The Great Suit Misunderstanding

[curiouswombat]

My husband, speakr2customrs, bought an extremely smart, navy blue, suit for our daughter's wedding;



As he has had nothing to wear it for since, he decided to wear it for the christening on Sunday.

When he got up he pottered around and then went up to put his suit on just as we were about to leave. As he came down I remember thinking that his suit looked a bit crumpled, I thought he would have had it hung up better. As I thought this he said he was a surprised to find it was a touch tighter than he remembered, whereas if anything he had lost a kilo or two in weight, he thought.

Neither of us really thought about the suit again, went to church, had lunch... and when we came home he went upstairs to take his suit off.

At this point I hear a loud expletive from upstairs, and wonder what has happened.

He had just realised, as he took the suit off, that it was not the new one, but the older one that the 'wedding suit' had been bought to replace! No wonder it didn't look as smart as I had expected. No wonder, either, that it had felt a bit tight; he bought the new one in part because is old one was so tight it would no longer fasten!

So the good news is that he has most certainly lost weight since the new one was bought in January 2020!

But the funniest part of all this? For some reason it had not occurred to either of us that the suit he was wearing on Sunday was the wrong colour - it was mid-grey! 😄😄😄

Comments

[cmcmck]

The Scot had had no reason to wear a suit up until my father's funeral and then we realised he had lost a bit of weight!

[curiouswombat]

We think the last time he wore this grey suit was my mother's funeral, which was almost 4 years ago - and it was tight then. Then I insisted he try it on well before our daughter's wedding and it was even tighter - too tight to actually fasten the jacket, or the trousers unless he wore the belt on his pubic bone.

So he began to try to eat a little less, and then got this beautiful blue suit made to measure ready for the wedding that was cancelled by lockdown. We were both weight conscious over lockdown because we both had our wedding clothes ready to go - and on the day, as you can see in the picture, we were both comfortable in our clothes as we had both lost a couple of kilos.

My guess is that his blue suit will need the belt fastening a notch tighter when he does wear it, as he has lost another couple of kilos since - I haven't!

[kaishin108]

That is SO funny! But how cool that it fit him. Now I am wondering if the new suit will be too big?

LOL!!

[curiouswombat]

I am hoping the new suit is not too much too big - but there are a couple of excellent seamstresses who could adjust it if needs be.

[kaishin108]

Oh yes, it's always pretty easy to take a suit in!

[ellynn_ithilwen]

men are totally silly!!! this would never happen to a woman!!! :)

[curiouswombat]

Absolutely! I can't imagine any woman being quite so silly as that 😁

[elwendell]

Well, that's it. It's all downhill from here. :D

[curiouswombat]

But downhill in a vintage Rolls... 😛😛

[grundyscribbling]

When the story reached the loud expletive part, I thought the next line was going to be 'a seam had split' or something along those lines. Finding he accidentally fit into the old suit was a pleasant surprise! (And don't you all look nice in your wedding finery!)

[curiouswombat]

We both spent really silly when it finally occurred to us that it was the wrong colour! He had felt the old one was too good to get rid of - and he might lose enough weight to fit it again... and he clearly did!

And thank you! It is almost exactly 2 years since the wedding and the children have both grown by 3 or 4 inches and are a lot more grown-up these days!