Southgate has been a city since October 1958, and a great many of its families have been here for most of that. A wedding tends to join two households with long local histories, each arriving with its own relatives, its own habits and its own quiet sense of how these things are properly done.
The suits do unassigned work
Nobody thinks of clothes as diplomacy, and at a wedding of two established families that is precisely what they are. A coherent wedding party tells both sides that this is one event, and it says so before anyone has spoken.
Coherence isn’t uniformity
Men of different ages and builds shouldn’t be dressed identically; a seventy-year-old in a twenty-five-year-old’s cut looks costumed. One cloth, cut to suit each man, is what reads as a party rather than a formation.
Which the rack has to support
34 short to 70 long with portly included, so the youngest and the oldest come off the same bolt in their own sizes. Roman, master tailor at Lincoln Tailor, on site in our store, finishes each one to the shoes that man brought in.
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