Good place to get a suit in Manhattan?

[jackstone54]

Your focusing too much on a suit and less on what will actually get you the job. An experienced interviewer is going to look beyond the suit and may have a profile setup in his mind of what he wants.

What will get you a job is simply attitude and presentation. Dont bother wasting your cash on a good suit. Go out and spend a few dollars on a book like Knock Em Dead and figure out the real way to get that job.

I can bet you that a person with the right attitude will get that job over you in a suit purchased from Target or Walmart versus you in the 3000 dollar suit.


You have the wrong priorities is my observation.

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No, this isn't a joke.

For the time and effort I'm going to spend interviewing, not to mention the days off I need to take to do so, I'm not going to walk in looking like shit.

I want a suit that looks sharp, and fits well.

I currently do NOT wear a suit to work, and I've lost a lot of weight since a year ago, so the one I have probably doesn't fit too well anymore.

If I get a new job that does require wearing suits to work, then I'll probably want something cheaper for an every day thing. I AM targeting an 80 - 100K base salary job, so I don't mind spending 2 - 3K on a nice interview suit (maybe more depending on how many rounds I need to go to), and 5 - 10K after that to buy a new wardrobe for everyday wearing.

Renting a suit seems like a crappy idea. I'm not doing just one interview, I'll probably be doing many, so it's not like I'm spending 2K on something to wear just once.