With three high schools on one campus and families often having several children pass through, a parent in Canton can attend three graduation ceremonies inside four years. That’s three sets of photographs, taken in the same building, that will eventually sit next to each other in the same house.
Which creates an odd requirement
Consistency. A father in three visibly different outfits across four years reads as three different eras in a photo album that covers one. A father in the same suit reads as a continuous person, which is what he was.
So buy something you can repeat
Nothing that dates: ordinary lapel width, ordinary jacket length, navy or charcoal, plain. The suit becomes a constant, and the children changing is the point of the pictures anyway.
And keep it fitting across the four years
Bodies move over that stretch. Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, adjusts a waist or a sleeve between ceremonies; small jobs he can often do while you wait, and for bigger work he quotes the job and confirms the completion date before he starts, which is why May rather than the week of.
Also for Canton: The Suit for a Job You Haven’t Got Yet. More on style consulting, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
