Appropriate cloth for 3-piece business suit

[rodes]

rogiercreemers, That is good luck indeed and I am glad for you. For the rest of us, there is some solace. One of the few good consequences of this modern, casual world is that flannel is more readily viewed as appropriate for business. We may not employ it as you do, nearly always, but clearly we can wear it more often than businessmen of say 50 years ago.

[couch]

I take your point, rodes, but I'm not sure Tom Rath would have agreed in 1955 (or Gregory Peck in 1956)--at least in an American context:

[rodes]

couch, You are right and a very subtle observation on your part. The gray flannel has been held as the very symbol of corporate America in the 50's and this is in some measure due to the Sloan Wilson novel. Perhaps we could say that the suits that Tom Rath procured at Brooks Brothers when he left the U.S. Army in 46 had worn out by the early 70's.

[couch]

No doubt! Now if the LL Cloth Club had been around then, those suits would still be going strong.