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suits are flimsy and need to be dry cleaned.

not really, and you dry clean them pretty seldomly

Maybe you. I sweat a lot and if I'm wearing polyester, I stink so much even I can't bear it. I would need at least three suits a week and they would need to be cleaned each week. Tossing cheap cotton clothes into washer every week is much easier and I always wear zip-up hoodies when it's cold, so it's easier to thermoregulate.

Maybe it doesn't work if you sweat a lot, but undershirt and a shirt should absorb most of it. Or you actually get three suits and dry wash them each week if it's important.

(not the GP) Wearing more will make the sweating worse though. It helps up to some degree, but the soaking capacity of undershirt and shirt is not infinite. Not even talking about the discomfort of sweating even more due to wearing more.

> I sweat a lot and if I'm wearing polyester (...)

Please don't!

If you sweat a lot, wearing polyester is the worst decision you can make!

Not only it makes you sweat more, but it also smells really bad, as compared to wool or even cotton (or linen if you live in a hot area).

So that brings with it one of the following: (1) Be very careful, to an uncomfortable degree, when wearing a suit, or (2) run around in a dirty suit for a while.

Doesn't seem too practical.

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