Looking for summer drapey suit
Hello friends! I’m looking for a suit specifically for summer weddings. Here are the criteria I’m looking for:
- fabric: generous, drapey, flowy, textured
- colour: somewhere from the spectrum of oatmeal to brown
- pants: high waist, wide leg
- jacket: generous lapels, low button point
- ideally has short options, or at least the coat is cut in such a way that I can get 1-2 inches removed without it looking off
- I’m undecided between single breasted and double. I’d like to go with double in my heart but feel like it may be too much.
Top of the candidate list right now is Scott Fraser’s draped brown hatch wool (first photo on their website), though that fabric might be too warm for the summer. In also slightly concerned it’s a bit showy, but the weddings in question are people I’m very close to so I’m not that worried.
Other brands I’ve looked at: Epaulet, Husbands Paris, Suit Supply. Lemaire and Evan Kinori both seem like great options but they are out of budget.
Speaking of which: budget is flexible but let’s say around 1K usd to start. Since im also in the market for separate trousers fitting the above description I’m willing to spend more if I can kill two birds with one stone.
Does anyone have more recommendations that fit the above description? Thanks!
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Was gonna suggest the chocolate brown Irish linen from SFC.
It looks nice! They have so many fabrics, easy to get decision paralysis
SFC DB with wide boys is the goat pick here if its in budget
and the pants are great as a standalone
I cant quite tell the difference between the wide boys and the classic wide.
I’m also slightly worried that all that extra fabric (db + wide) will look odd on my short frame. I’m hoping that my relative muscularity kinda makes up for height to fill it out
wide boys just stay a bit wider throught the leg
i dont think height will effect it
Nice, ok. Go hard or go home then!
Documet relax linen suit
Thanks, will check that out!
Just updating for posterity in case anyone is interested. I reached out to sfc and they said they could adjust the length and sleeve length on order. They also said that given my proportions they’d recommend the classic wide leg with DB or SB, rather than the wide boy.