Sharp City Suits
- By Kirsty Grimes
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- 09 Oct, 2018
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Made to Measure for Boardroom Success
These days it’s not enough to be the best at your job. You need to look the part. To wear a sharp suit that fits well and is comfortable to wear. A suit that seamlessly transfers from working at your desk, to boardroom meetings to after-work drinks. A suit that can be dressed up or dressed down.
Having a suit that’s comfortable to wear on your commute, that can withstand long car journeys, bus rides, trains and tubes, without creasing or crumpling is essential. There’s no point having a suit if it looks dishevelled when you arrive. You might as well wear jeans or a tracksuit.
While off-the-shelf suits are popular, they don’t suit everyone. How many times have you tried on a shirt to find the collar is too big and the sleeves are too short? Made to measure suits are the way forward and they aren’t as complicated as you might think.
Zebel is the answer to finding the best suit for your needs. The unique made to measure tailoring experience is second to none and Zebel excels as your bespoke image specialists, making you look your best in the corporate world. Combining a one-to-one personal service with tailoring specialists and skilled craftspeople, Zebel will create your professional persona based on your personality, colours, textures and style. You’ll look good and feel great.
With autumn approaching, the cut, style and colours of suits and business clothing are changing with the seasons. Greys and charcoal colours are dominating the autumnal season with a shift from the lighter summer colours, but not quite into the thicker materials and cooler colours of winter. In the office, everyone notices when you’ve made an effort. Whether you are the boss, or if you are trying to impress the boss, having a tailor-made suit that fits you perfectly raises your game and sets you apart from your colleagues.
If you look smart and take care of your appearance it projects an air of confidence and competence and you’re sure to stand out. It doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Self-confidence is free and the range of quality Zebel tailor-made suits is priced for young start-out professionals through to Directors and CEOs so that everyone can have the luxury of a Zebel tailor-made suit.
With over 4000 British and Italian Savile Row fabrics to choose from it makes sense to use Zebel’s years of knowledge and experience to filter the colours and textures that will suit you best. You’ll feel like a millionaire when you try on the perfect suit, the perfect jacket, shirt, trousers and shoes. It doesn’t cost a fortune to have a millionaire’s wardrobe and it doesn’t need to cost much in time either.
To find your perfect made to measure suit, it just takes two appointments. One appointment is to measure your size and chat about how you want the finished suit to look. Then the second and final appointment is when your suit is ready for you to try on and to make sure you’re happy with the look and feel of your suit. Whether it’s for a wedding, a job interview, corporate meetings, visiting clients or simply for everyday office wear, your finished suit will easily justify the short time choosing, measuring and fitting.
Once your made to measure tailored suit is ready you can really make it your own with exquisite accessories, such as silk ties or cravats, pocket handkerchiefs, leather belts, braces and cufflinks. Simply changing the colour or pattern of your tie will create a new look for a different day. If your jacket has a pocket, add a matching handkerchief to complete your image.
Cufflinks, belts and braces are often overlooked accessories, but they can add character to a tailored suit. A bespoke made to measure suit is an investment in yourself and your career and you can choose unique cufflinks to add personality to your corporate image.
If you enjoy motor racing, you could add car cufflinks, or if you like football or rugby, you can add the emblem of your favourite team as cufflinks on your tailored shirt. Or, add a touch of class with precious gemstone cufflinks, bringing a little colour to the cuffs of your white shirt. You can even match the gemstone to pick out the colour in your tie and matching pocket handkerchief.
Accessorising with mix and match designs will make your suit relevant for almost any occasion at any time of the year. Choosing complementary accessories will enhance your suit and draw compliments from all corners, during the day or night.
If you want to change your made to measure suit from a daytime suit to an afterwork suit, simply loosening your tie or removing the cufflinks will dress down your suit in seconds. The bespoke tailoring will make sure you still feel comfortable wearing your suit in less formal situations.
When you’re needed back in the boardroom, you can quietly slip the cufflinks back on, replace your pocket handkerchief, and redo the Full Windsor knot in your tie. Perhaps you’ll spray on a little cologne, and then walk in with your head held high, knowing you’re the best dressed person in the room in your bespoke Zebel tailor made sharp city suit.
Given how much your suit is probably worth, it simply won’t do to have it worn out every couple of years; you don’t want to have to pay the upfront cost of a suit on a regular basis. That’s why proper suit maintenance is so important. This guide will give you some pointers on how to properly care for your suit to keep you looking dapper for decades.
When you go to a tailor, it’s much easier for them to reduce the size of things than it is to increase the size. Whether that means making your trousers shorter or the waist tighter, you should opt for things that are a little too big rather than too small when you’re buying off the rack.
Back in the day, there was really only one type of business attire: men wore suits, women wore dresses, and varying from that was pretty much unacceptable. Nowadays, some offices are perfectly fine with you showing up in a t-shirt and jeans and there are plenty of hoodie-wearing CEOs. On the flip side, you probably won’t have an appointment with your lawyer or banker where they’re hanging out in jeans and a Hawaiian shirt.
People know that they’ll be judged based on their appearance and whether or not that’s a good thing is a philosophical discussion for another time. What matters is that the pressure is real. This pressure can cause people to spend thousands of dollars on plastic surgery, Botox , and other cosmetic procedures, when in most cases, all that’s needed is some fashion advice and new clothes.
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