Is £700 for an off-the-peg suit a lot?

[SpontaneousOrder]

About average for what I pay for an off the peg suit but that includes alterations made within a couple of hours so not quite take it off the rail and hit the checkout.

Mine's taking a couple of weeks. I think they're just busy as there was some kind of sale on when I went in.

Got sleeves up a bit, legs set as they didn't have a hem already, jacket hem up about half an inch - maybe less, and some bit behind my head to be taken in due to square shoulders.

When you consider the work to make the alterations I guess it doesn't seem so steep. It's just that the website said bespoke started at 750, so 700 off the peg seemed a lot.

[SpontaneousOrder]

I remember paying £100 for a particularly hideous suit in 1978.

It was, of course, beige.

hmm... I wasn't quite born then. And I remember a can of coke being 26p, so a hundred bucks sound alike a lot for a hideous suit

[xoggoth]

I remember paying £100 for a particularly hideous suit in 1978

Don't remind me of the only suit I really loved, early 70s, dark purple with flares. What happened to you little suit? How could I have thrown you away?

[greenlake]

Don't remind me of the only suit I really loved, early 70s, dark purple with flares.

Was it velvet too?

[original PM]

boy it looks like the taste police have some cases from the 70's to reopen!

[barrydidit]

Very Roger Moore era Bond.

Maybe that's why his films were crap - i thought it was the rubbishy scripts and attempts at humour. Perhaps it was the beige suits all along.

[Bunk]

That's nice Zeity

Got to admit, I can't think of any occasion where I'd wear something like that.

Reminds me a little of Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II when he's in Havana.

[mudskipper]

I've got beige trousers on today.

They weren't 700 quid though.

[DaveB]

I've got beige trousers on today.

They weren't 700 quid though.

I've got beige pants on today. Well they are beige now, they weren't when I bought them. They weren't £700 either.

[Sysman]

Very Roger Moore era Bond.

Maybe that's why his films were crap - i thought it was the rubbishy scripts and attempts at humour. Perhaps it was the beige suits all along.