Center Line is compact enough that the guests at one family’s wedding overlap heavily with the guests at the next one. The same faces, a year apart, in the same kinds of rooms. That fact settles the rent-or-buy question more cleanly than any argument about money.
What repetition rewards
Owning. A suit worn to five occasions in front of largely the same people gets better each time, because it can be adjusted as the man changes and because he grows comfortable in it, which is visible.
What repetition punishes
Renting the same near-fit five times. Nothing improves; each occasion starts from zero, and a garment sized to a number rather than fitted to a person looks it in every photograph.
Which suit, then
Navy or charcoal, plain, half-canvassed at $300 to $500 if it’s doing a decade of these. Bring the shoes; Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, sets the length to them, and small jobs he can often do while you wait.
More on wedding suits, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
