Fashion Myths Debunked

The fashion world is made up of dos and don’ts, what you can wear and what you can’t, what is considered fashionable and what is not. The conventional rules of fashion regulate clothing choices, accessories and use of colour: Your bags and belt must match your shoes, you can’t wear dark on top and light on the bottom, and you should never match navy with black.

These were common mistakes I was told by my mother who insisted I wore a tuxedo to every party and insisted I wear black shoes to every dinner. It was common to be told by my grandmother who insisted that I wear a suit to every family event and insisted I change my socks. These are common misconceptions shared by many who wear suits to every occasion.

But a suit doesn’t require socks and is not a sock choice. A suit does require accessories and its a suit choice. So its more accurate to say that a suit can’t wear socks, its a choice, and its more accurate to say that a suit should never match socks and shoes. To illustrate, the shoe pictured here does match socks and shoes. But the same is not true for every suit. So even if you cannot wear socks with every outfit, you can also choose not to wear socks with many suits.

The next big misconception is the price, where most people try to charge as much as they can get away with and don’t count the cost of the accessories, nor do they consider the cost of the suit which can’t be bought with cash. The next big misconception is the amount. Most people tend to believe the price of the suit will go down each year and they expect the price of the suit to drop below the price of a suit purchased used. The wrong assumption is that the suit will remain the same, or with new manufacturers, even if the materials and technology are improving.

These myths are easily debunked by looking at the history of the company and the suit, but in this article we look at each myth in turn.

Myth 1: If a company has sold suits to a customer in the past then they can’t make them anymore, they can’t make different fabrics to satisfy different requirements, or they don’t know what they are doing any more.

Myth 2: a customer cant have two suits, a dress suit and a casual suit, nor a casual suit and a business suit.

Myth 3: The best suits are the ones that are made to exact specifications.

Myth number 2 is that of the suit. Most customers assume that, the better a suit the less likely they will get the same suit from a given supplier. In truth, most suppliers can deliver suits that are not significantly different from the best suits the customer is buying from them, even after many years of production. If a customer pays the least amount for a suit at the lowest price possible, he can get a suit that is not significantly different from any other suit they buy from a given supplier.

The major mistake is people make is they assume they know what they are looking for in terms of a suit when they do not. The customer has assumed what he wants from a suit, even if what he wants is not in the description of suit he has purchased. They might have chosen a suit because of the color, size, material, or fabric. They might even have chosen a suit because of its name, which would be an indication of the fabric and style that is going to be used. So what the customer chooses from the description is not a good guide to what the customer wants. In the same way, what the customer says is not a good guide for what he wants.

Therefore, customers have to write down their own descriptions on their own terms.

So before you ask a supplier about the suit to be used, you should first write down what you expect from a suit and then ask the supplier if the suit in question fits these standards.

If the customer’s description and expectations do not match the supplier’s description and expectations, then the customer will have to pay for changes to the suit. The customer will be charged for not only alterations, but also for the cost of paying another supplier to produce a suit that does not fit the customer’s criteria.

And of course, this is not even considering the cost of ordering a suit from an unknown supplier.

Once the customer decides what suit to be used, he should also write down the description of the suit he is going to order and then choose his supplier carefully. The supplier should also make a list of the description of suit they are going to produce. And then they should go through and asking which description of suit best fits the criteria of the customer’s specifications. Then they should make a budget plan to achieve the outcome of the suit ordered.

When the customer has ordered the suit, he should ask his supplier if he has received the suit he ordered. If the suit has been delivered, then the customer should ask his supplier what he should do next. The main thing here is that the customer should know whether the suit he ordered is indeed what he has expected, and if so, then he should consider his options and then make his decision.