Telegraph offices. ‘It’s a job interview, isn’t it?’ said the first person. Then, ‘Meeting the bank manager?’ Closely followed by, ‘Are you going to a funeral?’ A funeral for the suit, perhaps.Suit sales, we are told, are in decline.
Even before Covid, major banks and corporations were relaxing their policy on wearing suits to the office: in 2019, the market research group Kantar was reporting that more than £110 million had been wiped off annual suit sales in just four years.
But the pandemic has driven another nail into the coffin.In August, Marks & Spencer announced it had stopped stocking suits across more than half of its 245 clothing stores, apparently to ‘be more relevant to customers’ rapidly changing needs’.
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