The average dude needs at least one suit in his closet, according to the fashion experts. Both who the hell is average? New lawyers need at least three suits, and the old lawyers and corporate executives need 20 or more suits to keep this capitalistic system going strong. But you might only need five suits if you pick the right ones. You need a tobacco brown three-button suit and a two-button gray slim fit suit for those mad men days. You also need a basic navy 3 piece pinstripe suit to look businesslike even though you look like a business guy, all the time. Plus, a two-button sharkskin suit will also come in handy on those “who knows what’s going to happen,” occasions. And a charcoal double-breasted suit will be your lead horse in the race against corporate greed or when you just want to party with your cra-cra friends.
Those five suits will turn into fifteen different looks when you mix and match the suits for meetings, parties, and other casual activities. What man doesn’t feel the vibration of that mental stock exchange bell when he wears a three-button navy Italian suit. Or when he finds a navy jacket, charcoal grey pants, and a pink bowtie when he visits the MensItaly site. That tobacco brown jacket gives the navy suit pants an injection of anything goes styling or a case of “fashion for the insane look.” But when you wear the charcoal jacket with the navy pants, you have a casual look that is Saturday boardroom-ready, or you have a few drinks at the hookup bar outfit.
The right shirts and ties will also turn these five suits into other looks. That pink cotton shirt on the MensItaly site and the purple no-collar linen shirt in your closet will work with several outfits. And you pink bowtie, fuchsia, green, orange, and pineapple color silk ties will give you more options. You might say the navy 3 piece pinstripe suit is the suit that will make friends more friends than you know what to do with. But that brown suit is on fleak with a pineapple color tie. And that suit and that purple long tie will be the friend makers you never knew you had.