How To Spot A Cheap Suit - Gentleman's Gazette

About this video

The Gazette team provides a detailed checklist for identifying cheap suits by examining eight visual hallmarks, including collar seams, buttonholes, fabric reserves, stitching quality, buttons, lining material, outer fabric composition, and interlining methods. The speaker demonstrates how to inspect each element in-store to avoid purchasing low-quality garments.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team argues that handmade collar seams and buttonholes indicate quality, while machine-made stitching and closed or frayed buttonholes signal cheap construction
• The Gazette team recommends checking for adequate fabric reserves in seams and cuffs, as cheap suits minimize fabric to cut costs and prevent future alterations
• The Gazette team identifies quality buttons as horn or corozo, while plastic buttons that break easily are a hallmark of cheap suits
• The Gazette team emphasizes that natural fiber linings like silk or viscose indicate quality, whereas polyester linings are uncomfortable, breathe poorly, and wear quickly
• The Gazette team advises looking for quality fabric brands and 100% natural fibers without artificial materials, and checking that interlining is sewn rather than fused or glued

Episode details: published October 2, 2017 · 445K views · 12:33 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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