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This is why I’m NRY

Suits

Two questions and the second one is the expensive one: which cloth, and what is holding the jacket together. A floating canvas is stitched to the wool rather than glued to it, so it keeps the shape of your chest for years; it is also the one thing a price tag never mentions. Judged on cloth, construction and what the suit is actually for.

What you are paying for in a suitBetween £600 and £1,200 the cloth is the half you can see and the canvas is the half that decides whether the jacket still fits you in ten years. Only one of them is on the label.

Off the peg

A navy unstructured suit in a wool and cashmere mix with pleated trousers, shown on a model.

Worth being NRY

Provisional

Navy Wool Cashmere Suit

SirPlus

A black dinner suit with satin notch lapels and a satin trouser stripe, shown on a model.

Worth being NRY

Provisional

Wool Mohair Dinner Suit

Hackett

A navy herringbone unlined suit in a wool and linen mix, shown on a model from the front.

Worth being NRY

Provisional

Navy Compton Herringbone Cooper Suit

Favourbrook

A navy double-breasted suit in open-weave wool, shown on a model from the front.

Worth being NRY

Provisional

Wool Fresco Double Breasted Suit

Hackett

A pale green pure linen suit with an unlined blazer and pleated trousers, shown on a model.

Nice, but

Provisional

Ash Green Linen Suit

SirPlus

A navy birdseye-weave wool suit, shown on a model from the front.

Nice, but

Provisional

Wool Birdseye Suit

Hackett

A navy single-breasted two-button suit in pure wool, shown on a model from the front.

Nice, but

Provisional

Pure Wool Loro Piana Suit

Hackett

A navy suit with a widely spaced windowpane check, shown on a model from the front.

Nice, but

Provisional

Wool Windowpane Suit

Hackett

A black wool dinner suit with grosgrain silk peak lapels, shown on a model from the front.

Nice, but

Provisional

Black Hampton Wool Dinner Suit

Favourbrook

A grey Prince of Wales check flannel suit, shown on a model from the front.

Better elsewhere

Provisional

Stretch Wool Flannel Prince of Wales Suit

Hackett

Made to measure

A navy tropical wool single-breasted suit with a matt finish, shown on a model from the front.

Worth being NRY

Provisional

Single Breasted Notch Lapel Suit in Navy Tropical Wool

Cad & The Dandy

A deep navy flannel single-breasted suit with a notch lapel, shown on a model from the front.

Worth being NRY

Provisional

Single Breasted Notch Lapel Suit in Navy Flannel

Cad & The Dandy

A tobacco brown double-breasted suit with peak lapels and patch pockets, shown on a model.

Nice, but

Provisional

Double Breasted Peak Lapel Suit in Tobacco Wool, Silk and Linen

Cad & The Dandy

A muted brown cotton seersucker suit with a puckered texture, shown on a model from the front.

Nice, but

Provisional

Single Breasted Notch Lapel Suit in Brown Seersucker

Cad & The Dandy