Hi, I'm Kirby Allison and here at The Hanger Project we love to help the
well-dressed take care of the wardrobes. Today I'm in New York City with Angel
Ramos of Angel Bespoke. So someone that is just looking to start out. You know
maybe someone that you know graduated college and they're starting their first
job. Let's say it's a professional job right. So it's not you know he's not a
California tech entrepreneur. How would you get him started? Like what
would you say the first suit that someone should buy, what's the second
suit? Kind of you know, if we were to just look at the beginning of that
customer journey, how would you. I think most people's first suit that they're
whether advised on or preached is typically a navy blue suit.
Mine's different. I feel like although I'm wearing navy blue today, the first suit I
feel like and my favorite suit that I love making someone at first is a
charcoal gray suit. And I think...that was my first suit...yeah...and it's I wear it probably
five days out of the week. I'm wearing it today. There you go. That's where I would kind of advise
someone's first suit to normally be a charcoal gray suit.
And here's the thing is, everyone's wearing a navy blue suit. Especially if
you're if this is a suit you're gonna wear every day, I would actually wear it
I would actually advise hey go ahead go ahead and buy a navy blue, sorry a
charcoal grey suit and then for your next purchase or if you can use it if
you can spend it on this purchase, let's just go ahead and make you a navy blazer.
Because now you have two outfits. You have a charcoal gray suit and you have a
navy blue blazer with the grey trousers. And so it's a it's one of those
versatile kind of like outfits that you can travel very well with and you can
wear multiple times during the week and just switch off ties and and you know
and you'll look elegant. So what's the next suit that you're gonna
have name for yourself? So every so I typically place an order for myself about every
quarter. In that is two charcoal gray suits. I always make it per
season. So whether it's flannel, a 400 gram worsted wool, or a fresco. It's
seasonal. I'm always ordering charcoal gray suiting. I'm actually at the point now
with regardless of what we have to offer, I myself I'm trying to create more of a
uniform. When I look at guys like Tom Ford,
he might design and create all these beautiful collections, but he's in black
every day and so I think I'm starting to move more towards a uniform that people
can know me for. It can still make me young enough for a younger person to say,
man he looks so elegant and he's young. I wanna, you know I'd love to kind of you
know work with him. At the same time, someone who's an older gentleman in his
60s can look at me and not feel like I'm so too funky and immature in terms of
my attire. And not to say, maybe immature's an incorrect word. But um I'm just trying to
as I I'm trying to mature in my in my wardrobe you know. Four or five years ago,
I used to wear pink jackets and pink suits cause I thought it was fun and it
was like super peacocky and then you grow and it's just and just you're just
like I just want less. I want more understated more elegance. You know kind
of given your experience and kind of your own journey, you know how would you
advise one of your clients in terms of kind of like a disciplined
approach towards building what in five or ten years would be a significant
wardrobe? I mean you said every quarter you buy something. Should someone just
say okay, you know every year I'm gonna buy three suits and two sports coats?
I mean like how would someone just say, look I'm gonna just be deliberate and
methodical. Being conscious obviously, budgets and price of what you can spend.
I wouldn't go quarterly. I would do seasonally. So um it doesn't have to be
a lot. You know it's again if you're buying the right pieces that are
timeless, they go such they go such a long way. So for instance as we're
kind of creeping into Spring/Summer, you know buy a beautiful like hopsack open
weave navy blazer, a pair of fresco gray trousers, maybe even a charcoal gray
fresco suit that can be paired all together. I always say every time you
order you should order you know, two to three white shirts. And although this
sounds like a very arcade and old-school way of thinking, I still preach if you're
buying a suit buy an extra pair of trousers. It's even though it's like you
know I don't want to really buy another pair of trousers. But um I actually kind
of bulk up a price to allow that to be more kind of like digestible than it
be so much more of an extra cost. So what's the idea behind having two sets of trousers for a jacket or a suit?
So there's two sides, one side is you know there's guys who
like the one trouser be formal with cuffs and and and maybe pleated and
then they use the other one more so as a casual trouser. Like flat front with
no cuff. I personally, I need two trousers because so I weigh about 210 pounds, so
I'm a pretty athletic guy living in New York I walk tremendously. I blow through
trousers like very quick. With my athletes I'm always saying hey let's
make an extra pair of trousers because not that this is because everyone thinks
oh I blew my trousers out, are these cheap? Are these like bad quality? No, it's just
it's it's fabric and it's friction. It's just it's inevitable. I blow out trousers,
not all the time, but now obviously I'm at a point where I have so much
inventory that I'm not wearing things over and over again. If you're only gonna
have two or three like pieces per season, I would buy extra trousers just so you
can kind of like almost like you know salvage things a little bit more. Well
thank you so much for joining us Ramos. If someone wants to get in touch with
you what's the best way for them to reach out? They can reach out to us via
our website or info at angelbespoke.com. Okay, and your website is angelbespoke.com.
And then your Instagram I guess @angelbespoke also. Well thanks again for joining us.
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