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If your firm is business formal
About how many suits, shirts, shoes, belts, and ties will you need to get through an 8-12 week summer program without wearing some combination too often?
- daesonesb
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2 suits, 5 shirts, 2 shoes (pairs silly), 2 belts, 6 ties.Anonymous User wrote:About how many suits, shirts, shoes, belts, and ties will you need to get through an 8-12 week summer program without wearing some combination too often?
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Re: If your firm is business formal
As a student, I'd say maybe 10-15 shirts, 2 belts (black, brown), around 10 ties, 2 pairs of shoes (black, brown), 2-3 suits, and around 7 pairs of pants.
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Business formal = wearing a suit every dayJessep wrote:2-3 suits, and around 7 pairs of pants.
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I've never known someone to need that many shirts. I don't think my father has ever owned more than 8 at a time. He does own around 15-20 ties though. You aren't going to want flashy shirts anyways so get all your colors covered and then just get them dry cleaned.Jessep wrote:As a student, I'd say maybe 10-15 shirts, 2 belts (black, brown), around 10 ties, 2 pairs of shoes (black, brown), 2-3 suits, and around 7 pairs of pants.
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- ggocat
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Re: If your firm is business formal
I think you can get by with 3 suits, 1 coat (preferably checked so it can be worn with black pants) and 1 pair black pants (2 if dry clean only); about 8-9 shirts (3-4 white, 2-3 different shades of blue, and 1-2 other); 2 pairs shoes (black, brown); 2 belts (black, brown); and 8-9 ties.
I wouldn't wear one suit more than twice a week. Having an extra coat or two will make dry cleaning less of a stressful experience (no "OMG, I need to dry clean but I have no clean clothes to wear when I drop my suits off").
I wouldn't wear one suit more than twice a week. Having an extra coat or two will make dry cleaning less of a stressful experience (no "OMG, I need to dry clean but I have no clean clothes to wear when I drop my suits off").
- daesonesb
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Re: If your firm is business formal
Unless OP is SA'ing in Alaska, why does he need a coat?
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Fair point. No need for pants I suppose then unless you can/want to wear sportcoats.Anonymous User wrote:Business formal = wearing a suit every dayJessep wrote:2-3 suits, and around 7 pairs of pants.
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Hopefully he's referring to a sport-coat.daesonesb wrote:Unless OP is SA'ing in Alaska, why does he need a coat?
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black pants in business formal = extreme no no
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