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[Fishead soup]

Which Nationality looks the worse in a suit?

[blackjack]

I would say none of the above. I would probably say kiwis; I know I look terrible, I just don't look like myself and most other kiwis I have seen wearing suits are the same. Like serving a hamburger in a fine dining resturant

[peach]

worst.

[semphoon]

I think Asians look good in suits as they are usually slender. By comparison, westerners are usually fat and sweaty in a suit.
*I'm a westerner.

Go to the park on a Sunday and notice how many korean guys are still wearing suits. Strange. Myabe when you work such long hours, your body starts to physically reject other clothes

[cangel]

For just plain WTF styling, the Koreans win hands down. Teflon should be paid royalties... Japanese men tend to wear their suits ragged so they look pretty ratty.

[jvalmer]

It's hard not to look good in a suit. Unless, you're wearing one of those 70's disco suits.

[eamo]

Men look good in suits when they feel comfortable and confident wearing one. One should wear a suit as casually as jeans and t-shirt.

You can see the self-conscious suit wearers. They look stiff. They usually have all the buttons done up. Terrible. The tie is too tight. Awful. Pants too long so the material sits in folds at the bottom. Nightmare.

Young male sales assistants in department stores are the biggest sinnners. They look so uncomfortable in their new-suit-for-new-job.

It's called the 'farmer-in-a-suit' look. I see lots of Korean men like that.


Oddly though, I've noticed a lot of Korea's high-powered politicians and businessmen on TV are going without the tie! Very surprising for formal Korea. It looks good though.......

[cruisemonkey]

[it's full of stars]

I think the Korean guys in suits on Sundays are probably Koristians. Reminds me of Sundays back home when I was a lad, and people went to church dressed up, ergo, Sunday best.

[Cherbear]

The beauty of a suit is it makes even the fattest most disgusting man look halfway decent. Korean men have wised to this reality. Western men could really kick it up a notch. The raggedy jeans and sweatshirts need to go.

[Bryan]

Suits usually look retarded on bodybuilders, especially if you haven't got a custom made one.

[shifty]

If you see a gentleman clad in cloth pile suit wending his way over to you, expect a sales pitch without delay or further niceties.

Koreans are over reliant on suits to make up for sheer lack of substance.

Wear a suit on your wedding day, otherwise be real. That's all.

[Ilsanman]

I voted for Koreans based upon 2 things:

1. My first impression of a man wearing a suit is a gentleman. When that 'gentleman' spits and horks logies, smokes and blows it all over children, and the like, it looks bad.

2. Wearing a wifebeater under the Y-shirt. Maybe Japanese and Chinese do it too, but I've never seen it.

[tzechuk]

A well-tailored suit looks good on anyone.. but the key here is *well-tailored*.

When Rho Moo Hyun made his trip to North Korea before he finished as the president, there were shots of NorKs men wearing suits and they looked absolutely horrible because they were thin, the suits were too big on them and the effect was almost like they were scarecrows.

That being said, older Asian men are generally quite thin, so suits do hang on them rather loosely.. that's why if my husband buys a suit off the rack, I actually take him to our tailor to have it fitted. He (the hubby) finds that quite annoying but he goes along with it.

[sargx]