AHC: Save the Three-Piece Suit

Make the world colder.

I can't understand people who wear those in the summer.

This, a thousand times this. A suit and tie can be uncomfortably warm in the best of times, more than that is deeply inconvenient at any time on the sunny side of an equinox, not to mention places like India or Singapore.

It seems deeply unprofessional or at least unstylish to be sticky or dripping with sweat, even if wearing a nice three-piece suit. How did people not collapse with heat stroke in the days before air conditioning or casual clothing?
 

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This, a thousand times this. A suit and tie can be uncomfortably warm in the best of times, more than that is deeply inconvenient at any time on the sunny side of an equinox, not to mention places like India or Singapore.

It seems deeply unprofessional or at least unstylish to be sticky or dripping with sweat, even if wearing a nice three-piece suit. How did people not collapse with heat stroke in the days before air conditioning or casual clothing?

It's the material. Cotton or Linen is much more bearable, and IIRC were the usual here back before AC.
 
This, a thousand times this. A suit and tie can be uncomfortably warm in the best of times, more than that is deeply inconvenient at any time on the sunny side of an equinox, not to mention places like India or Singapore.

It seems deeply unprofessional or at least unstylish to be sticky or dripping with sweat, even if wearing a nice three-piece suit. How did people not collapse with heat stroke in the days before air conditioning or casual clothing?

it's notable the current 'suits' are slowly pushed away by some corps and firms and such I have heard due to the ecological price of climatisation, the heating of cities and all.
 
Heh heh heh. You know, i'm from Wisconsin, and just got into an argument today with my advisor about what constituted "hot." I told him, anything above 80. He's from Kansas and told me it wans't hot until it was in the triple didgits. When I countered that I was German/Polish/h Irish and was northsea folk he told me all of his ancestors were Hannoverian Germans.
Finally pushed to my limit, i snapped, "Than something happened to you. 80 degrees is hot, and it sucks." :D
80 degrees is cool :eek:

I think a waistcoat w/o a jacket is a very interesting thing.
 
This, a thousand times this. A suit and tie can be uncomfortably warm in the best of times, more than that is deeply inconvenient at any time on the sunny side of an equinox, not to mention places like India or Singapore.

It seems deeply unprofessional or at least unstylish to be sticky or dripping with sweat, even if wearing a nice three-piece suit. How did people not collapse with heat stroke in the days before air conditioning or casual clothing?

The centers of production and action were more northerly than now.
 
I have bought suits on occasion, and I am not sure how easy it is to acquire "summer weight" suits versus the standard wool etc.


In one of the Ian Fleming novels, James Bond sauntered around Jamaica with a suit and sandals.


I was horrified. I tried a couple times to picture it, but I kept blocking it out...
 
If you want a more classic and formal attire,i think that you must avoid or reduce counterculture and late 60s changes.

or we can create counterculture that values being dressed well, like Sapeurs of Congo, or the mods before they started becoming hard edged. Problem is that they both started after two piece suits became formal, so we need a American, 30s version of the Sapeurs-- men who try to forget the depression by spending every penny getting dressed to the nines.

If it can happen in war torn Congo, why can't it happen in depression era America?
 
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I was horrified. I tried a couple times to picture it, but I kept blocking it out...
Pah, nothing can shock those who have faced the terrifying...Bermuda suit:

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Coming from somebody for whom everyday wear rotates on a 6-month cycle (late fall-early sping: jeans and a t-shirt, late spring-early fall: khaki shorts and a t-shirt), that TL would suck :eek:.
 
I get the idea about Dress Shorts for tropical places, but OMG why is it PINK!:eek: that violates every aesthetic rule :mad:

:p
Apparently, it's expected that they are brightly coloured. I think muted colours would be a seriously violation of the dress code ;)

And I must agree - As someone who once head to wear a suit while standing several hours in the midsummer sun, I'm very much in favour of climate appropriate dress code. But seeing as they keep the Jacket, I'm wondering how much it does really improve the situation. Seems to me, like it is more designed to make sure a certain body part doesn't overheat than for real comfort ;)
 
The Fijians have the right idea about compromising on business attire in combing the traditional sulu with a business shirt+tie+jacket.
 
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