Weddingbee Blog

Thanks to awesome readers from this post, Mr. Chick and I had more of an idea of what kind of suit and which designers he could try. We went to Brooks Brothers to try on the Black Fleece line, Burberry, and Saks 5th Avenue. Just to try things on, of course! I’m (mostly) a smart shopper, so I want to wait for sales/coupons. Maybe around Christmas time we can go out and purchase something…

First, we went to Brooks Brothers, of course.

Mr. Chick tried on a light gray suit:

With his signature flip flops, of course. Don’t worry, he’s not wearing them to the wedding. I hope.

Even though I think Mr. Chick looks very handsome in this suit, something about the fit of the shoulders is weird to me. We chose the Black Fleece line because he has a more slender build, but I guess his shoulders are a bit bigger than I thought! He has been working out a lot at the gym for the last couple of months. Anyway, I think it should look something more like this:

Images courtesy of CW

Okay. so I’ve cropped out Joanna Garcia in two of these pictures (she annoys me, I don’t know why!) and it probably wasn’t necessary to post three pictures of Nate to get the idea, but what is a Gossip Girl to do?

Next he tried on a gray pin-striped suit in the same style, a la Roger Sterling:

Again, very nice, but I think the shoulders need to be sharper looking.

When we were about to leave, I asked Mr. Chick ever-so-casually (yeah right), if he would just put on the light khaki suit jacket, you know, just for kicks. He obliged begrudgingly:

Here he is, smiling sheepishly, because he realizes that he looks damn good in it despite his previous protests against wearing light colored suits. That’s right ladies—we are always right!

I believe these were his precise words: “Wow! I look… GOOD!”

Here he is, strutting his new found realization:

And then I asked with a triumphant smile, “Want to try on the matching pants?” Him: *sigh* “Yes.”

He loved it!! AHA! Ahahahhaha!!! I knew light colors would look great on him!

But enough about me. Back to more suits. After Brooks Brothers, we went to Burberry just to see some other options:

I like the cut of this suit a lot more, but according to Burberry lady, they don’t have it in any other colors, nor are they planning on making it in any colors. Hurummph.

And then we went to Saks to try on some Dolce & Gabbana suits (ballah!):

I like the cut, but the pockets look odd to me.

Does anyone have any suggestions for where we can get a Burberry cut in a light khaki/off-white color?

How did you and your guy pick out his suit? Did you have any say in what he picked?