Wayne State University holds its commencement ceremonies at the Wayne State Fieldhouse, which seats about 3,000. In a room of that scale, under a gown, at that distance, a graduate’s suit is functionally invisible for the entire ceremony. Everything it does, it does in the hours and months afterward.
Which reframes the purchase completely
It isn’t a ceremony suit. It’s a first professional suit that happens to be bought in the same week as a ceremony, and the two get confused because of the timing.
So buy for the interviews
Navy, plain, white shirt, correctly fitted. That combination is right in every workplace a new graduate will interview in and wrong in none, which is the only requirement that matters.
And put the money where it’s seen
Into the fit and the shirt, both visible across a desk, rather than into a tier no interviewer can identify. An Everyday Classic at $139 to $159, fitted properly, does the job; nobody on our floor is on commission, so that advice costs the person giving it nothing.
Also for Detroit: Sixty-Five Thousand Seats, and the Limits of Clothes. More on style consulting, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
