
A good tailor can do more for a dress shirt than most people realize. Alteration costs range from around $3 to $150, depending on what needs fixing, and the difference between a shirt that fits and one that does not is visible from across a room. Most men do not know what can actually be […]

Standard suit alterations average one to two weeks. Minor work, like getting pants hemmed or taking in a waist, runs one to three days. Major alterations like shoulder restructuring or full tapering take two to four weeks. During wedding and holiday seasons, those timelines stretch further. Express services exist at some tailors for an extra […]

Casual and semi-formal together account for over half of all wedding dress codes searched in the US, casual at 13% and semi-formal at 38%. Beach weddings add another 17%. Most weddings are not black tie. Most are not backyard barbecues either. They sit somewhere in the middle where casual wedding attire for men is the […]

Wedding attire is the most searched wedding topic of all time in the US. Semi-formal leads at 38%, formal at 25%, beach at 17%, casual at 13%, and black tie at just 6%. Most weddings sit in that semi-formal to formal middle ground where the black suit question comes up constantly. Can you wear a […]

Global formalwear was valued at $43.8 billion in 2025 and is heading toward $72.6 billion by 2034, at 5.8% CAGR. Men’s formalwear holds 48.3% of that revenue. Corporate dress codes are back, and destination weddings are growing fast. More men are facing the tuxedo vs suit question than they have in years, and a surprising […]

Less than 3% of men globally own a true bespoke suit in 2025. Only 0.1% of tailors still draft patterns fully by hand. And over 85% of what gets sold as bespoke is actually made-to-measure with a more expensive label attached. Those numbers matter because bespoke tailoring’s meaning gets stretched constantly by brands trying to […]