When in doubt, your best bet is a single-breasted jacket with two or three buttons, and matching pants in navy worsted wool.

Worsted wool suit, $495, by Tommy Hilfiger (center) ... The peak lapel and ticket pocket lend this black suit a decidedly younger edge. Photo: Paola Kudacki. 3/4. 6.

The most common suit fabric is worsted wool, which is (almost always) smooth to the touch, ... black, or charcoal gray, but worsted wool can be checked or striped too. Tom Craig.

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Woolen fabrics, on the other hand, aren’t combed before spinning. “Most of the stuff you look at in any tailor shop will be worsted wool,” said Mueser. “Most of the stuff you look at in any tailor ...

Which suit suits you the best? FULL FORMAL/WHITE TIE/EVENING TAILSThe most stringent codes of all types of wedding attire.Description: Tails in non-shiny black worsted wool with a cutaway front ...

IN THE 1959, film “North by Northwest,” Cary Grant famously tries to outrun a crop-duster plane in a cornfield while wearing a worsted wool suit. That the suit doesn’t end up in tatters (he ...