The Paint Creek Trail starts in Rochester Municipal Park and runs 8.9 miles north to Lake Orion, out of downtown and through the wooded parks, and a town with a trail down the middle of it develops habits. People here spend the late afternoon outside and then go somewhere for dinner, often without a proper break in between, and that’s a specific clothing problem hardly anyone plans for.
The problem stated plainly
Whatever a man was doing outdoors, he now needs to look as though he was always going to dinner. Changing entirely is rarely practical. What works is having one garment that upgrades everything underneath it.
That garment is a jacket
Not a suit jacket separated from its trousers, which usually looks orphaned, but a jacket bought to stand alone. Select suits on our floor sell as separates, so this can be a deliberate purchase rather than an accident of a suit coming apart.
How it should be cut
To be worn open, which means the collar must lie flat with nothing holding it and the length must not be so short that it looks like a shrunken suit. Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, sets both, and small jobs he can often do while you wait.
Also for Rochester: A School Built in 1889 Because the Last One Burned. More on style consulting, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
