Need a single use suit?
Not sure of normal price but $59 is a bargain all the same.
I received via the WESTFILED APP but seems active on most shopping center websites as per link and a quick google.
https://www.stockland.com.au/shopping-centres/centres/stockl…
https://www.belmontforum.com.au/whats-on/offers/$59-suits-at-lowes
Considered renting?
Renting will end up being more expensive. Plus if you buy, you can have one for a court date now, and courting date for later
Or a courting date now and a court date later.
Or a second or third court date!
"Sentenced to six months for crimes against fashion. Sentence to begin immediately. Take him down."
"But I've got to return this suit by 5pm! The late fees will bankrupt me!"
Everyone needs at least one nice suit.
This is not one
if good enough for presenting a job interview… It has served its purpose
Turn up in a Lowes suit and not even Lowes would hire you.
Really that bad?
I got one from rivers few years ago at $80.
It is still looking good but the black colour just starting to fade.
Probably it worth to look before I would comment
Logged in just to reply and say I laughed pretty hard at this. Thanks haha.
Don't turn up to a job interview in a $59 suit…
i have a couple of man to man suits. as cheap as this and guess what i got job wearing it.
tbh. unless you are applying for a job in a fashion label or a fashion magazine. doubt they give a crap you are wearing a cheap suit.
Turn up a job interview in whatever you're comfortable in, within reason. The interviewer is there to evaluate your suitability for the job (no pun intended), not your wardrobe.
@iMagoo: exactly. most offices are smart casual these days. so rock up in that for an interview and you will be right.
imagine what image you will portray rocking up in expensive branded clothing in an interview for a non managerial office role.
imagine what image you will portray rocking up in expensive branded clothing in an interview for a non managerial office role.
I disagree. I have always worn a well fitted suit to all my interviews, and have a pretty high success rate. There is nothing wrong with dressing a step up from what is worn in the office - it is a more formal scenario afterall.
Being underdressed is far worse than being overdressed.
You aren't there to be assessed on how you dress, but how you dress does affect people's perception of you.
I have always worn a well fitted suit to all my interviews
Not talking about that. Talking about wearing an expensive suit. Balenciaga pants. LV or Gucci shoes. Wearing a Rolex or Breitling watch. And you're applying for say a low level office role.
You aren't there to be assessed on how you dress, but how you dress does affect people's perception of you.
There's dressing appropriately and there's going overboard.
Not talking about that. Talking about wearing an expensive suit. Balenciaga pants. LV or Gucci shoes. Wearing a Rolex or Breitling watch. And you're applying for say a low level office role.
You can get a well fitted 100% pure wool suit for a few hundred bucks - it doesn't have to be some designer brand. Get it tailored and you'd probably look better than getting an off-the-rack branded suit.
Just don't go wearing a $59 polyester suit to an interview.
If you feel it's appropriate to wear a suit, then that is not the appropriate suit to wear.
@xoom: The image would be professional, and a fair number of office roles require wearing a suit at some point, even if not every day. There's very little risk in overdressing for an interview. Doesn't need to be armani suit, it's not hard to buy a suit off the discount rack and get a little tailoring done.
I was hiring someone in our finance team a while back, in the phone screen he asked what the dress code was. He was told business casual, casual Fridays and occasional meetings/client visits with straight business attire (we were looking at ex-Big 4 candidates, so standard stuff).
Since it was Friday, he rocked up in jeans and sneakers. Since I was interviewing that day, I wore a suit (despite being Friday). It looked a little odd.
Doesn't need to be armani suit
And that's the point I'm trying to make. For the record. Casual Friday's or not. I will suit up for an interview. True story a few of our client facing staff were told off for going in casual (jeans tshirt sneakers) to a customer meeting at the clients office. Granted it was a Friday but still that's a no in my books also.
@0jay: If you're applying for a job as a brickie labourer and you ain't wearing an Armani suit and Gucci shoes .. you ain't making the cut.
/s
Some people dont have a choice, any suit is better than no suit for some jobs.
Will look fine over the webcam :)
Yeah even my waste of space hippy uncle has a good suit.
The suit quality doesn't matter. I've hired and have also been on the other end of the interview for high level banking roles and it doesn't matter. What matters is your ability and what you can bring to the table. As a bank we're not hiring models, but people who can actually deliver. If someone has the confidence to deliver in a $59 suit, all the better. A man is not his suit.
A man is not a bunch of questions and answers in a one hour window either. But that's generally how the hiring process goes.
Ultimately you're not being hired based on how good you look, but it does play a part in how you are perceived on a subconscious level.
Would you recommend someone turning up to an interview with unkempt hair and seemingly poor hygiene? After all, you're not being hired based on hygiene right?
That's not the same comparison. You need to wear a suit to an interview, but I'm saying it doesn't matter what quality it is when it's not torn or unkempt. Your ability and achievement counts more than a mere suit. But of course, if it gives someone who is lacking in confidence a booster, by all means.At a senior level it becomes substance over style. You can show up in a $59 polyester suit, and I will still hire you if you have what it takes to deliver the results that I need.
Sweet, that's a great discount on an assault officer/driving unregistered vehicle charge.
Eww. 100% polyester viscose. basically a tailored garbage bag - and looks it too.
Spend the extra and get at least a wool blend.
I’m all over this deal like a cheap suit.
its amazing that Lowes chose the right photo with the right guy to showcase their $59 suit!
fyi. 100% polyester is good at repelling vomitus
Sometimes the more expensive stores have much better quality for a great price (on sale)
Picked up a good black suit coat @DJs for $59 (better than these the year before) in sale last year, reduced from $360. Pure Cool Wool, Italian design, stylish, looks & feels great.
Used a $20 voucher from their free loyalty program to reduce the cost to $39.
(OK, not full suit but easy enough to team with inexpensive trousers. eg Target wool on sale.)
Also bought $150 Raw shirts there @$27 (without voucher).
Now looking for opportunity to wear it!
Italian design
Did you ask for evidence of this? I find it very hard to believe.
That's the claim on the label.
This $360 one looks more like the one I bought, but mine is pure Cool Wool Was a clearance line. Good buy @$39!
Designed =/ made. Find it very easy to believe really
Yes. Anyone in Italy could have designed it to fit that description - maybe an initial doodle by a child😉
That is just a sales pitch, which didn't influence me. I saw the price & tried it on!
Country of manufacture is not stated. Likely China or Bangladesh to keep cost low.
"Studio Italia" is DJs store brand.
It's Cool Wool with the "Pure New Wool" Woolmark logo. Good in summer heat.
Looks & feels good at a cheap price.
So fitted my buying criteria.
Person next to me found one @$27 for her husband. Too big for me. She realised it was still cheap after paying for alterations.
Plenty of Chinese in the Italian fabric industry. That is why northern Italy was so badly affected early on in the pandemic. All those returning Chinese coming back from spending Chinese New Year back home.
So yes, Italian designed doesn’t mean much.
"Designed in Italy, copied by some bloke in the back streets of Bangladesh."
And worn by an Ozbargainer at a wedding in Bali!
These will be all over you like a….cheap suit.
Most of the indicators in that article seem to point to their definition of cheap being "less than $500 or thereabouts". You'd be struggling to get a hand sewn suit for even that much though, unless you go to Hong Kong/Singapore etc.
Discussing expensive hand stitched suits is pretty pointless in a $59 suit Deal.
How many people check under their suit collar to see if it is hand stitched - as that article recommends?
Unless you are paying a very high price or ordered a hand stitched suit available in some Asian countries, it will be machine stitched - no need to check!
Sorry just trying to ejamucate the peasants. Anyway, which side do you dress.
I wear a traditional Myanmar Longyi (sarong) most of the time.
If you are a male, tied in the front, females at the side. Don't mix that up or you will be laughed at there😉
Can be worn with a suit coat for formal occasions, but teams well with t-shirt & thongs for every day use.
Oh, I have been to Myanmar so know them well. Didn’t buy one.
Anyway the question posed does not refer to that..,
@Foxxster: Sorry just trying to ejamucate the peasants.
Years ago, had a group meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, so wore my best formal Longyi. Checked the protocol to make sure how to dress on that occasion!
Anyway, which side do you dress.
I have almost never worn a suit in my life, even with important people (Minister of Government etc) in my business.
@INFIDEL: Nice, they seem like they would be more comfortable. And when in Rome, or even Myanmar…
And the question is asked politely of a gentleman when he is being measured for a suit.
@Foxxster: Most of my Longyi cost way under $10.
Very comfortable in the heat.
A young boy watched me after trying one on. He demonstrated the great advantage of wearing them by miming pulling it up to piss!
A much simpler, cheaper life!
Oh I know that question. But that's a question mainly put to people having a suit made or maybe altered. Not really an off the shelf $59 one! Don't think they'd list the side of dressing on the label.
@captdavo: Could be right….
The question about side of dressing & your response make an assumption of gender😄
@INFIDEL: Oh dear, well nowadays there are 73738 genders aren’t there.
Strange how the same people who say we have to accept the science of things like climate change are the same who tell us a man in a dress is a woman and there are 73738 genders. So suddenly science doesn’t matter.
But I digress.
@Foxxster: I think you are a little (gender) confused….😄
Gender is an orientation that may change over time. It is determined by the individual, not society of science
A person's sex according to their DNA is fixed & measurable. Science does matter.
Two very different descriptors for the same person.
"…a man in a dress is a woman" - not necessarily
I learnt that from my drunken Uni days😉
@INFIDEL: Right. Ah ha.
Well apparently it is ok for me to walk into the female change rooms at the gym and strip off flashing everything if I happen to identify or THINK I am female.
No matter that the gym is used by some of the local schools during the day.
And if you look at the number of people trying to reverse gender reassignment surgery and treatment then you might conclude it is a mental illness and should be treated as such.
Similarly anorexic people THINK they are fat so apparently we should accept that as fact… even if they only weigh 30 kg.
We should support and encourage them and congratulate them… yes you really are fat… keep not eating and lose weight.
@Foxxster: Laws & social attitude dealing with issues like that change over time.
It's all based on peoples beliefs & thinking - which are changing. In so many areas, what was illegal, became unusual, then accepted (by most).
But how do we know you aren't female anyway?
After all, we all had female genitalia once - in the womb!
If a male enters a female only dressing room here, the police will be promptly called!
It rarely happens here & is mainly done for media attention for a political cause - so is reported. That's likely how you know about the issue (overseas).
People are outraged - exactly as the person & media wanted. So you are just falling for their social change strategy!!
That's not necessarily the case in all cultures & countries. Others aren't so hung up on the naked body.
For example, males in an outdoor spa in Japan are not allowed to wear clothes in mixed company, females may wear a towel - it's a rule of use. I've soaked in that Rotenburo many times. Being a Foreigner is a bigger shock than nudity.
Mixed nudity is no big deal in some countries. I bathed nude most of my life. Even was in a local mainstream movie nude.
In my early teens - I was trying on clothes in a change room when a person of the opposite sex stripped off. I was a little confused, then intrigued - it was a mixed sex change room. Bloody hippies😉
Whereas bathing in some countries involves being completely covered! Muslim women bathing in East Coast Malaysia where I was, bathed like that. I kept a respectable distance & covered up.
So what is right or wrong? We could ask why Australia is so prudish & associates nudity with uncontrollable sexual desire? Hence enact repressive laws over what is natural.
Anyway, am comfortable sitting here in my Longyi / sarong🌴
My neighbours don't care & I've worn it into the workplace in the past. My boss loved it.
And if you look at the number of people trying to reverse gender reassignment surgery and treatment then you might conclude it is a mental illness and should be treated as such.
Oh dear! Get informed.
That's so offensive!
If someone decided to medically change your genitals without your permission - you'd be happy with that??
And then forced you to take hormones to change your body & characteristics into the opposite sex - you'd be be ok with that??
If you didn't like it - You'd accept you just had a mental illness??
Just think about what you are writing!
First, the number of people requesting that correction of forced surgery is very small in the population.
Past medical treatment was usually done on the basis of which sex was easiest to medically change into, what the parents wanted, and which sex it would be easiest to grow up into - at the time.
Times thankfully change!
The person's wishes & permission weren't sought for a life changing operation. It was something done to them! It would or should be an illegal medical procedure without consent!
Now individuals have rights to say what others can do to their bodies. Past wrongs are being corrected in consultation with the person affected by past medical mistreatment.
Their mistreatment can lead to mental illness.
But wanting to make informed decisions about their own life, correcting past wrongs done to them, is the opposite of a mental disorder!
A sign of good mental health is the ability to make informed choices to improve our lives.
But you claim it's all just in their thinking! A mental disorder! That it's not a medical abuse of them needing to be corrected if appropriate!!
Forced sex reassignment & ongoing medical treatment to reinforce that assignment is nothing like anorexia.
You don't have the knowledge, training or understanding to make such ridiculous medical claims!!
Fortunately, I only know this field from my academic studies & leaning from people personally affected that I meet.
I wouldn't want to be forced to change a central core of my identity, through sex reassignment surgery!!
Are you so ignorant that you do not understand how offensive your comment is to people who live with forced genital mutilation & hormonal change for so many years of their life??
@INFIDEL: Rubbish. Nothing to do with forced genital mutilation, these are people who volunteered to change and are now changing back so stop your manic hyperventilating and name calling.
As for the now, when for example I see a presidential candidate in Elizabeth Warren tell how brave a 9 year old is to transition and for parents to allow that then that is child abuse, it is sick. If you want to talk about abuse.
And if you are working in this area and support this DISGUSTING child abuse then you are as mentally ill as they are.
We don’t allow children to drink until at least 18, have sex is usually around 16, vote is 18, enter a contract is 18. But these sick parents and people like you allow a bloody 9 year old to change genders. Because apparently they really know they want to change. They then get to be adults as realise they aren’t really what they changed in to and want to change back. And it is sickos like you who are allowing this.
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/10/11/elizabeth-wa…
@Foxxster: Confirms my suspicion about your ravings!
If you are so confused to not be able to read, don't post rubbish about what you think was written.
From my studies a few years back in this field & meeting candidates…
In Australia the path to voluntarily sex reassignment is a long slow one with high financial cost for the candidate. There is mandatory psychological assessment. It's not easy to meet the requirements & hard on the candidates.
You seem to rely on US data, which is a totally different system. I don't think there are the checks to ensure the candidate is up to the lengthy & confronting process. What I was told at the time, some here flew to the USA to pay for the procedure without the checks & waiting.
So not relevant here.
Your untrained guesses from data that probably lacks credibility is worthless.
If you want to post links to your verified medical data I will look at it.
It's not a field I have had any involvement in, so stop making out I am in any way responsible.
@INFIDEL: Because Australia is the centre of the universe of sex change procedures. I did not realise YOUR LITTLE ARGUMENT RULES meant I could on,t comment on Australia or perhaps you are so ill informed on the rest of the world that is all you are capable of commenting on. I really couldn’t care less of your studies, they are clearly wasted.
Go away you idiot.
@Foxxster: Unfortunately, you seem incapable of understanding a field you are railing against.
That's defined as ignorance. That's not name calling - all of us are ignorant in some area. It just means you could learn if you want to.
But with the attitude you show, you think you already know & your anger is justified - that's bigotry!
So give up if you can't support your claims with the medical data.
US Evangelical Christian literature against the field is very simple & scathing. It goes against God's wishes. So it's wrong. End of discussion. Pray for the sinners.
I find it an interesting but very complex field as an outsider. These areas show up the wonderful complexity of the human condition. In Psychological training, talking with candidates for the long process, I would ask are they absolutely sure of their decision. I'm not sure what to have for lunch! I am glad I'm not involved - its way too hard.
What you perceive as the problem seems an artefact of the US medical system lacking our checks, balances, & respect for the reassignment candidate. It's dominated by money. So more likely to have problems.
And if you are working in this area and support this DISGUSTING child abuse then you are as mentally ill as they are.
Just wow - I don't. Never have.
RUOK?
Such extreme views often bury a lot of unexamined pain.
Talk to someone.
And it is sickos like you who are allowing this.
Another delusional claim based solely on your imagination.
Name calling & ignorant claims don't support your bigoted argument!
I think you must dress to the right😄
Crossed you off my Christmas card list 😢
Hidden you comments.
Have a nice night. Bye.
AT LOWES!!!
This deal has been running for a while now.
They’re not too bad, especially the slim fit ones - or if you’re a bit of a bigger bloke.
Thank you!
I just got a van Heusen suit for 59.
Great value!
If you are looking at dying anytime soon, this would be a good value option to cut down funeral costs.
As Australia doesn't usually have open casket or viewings (likely additional costs), you can be buried in what ever you like or nothing. No one will notice. We came into the world naked!
I've organised a few funerals. The undertakers never asked for clothes. It was usually what they peacefully died in.
So save that $59 for the wake🍺
(need not be alcohol of course)
Leave instructions to celebrate your life, by ordering what ever is on special in the latest Ozbargain Deal.
may look ok for a few days as long as it is not washed..
Who washes a suit?
this suit will suit you then!
Wouldn't be caught dead in this 100% polyester viscose suit - bought a $360 pure cool wool suit jacket for $39 from DJs
anyone have any pictures of the suits? need one for court date