What is a Summer Suit?

What is Summer Suit

Men's Summer Suit by TailorWear. Best in Mumbai

Having couple of summer suits in your wardrobe is a great idea especially if you stay in or travel to tropical places.
Summer Suits not only provide much needed width of color options but also make the whole wardrobe relaxed without compromising on the suaveness quotient. In fact, they improve the suaveness quotient to a very large extent!

So what is a Summer Suit?

A Suit can be classified as a summer suit basis either the fabric used to make it or by the construction of the suit. Actually the best summer suit would be the one which combines both. We will explain this below:

Summer Suits | photo credit: pinterest

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Primarily a good formal suit is made of 100% wool. But if the material used is cotton or Linen which are cooler fabric or even tropical wool (in lighter colors), the suit technically can just get away as a summer suit. ​However there is one very important aspect of the construction which neither many notice nor ask for it. This pertains to the body lining in the jacket of the suit.

A fully lined suit, displayed inside out

Suit Lining

The purpose of the body lining is to hide all the intricacies, trims & seams which go in making a jacket.
Lining also provides a nice look to the inner side of the jacket.
Any suit having a lining covering the entire inside is called fully lined suit or a suit with full lining.
Lining, irrespective of the material it is made of, reduces the breath-ability of the garment to a large extent. The jacket retains the body heat & keeps the inside relatively warmer.

In order to make a summer suit or a jacket, lining is planned and stitched in a way that it provides least interference between the outer fabric (which generally is either very fine wool or summer fabrics like cotton or linen) & the body. 
Such suits have either half lining or no lining. This makes the jacket ultra light and allows far higher degree of air and moisture ventilation.  

Unlined or half-lined jackets usually are more expensive than the fully lined ones. It is because the absence of lining exposes all the seams and trims. So it becomes important that the finishing of those is done in a far more detailed and robust manner.

Half Lined Khadi Jacket

An unlined or Quarter Lined TailorWear Suit

Now you know what exactly is a Summer Suit. 
So go for one or maybe two. these will brighten your wardrobe and make your summers equally sophisticated as your winters are... 

Linen Summer Jacket

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