{"id":234,"date":"2005-01-29T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-29T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=234"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:03:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:03:56","slug":"suit_shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/suit_shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Suit Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"suit-back.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/suit-back.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>\nI started thinking about buying my first suit a few months ago. I have a conference to attend in Saskatoon this February and the dress code is business casual. Although this three-day event is the instigator in this, I&#8217;ve never owned a suit before and, well, might as well buy one now (as opposed to renting or borrowing). And might as well buy a nice one.<br \/>\nThere are a couple factors I&#8217;m taking into consideration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would like to be able to wear the jacket on semi-formal occasions, or such as going to a nice dinner or a nice bar, and thus possibly wear it with pants or even jeans<\/li>\n<li>Conservative enough I can wear it to most occasions (weddings, funerals, conferences) but also enough style that it&#8217;s not boring and reflects my personality a bit<\/li>\n<li>As I understand it, go 100% wool, none of them technical or man-made fabrics<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t cheap out (which I strongly believe in, though at this point I can&#8217;t afford a couple months rent on a suit, but am willing to spend some relativley big dollars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"suits01-02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/suits01-02.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"387\" \/><br \/>\nI also need to buy: a belt, shirt, tie and shoes (no, I&#8217;m not going to wear the shoes pictured). Oh, and these pictures (shot by the g-friend) are of two suits from one store we visited, Hughes I think it was called, which was sale-priced and good service; British Importers was expensive and had somewhat curt and rude service; finally, Outlooks had expensive but nice suits and great service with in-house tailors checking out everything I tried on.<br \/>\nAnd I am still considering a used suit&#8230;we found an interesting store in Oak Bay, but need to find more outlets. Either way, a purchase is eminent in the next couple weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"suit-back_th.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/suit-back_th.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"100\" class=\"noborder\" \/> I&#8217;m in the market for my first suit, and went shopping for one today. Found a few I liked (with photos of two). Decision pending. Update Feb. 11: I bought a suit from Outlooks; details coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}