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When To Wear A Three Piece Suit - Wearing
Vest With Single Breasted Suits - 3 Piece
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Suits
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Hi!
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I'm Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men
Real Style.
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Today, I'm going to be answering a reader's
question, "When should I wear a three-piece
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suit?
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When is it appropriate?"
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"Antonio, I like your fashion and style tips.
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As a freshman student, I've felt I've had
a lot of growing up to do, so now I'm just
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starting to dress more mature.
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Well, you're welcome.
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"Just one question today, what situation would
call for a three-piece suit instead of just
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trousers and a suit jacket?
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Cheers in advance.
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Mark."
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All right, Mark, that's a good question and
it's one that we have to look a little bit
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back on history.
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The quick answer is that there are very few
occasions nowadays in which you need to wear
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a three-piece suit.
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In fact, I can't think of one except black
tie, in which technically it is a three-piece
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because you should have a waist covering,
but besides that, black tie, white tie, but
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with regular business attire, 99.9% of men
in the Western world use -- your two-piece
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is going to be fine, but let me go ahead and
break this out for you.
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At the top of the formality echelon, we have
white tie, then we have black tie, then we
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have business attire, then we have business
casual.
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Business casual, by the way guys, is a sports
jacket.
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I mean, this is business casual.
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I don't have a tie on.
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I've got a sports jacket on.
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I've actually got raw denim, a pocket square.
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This is true business casual, but there are
levels within that because there is business
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casual for casual Fridays and I realized that
what I'm wearing here, a lot of guys would
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actually consider more business wear, but
a suit I'm going to define as business wear.
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Let's go ahead and break that out.
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I've talked about four categories.
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We're going to focus on business wear because
this is where the double-breasted suit lies,
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although you do see the double-breasted in
black tie as well, but we're not going to
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go that path.
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So within business wear, we've got double-breasted
as the most formal.
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We've got single-breasted.
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And then over on the other end are the more
casual business wear suits and these are going
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to be in colors that are less than traditional.
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Also, they've got maybe a few style features
that make them a less traditional suit.
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It would still be business wear because you're
wearing a suit, but because of that, it's
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going to be more casual.
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The single-breasted is what we see most men
are wearing nowadays.
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The double-breasted kind of lost its place
in World War II.
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It was just something that a lot of men stopped
wearing when they came back from the war.
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In addition, it used more fabric, so a lot
of factories stopped using it because of rationing.
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But before World War II, there was a time
that the double breasted was purchased and
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worn as much as the single-breasted, but the
double-breasted was considered more formal.
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So how could you take a single-breasted suit,
which like this that has the deep V, and a
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double-breasted usually that buttons up like
this -- that small distinction actually made
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the double breasted appear to be more formal,
more buttoned up.
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So how you could you take a single-breasted
suit and get more miles out of it and make
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it appear to be more buttoned up?
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You put it on the same level as the double-breasted.
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Introduce the vest.
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Now, the vest or waistcoat, whatever you want
to call it, it was originally used by messengers
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who rode horses.
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It was something that you're outside all day
riding on a horse in the wind, in the weather,
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and you need extra layers, so vests were developed.
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They initially started off as big pieces of
cloth.
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They eventually became their own type of garment,
but it was meant to be worn under a jacket
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and to add warmth.
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It eventually made its way into formal wear
after enough use in multiple wars.
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Men began to like it.
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They find that they could contrast the colors.
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It added a bit of style to the wardrobe without
having them to go out and purchase an entire
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new suit.
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Jackets were really expensive; vests, less
expensive.
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You saw that by wearing a similar colored
vest, you could actually get the same buttoned
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up look as the double breasted suit.
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That鈥檚 where I would say that if you want
to wear something that is about as formal
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as you can get in business wear, then that's
when you could look at wearing a three-piece.
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A lot of lawyers put this to good use because
they realize that they're not going to go
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in dressed in black tie like "My Cousin, Vinny",
a great movie.
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When the judge tells him, "Go get a suit,"
yeah, he looked for a suit that he ends up
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wearing.
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A lot of lawyers realize that that small visual
makes them just look more sophisticated, makes
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them look smarter, and they use that to their
advantage.
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There's a lot of interesting case studies
out there in law schools and they talk about
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how even when you're choosing jurors and the
way you present yourself -- just look at someone
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that is up for murder or is up for assault.
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Look at the way they dress.
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They're wearing a suit in that court room
when they're defending themselves.
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They're not usually wearing a three-piece,
but it is one of those things that give a
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lot of attorneys the chance to separate themselves.
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Okay, so let me step back.
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What situation calls for a three-piece in
today's society?
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Very few situations, but if you want to dress
to the nines, if you want to look as formal
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as you can look without going into black tie,
that's when you can wear a three-piece if
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you don't own a double-breasted jacket.
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Hopefully that answers the question.
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I wish you the best on your style journey.
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If you've got a question, you know where to
go, mensstyleqa.com, my new website.
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I'm really excited about it.
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I'm getting a lot of people going over there
asking good questions, getting good answers.
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Let me know what you guys think in the comments.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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Bye-bye.
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