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Originally Posted by lowside67

I respectfully disagree with that. If you don't have a crazy bizarre body shape, I would prefer to buy a well made off the shelf suit and spend the $125 it will cost to have the jacket and pants tailored. I own 2 Hugo Boss suits and 1 Armani suit, which cost me a grand total of $1000usd before tailoring by shopping at Nordstrom's rack and the outlets on the way to Seattle. My total all in after tailoring etc is under $1500 for these 3 suits and I would put them up in terms of fit and finish against any MTM suits in your closet for a similar price point.

Mark

Do you know if your Hugo Boss or Armani suits fused, half-canvassed, or full-canvassed? If not, it would be safe to assume they are fused, which is far from 'well-made', unless you also consider $399 Men's Warehouse suits 'well-made' as well. Of course they have the name cachet behind it, as well as probably better materials and better fit. But the actual construction of it, not much different.

Not a slight at all to your purchase decision, I mean if you got them for a good deal and were able to tailor it to fit you nicely for that price, all the better.

I am a huge proponent of fit first and foremost, I'll take a well-fitting fused suit over a poorly fitting full-canvassed suit any day. Even if the latter is better made and better quality, if it looks like shit when you wear it none of it matters.