Once I find a brand of good quality and affordability, I do my absolute best to stick with it. Tahari has been one of the brands that I’ve been fond of since my first Tahari suit was passed down to me from my well-dressed Aunty Kim. Once given the helm, I completely began a style voyage of my own (which I’ve found that I am re-discovering as my weight fluctuates).

It’s safe to say that I have suits of varying brands from about 2006 to 2022 and can largely speak to the overall quality shift in the suits of the past versus the suits of the present.

Quality

Again, I am big on quality! This is mostly because I am paying for it but also because I want it to look a certain way while I am wearing it!

A brand either works towards ongoing manufacture of quality products or they decide to join the masses and drop the ball while raising the prices.

Sad to say in this post that Tahari has seemingly done exactly the latter:

• I used to get quality suits from Tahari, and sure they would run me a couple hundred, but they’d fit perfectly and some [seemingly] tailored to perfection.

• they were a thick and dependable quality material with slips sewn in perfectly for ease and comfort.

• they were thick and smoothly laid enough to avoid that odd shoulder pad bulge that many suits have nowadays (excluding those that bulge because they’re a size too small 👀).

Link to Phone Case: https://amzn.to/3Ic36hc.

So then, who wins?

In terms of winning here, I would have to give the prize to Zara!

If I am still paying the same prices but getting a lower quality (no matter how cute), then I simply won’t be happy! I’m sorry that Tahari has put me in this place, but not sorry enough to continue to pay for thinning suits! I mean these things are thinning faster than a hairline! Not to mention the fact that they don’t even appear to be trying to attach (i.e. sew) the slips in anymore! Like, come on!

Until Tahari decides that they care about the quality of theirs suits again, I will happily be shopping for suits with Zara (I mean, unless they start making all of their suits in cropped tops 🙄, but that’s a topic for a forthcoming post).