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My friends and I, all mid- to late-twenties and in professions for which a suit during the week is de rigeur , tend to vary it at the weekend somewhere along these lines (bearing in mind a typical Saturday sees us meet for brunch near Green Park, then go on to a club for afternoon drinks before dinn...

So you would recommend a bespoke navy suit (that can be worn after graduation and to interviews), and a normal, possibly, MTM dinner suit (given that the chances of wearing a true dinner suit is rare)? Or I just might flout tradition and get a 'dinner' suit that is more like a business suit (for ad...

Assuming you've picked a decent college, at Oxford a well-cut evening suit is the minimum you'll need if you want to take an active part in all of the social events throughout the year. For every-day wear, subfusc is obligatory for examinations, but after that it depends very much on your social set...

Couch, greatest thanks for your excellent reply. The trousers are an inch or so too large in the waist, and very full in the thigh, so from your description of the process it is eminently practical. As for the back, I had in mind simply a splitting of the waistband in a 'V' to give that bit more com...

Having been an avid reader and grateful pupil of this forum for quite some time, I had hoped that my first post would allow me to 'give something back' as it were. Unfortunately, it must be on the rather more mundane question of the possibilities of altering trousers. For this I apologize, and only ...