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Personally I have nothing against Mr. John Fetterman, I just don’t want to have C-SPAN footage where the Senate looks like a locker room. Chuck Schumer should never have relaxed the dress code. This is the video footage that is going to be recorded for posterity and it will look like all of our leaders operate from either a locker room or a frat house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Hated Suites Too<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I grew up blue collar on a farm. Hated suits. Really hated the feeling of a tie around my neck. Then again, my dress clothes were the cheap stuff from K-Mart or the mostly polyester clothes from J.C. Penny or Sears. While the Stafford Collection Oxfords were great and would wear like iron, there was no way to feel comfortable in the other stuff no matter how it fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wanting a good paying IT job meant wearing at least a tie and usually a suit. (Wanting to work in the Senate should mean the same thing.) As my income increased it meant a suit everyday. That’s when chain stores like The Suitery and Kuppenheimer had a hay day. All of these IT workers needed suits and the cheap suits from there looked better than the cheap suits from other places. They didn’t last though<\/em>. Seemed like a dozen or so trips to the dry cleaners and the suits were shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally I don’t think I’ve ever bought a suit from Men’s Warehouse<\/a>, but that is what became of the two aforementioned chains if memory serves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You’re gonna like the way you look<\/p>\ntheir slogan once upon a time<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Just not for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

High Maintenance Girl Friends<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Every guy needs to date a high maintenance girl during his youth. For God’s sake don’t marry them or knock one up!<\/em> That will give you a short miserable life of extreme poverty. You need to date them when you are young and just starting to really earn money to learn how to dress better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t get me wrong, your mother taught you how to put on a suit, it was just a cheap one because they had a budget. She taught you where to buy clothes on a budget. The one thing you need to learn from a high maintenance girl friend is where to buy good clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marshall Fields<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Until I dated my first high maintenance girl, I had never set foot in a Marshall Fields. The chain used to have these high end coffee and chocolates days where high maintenance women dragged their men in to buy suits. The women would sit there being pampered while ordering the men to try on seemingly endless quantities of suits. If you didn’t buy the suits they told you to, you could forget about sex that evening and probably the entire weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just when you thought it was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now we have to get you a couple of shirts and matching ties<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For all of the young guys reading this, Marshall Fields doesn’t exist anymore but some other store will dust off the high end coffee and chocolates thing. You will not be done shopping until it’s time to take them out for supper.<\/strong> Resign yourself to that fact and negotiate a stop at Victoria’s Secrets to get her something you want to see her in. That’s how it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Difference a Good Suit Makes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully you get out of a high maintenance relationship before<\/em> it ruins your life and after<\/em> you learn wear to buy a good suit. A good suit is more comfortable than your favorite jeans. Good suits wear like iron and survive hundreds of trips to dry cleaners. Honestly the only reason I don’t still have those suits is they stopped fitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once you have a closet of good suits the only time you put on locker room attire is at home or when you are working out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manny’s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After your high maintenance lady you need to find your own suit place. I was lucky, I found Manny’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

133 W Roosevelt Rd \nVilla Park, IL 60181<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
I haven’t purchased a suit in about a decade. Still have 6-10 suits that came from Manny’s. They still fit and still look great. The last couple times I bought suits I was out of state and ordered them from SuitItaly.com. I didn’t make that a link because they don’t exist anymore. Fantastic quality suits though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr. Fetterman, you need to go to Manny’s. Big and Tall, he has it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Laws of Buying a Suit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n