{"id":20,"date":"2015-04-08T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tiesrus.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2015-04-08T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:47:07","slug":"the-gentlemans-guide-to-a-perfect-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/2015\/04\/08\/the-gentlemans-guide-to-a-perfect-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gentleman\u2019s Guide to a Perfect Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiesrus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/main-blog-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiesrus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/main-blog-image.jpg\" alt=\"main blog image\" width=\"598\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/main-blog-image.jpg 598w, https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/main-blog-image-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiesrus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blog-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiesrus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blog-1.jpg\" alt=\"blog-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blog-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blog-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blog-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Collar<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The suit collar should follow the shirt collar very closely \u2013 there should be NO GAP. The overlapping lapel should not raise and curve against the shirt, but lie flat at a straight angle.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shoulders<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your suit should ALWAYS have perfectly tailored shoulders. If they end slightly before or slightly after your own shoulders the jacket will not look its best.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Buttons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are wearing a two button suit jacket then only the TOP button should be fastened. If you are wearing a three button suit jacket then the MIDDLE button should be the only one fastened. The fastened button should also never fall below the navel.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jacket Length<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your knuckles should be even with the bottom of your suit jacket.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shirt Sleeve Length<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between a quarter and half an inch of your shirt cuff should be visible after your suit jacket arms.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Suit Jacket Sleeve Length <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacket sleeves should fall where the base of your thumb meets your wrist, not below, and not above.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trouser Length <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You should have around one inch of break falling over your shoes. Too much break looks sloppy and ill fitting, whereas too little break will show your socks or ankles.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shoes<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Navy Suits will great with black, brown, red\/burgundy shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Grey\/Black Suits will also look great with black, brown, red\/burgundy shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Brown Suits will benefit from brown or red\/burgundy shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collar The suit collar should follow the shirt collar very closely \u2013 there should be NO GAP. The overlapping lapel should not raise and curve against the shirt, but lie flat at a straight angle. Shoulders Your suit should ALWAYS have perfectly tailored shoulders. If they end slightly before or slightly after your own shoulders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[6,7,8,10,11,13],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-menswear-trends","category-style-guide","tag-aw15","tag-fashion","tag-mens-fashion","tag-ss15","tag-style","tag-suits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiesrus.tqt.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}