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I've personally never understood the business world's obsession with suits.

Like, what does a deal need to be signed in a suit? What does the suit contribute to the deal? If it's to convey "professionalism", surely a cheap $300 piece of attire shouldn't be a stronger signal than whatever due diligence the two parties have done already?

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A suit wouldn't be the last signal checked, but the first - back which most things were done in person. It's not the signing of the deal that needs the suit, but the introduction. And once you've been introduced in a suit, changing it later is another signal that you may prefer not to send. As well as that if you've gone to the trouble of having a suit and maintaining it, you may as well wear it all the time rather than waste time figuring out if you need to wear it that day.

I think in the same way we have expensive cars or whatever to say "I have so much money I can afford to waste $x" we have suits to say "I'm so organised I can spare some effort dressing kind of impractically, just to look a bit better for you, my client"

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