A new survey found that the median number of suits owned by American adults is zero. All told, 51 percent of adults said they don’t own a suit, including 33 percent of men and 68 percent of women. Among men, 23 percent reported owning one suit, 16 percent owned two, 10 percent owned three and 15 percent of men own four or more suits. As office dress codes have relaxed, suits have become less necessary: just 22 percent of respondents said they wore business-professional clothing to work, while 47 percent said they wore casual street clothes, 47 percent said they wore business casual, and 26 percent said they wore leisure or athletic wear. Weirdly, “I don’t want the Twitter menswear guy to make fun of me if I screw up” was not the top reason for forgoing a suit I expected it would be.
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