The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?
Simon Cundey’s family have been tailor-making men’s suits for seven generations, taking 37 measurements from every customer through the Great Depression and two world wars. The tailor’s arsenal of chalk, scissors and thread were put to work every weekday since the company was founded in 1806, until March 2020 when the government ordered almost everyone to work from home.
“If there’s one thing you can’t do at home, it’s measure people for suits,” says Cundey, who has worked for his family firm, Henry Poole & Co, tailors on Savile Row in London since his early 20s. “The pandemic is, by far, the worst crisis the business has ever faced. It is far worse than the Great Depression or the wars ever were.
“In wartime, the allied forces were here so we made uniforms for Americans and Canadians, and we could still see customers face-to-face,” he says, as we chat on leather sofas in front of a roaring log fire in the shop, surrounded by 48 framed warrants from the royal family and other world leaders.
Post lockdown, Cundey and his team of cutters, undercutters, trouser-, jacket- and waistcoat-makers are back at work at 15 Savile Row – the street known the world over as the home of the finest bespoke menswear – and customers are coming back through the doors. But there are not as many as before the pandemic, and fewer than before the 2008 financial crisis. It’s a story repeated up and down “the row”, and at other tailors across the country, as well as high street retailers from Marks & Spencer to Reiss, and online companies from Mr Porter to Asos.
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/apr/18/the-end-of-the-suit-has-covid-finished-off-the-menswear-staple
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This old lady thinks suits are dumb. But you know what's even dumber? TIES!
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IIRC, he calls this shirt design his "life's mission." How incredibly shallow. 
They look uncomfortable and very restraining.
They are drab and colorless.
I don't find them attractive on men.
The men's tie should go down in history as the dumbest article of clothing ever invented.
For going out to dinner, or on a date I like blazers with a nice shirt underneath, no tie.
I find construction workers to be the sexiest men on earth.
A man that works with his hands does it for me every time.
When you can see a man's muscles as he is working on or lifting something, that is sexy to me.
I don't like the look of weight lifters.
They gross me out.
Just my opinions. 
They were meant to disguise where the collar attached to the shirt (collars were made separately back then). Now they're just ornamental. Most younger men don't even know how to tie one.
I'm with you on, not so much weight lifters, but body builders. My daughter and I call them "bumpy people".
My husband owns one suit, the one he bought just before we got married. Otherwise he has some casual jackets (what used to be called "sport coats"
to wear on customer calls. He looks just fine in those.
I was a newb programmer and we had to wear a suit every day. Every Friday was known as 'Ugly Tie Friday' and everyone would wear the ugliest tie they could find. It would upset management but we would laugh and laugh... Heh, so many ugly ties 
