggestions.
There are no hard and fast rules here.
So everything is definitely open to interpretation.
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