Lawrence Technological University graduates its engineers in the Don Ridler Field House, two ceremonies in May, and plenty of them interview at suppliers nearby. Those interviews have a habit of leaving the conference room. Somebody says, let’s walk the floor, and the suit that looked right at the table has to look right beside a stamping press.
The two-half suit
Navy, in a wool with some body to it. Not the lightest cloth on the rack; a wool from the Signature Wool tier, $259 to $299, holds its shape when the jacket comes off and goes over a chair. A shirt in plain white or light blue. A shoe you can walk a plant in, which means leather, laced, and not new that morning.
Fit the trousers for standing
Engineers stand for the second half of the interview. Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, sets the trouser so it breaks cleanly when you’re upright, not only when you’re seated, which is how a lot of interview suits get fitted, and why they look wrong on the walk.
The showroom is a straight run from campus: Ten Mile east to Greenfield, on the right past the Lincoln Shopping Center. Come before the ceremony if you can, and the suit does the field house too.
Also for Southfield: Two Sunday Suits for Word of Faith on Nine Mile. More on style consulting, or plan your visit to our Oak Park showroom.
