Where to Shop for Suits in Sydney?

CacheHunter on 25/02/2022 - 16:24

I've just picked up a senior job in the Canberra public service, where I'm expecting that I'll be meeting a few times a week with Ministers and Secretaries. Therefore, I need to look more professional than I've been getting away with while WFH or contracting with organisations with less formal dress standards.

One benefit of Covid and WFH has been that I've been able to shift some unwanted weight, so that the suits that I had tailor-made in SE Asia the last time I was in a similar role no longer fit. Therefore, I need to go shopping for 1-2 new suits within the next week, but I have no idea where to go looking. I'd prefer places in/near the Sydney CBD as its easy for me to get there so long as the trains are running.

Once upon a time I would have checked out Myer and DJs, but I don't need fancy brands. I'm thinking something in pure wool, ideally around the $600-$1000 mark that will last a year or two until I get the chance to travel O/S again. Many years ago, the sorts of brands I would have been looking at would have been Hugo Boss, Staffard Ellinson, … but I have no idea if these brands have gone up or down market since, whether they still exist, or even what an average suits costs these days.

Does anyone have any recommendations for brands that will look professional but aren't priced over the top? What about places to go shopping?

Fashion & Apparel

Comments

  • Hybroid on 25/02/2022 - 16:28
    +3
    • Suit supply
    • Institchu
    • MJ Bale
    • The Bespoke Corner
    • Rembrandt in Macquarie Centre

    Few stores in the Birkenhead Point Outlet mall worth a look too.

  • [Deactivated] on 25/02/2022 - 16:44
    +2

    I would have been looking at would have been Hugo Boss, Staffard Ellinson, … but I have no idea if these brands have gone up or down market since, whether they still exist, or even what an average suits costs these days.

    You do know how to google, right?

    • tik tok on 25/02/2022 - 21:05
      +1

      Well, he's just got a (senior !) job at the APS - what does that tell ya?

  • bobbified on 25/02/2022 - 17:21
    +2

    I've been able to shift some unwanted weight, so that the suits that I had tailor-made in SE Asia the last time I was in a similar role no longer fit.

    People tend to outgrow their suits after putting on weight and there's usually not enough material to 'extend' the seams. But since you've actually shrunken, you can easily take your existing suits to the tailor and get them taken in. (if they've still got a lot of life left in them,

  • yellowfever on 25/02/2022 - 17:59

    Tarocash
    Connor
    $150 will do with spare change

    Public servant. No one cares.

  • altomic on 25/02/2022 - 19:44
    +2

    there's four places; there's the Suits Hut, that's on Third.
    There's Suits Are Us, that's on Third, too.
    You got Put Your Butt There… …that's on Third.
    Swing Low Sweet Chariot…
    Matter of fact, they're all in the same complex… it's the Suits Complex, down on Third?

    Homer: Oh, the Suits District!

  • djones145 on 25/02/2022 - 20:38

    panda
    VL
    herpes
    blueberry
    huge boss

    remember to get suit with the logo showing
    no point spend 10k on a suit if they can't tell the brand

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