How to make your suit fit the right way can be a whole series of guides, but we will give you the basics here. Sometimes, it can be hard to find a suit with for example the right sleeve length. Tailoring adjustments, if needed, can be an easy way make your suit fit better! This can give you many more options, if you have a hard time to find suits that fit. Simple and inexpensive adjustments are the length of trousers or the jacket sleeves or the width of the trouser waist. Generally, a suit should drape nicely on the person who wears it. Not fit too tight, or too loose. It should flatter the wearers frame, but not show the contour of your muscles. Then it is too tight.

The most important measurement is the width between the shoulder seams. Generally, your suit jacket should neither hug your shoulders too tightly, nor should the shoulder seams droop over your shoulder. The second most important measurement is the sleeve length. If your sleeves are too long, your whole suit jacket will look too big on you, no matter how well it fits otherwise. The sleeve length should always allow your shirt sleeve to peek out about one cm or two. The outfit examples below show a good sleeve length. If the sleeve is too long, it’s easy to shorten it.

If you choose to wear your suit with a belt, a starting point is to wear a brown belt if you are wearing brown shoes, and a black belt if you are wearing black shoes. If you need to wear a belt to prevent you suit trousers form falling off your waist, your trousers are too big, and you should have the waist taken in by a tailor. An inexpensive alteration that will make your suit look a million times better on you.

One of the most common questions is what shirt to wear with a blue suit? To put it shortly, it is hard to go wrong when choosing shirt colour for your blue suit. There are, however, shirts that work and look better in certain situations. The combination blue suit and blue shirt, or a blue suit with a white shirt, are always good starting points, that are always right. The white shirt will make your combination appear somewhat more formal and crisp, while the blue shirt will give a more laid-back appearance. Patterned shirts like striped and checkered shirts with a blue suit, makes the outfit appear a bit more casual. A solid beige or light brown shirt will give a good everyday combination, preferably worn with brown shoes. A general rule of thumb is: The louder the shirt, the more casual it will make your suit appear.

Mixing a blue suit with a black shirt is purely a matter of personal preference. Without going into philosophical depth on the matter, the black shirt will give your outfit a touch of attitude. Two pieces of advice here are: Make sure your black shirt is not faded and worn if you wear it with a blue suit or blazer. Black cotton often fades quickly, especially shirts of lesser quality. This will immediately kill the black shirt magic and make the impression less impactful. We usually refrain from giving pointers, but would advise to think twice before you wear a white tie with your black shirt and jacket combination. To put it shortly, it might just take over the whole show a bit too much. In Sweden, white ties are also strongly connected to funeral attire.

To put it simply: The right pocket square for a blue suit, should connect with the shirt you are wearing, colour-wise. If you are not sure where to start, a crisp white linen or cotton handkerchief, discretely folded and tucked into your chest pocket, will always be right, no matter what shirt you wear. The white pocket square looks best though worn with white shirts, or shirts that has white in their patterns. Wearing a bright red handkerchief creates a loud visual focus that takes over most of the impression of your outfit, while your goal is rather to create a complete good balance between your suit, shirt, tie and shoes. If you go for a colourful handkerchief, strive to find one that has a pattern containing a colour found either in your jacket or your shirt. This will connect your handkerchief to the complete outfit.

When it comes to choosing ties for your blue suit, we advise you to read our separate guide on that topic, but generally ties in colours like burgundy, brown, navy, forest green, rusty orange look good worn with a blue suit. A black tie worn with a white or blue shirt, white pocket square and black shoes is an ultra-classic clean combination suitable for several occasions.

A good way of making casual suit combinations more interesting and well put together is to incorporate details like a good wristwatch or a bracelet, perhaps a scarf and your favourite bag. This way you can enjoy your blue suit in so many more situations than on the most formal occasion.

How to choose shoes for blue suits is less complicated than you might think, but we have some general pieces of advice to give you on the way. Traditionally black dress shoes are often considered the most correct option, but the only times you “have to” wear black shoes with your blue suit is if the dress code where you are, requires it. When wearing a blue suit, your goal is simply to create a pleasant visual harmony making you look good. For this, a blue suit with brown shoes, preferably dark brown shoes, will create a very soft harmony between the low contrast combination of colours. Brown shoes will also make your blue suit appear far less formal. White clean sneakers and a white t-shirt will turn your suit into a clean, minimal everyday garment.