Here's a trick: get your measurements, accurately, have someone do it for you with a tape measure. Then scour eBay and be patient. Eventually a suit that was hand-made for someone of your exact dimensions will come up, then you have to grab it. Whatever you pay won't be a fraction even of what it cost originally.
That implies the following:
-you have a computer
-you have internet
-you have an email address
-you have any idea what ebay is (no seriously...that's not a reasonable assumption to make)
-you have the money to buy THAT suit (oh, and a credit card and a paypal account)
-you have somewhere safe to have it shipped
-you even understand the lingo of suiting enough to what to look for.
The company I currenlty work for recently hired a technician. The role is something we would call technical today but probably 15 years ago would have been the product of a vocational education. Those programs have been eliminated and pushed on companies to train for instead, companies that usually want experience before they will train. This week, our new guy (24 years old, self supporting, has a kid and a house) sent his first email. Obviously not all of these apply to every situation but the level of abstraction required to understand why this makes no sense to people like us isn't easy for most people.
