Non tailor made suits- separate jackets and trousers?

**GarageBoy** · 10-21-2009, 10:25 AM

Who sells them separately. I hate how the pants wear out much faster than the jacket and was wondering who sells them separately?

**Cuttingboard** · 10-21-2009, 11:44 AM

Banana Republic & J Crew.

**Bobtrumpet** · 10-21-2009, 12:11 PM

The J. C. Penney line of Stafford suits can be bought as separates. Fairly conservative styles. Penney's seems to have frequent sales in the men's dept.

Edit: I forgot that Jos. A. Bank also sells several lines of separates (more $ than the Penney's stuff).

**LeverTime** · 10-21-2009, 12:27 PM

Brooks Brothers also has them. They are called "suit separates."

**benvh** · 10-21-2009, 12:47 PM

Macy's too. I have a Calvin Klein suit that I bought there. I needed it right away and didn't have time to get a "real" suit tailored (although I still got it tailored later on). I was there last weekend and saw a bunch on sale.

**flabajaba2213** · 10-21-2009, 01:55 PM

Kohl's separates are pretty decent, especially if you have an athletic physique like I do! (read that as having big legs).

**Doc4** · 10-21-2009, 03:53 PM

Beware.

If the pants and jacket are made with cloth from different dye lots, the colour can be off a bit, causing a suprisingly bad look to your 'suit'. Hopefully if you buy all the pieces at the same time you might have a better chance of getting pieces all from the same dye lot, but there is no guarantee. Coming back a year later to buy an extra pair of pants ... good luck.

Of course, if you can buy in person rather than over the internet, you stand a better chance, too.