Tailored suits do still have a place in the contemporary office, but have diminished in popularity for a number of reasons.

One of those reasons is cost. It is so much easier to go to your local retailer and buy one off-the-rack at a vastly reduced price. For example, Tesco offer a number of suits of surprising quality for unbeatable prices.

People are also less patient. It takes seemingly ages to choose an off-the-rack suit, let alone a tailored one. Men simply aren’t good shoppers as a whole and would rather end their shopping experience as quickly as possible. Pain staking measurements don’t assist a man in terms of achieving that objective.

There are vastly more people than there used to be working in offices so the percentage of the workforce wearing them was always going to decline. Not every position requires that one invests in such an item. Holding a call centre job will usually just result in that person wearing a shirt and tie. To turn up each day wearing an expensive, tailored suit would make that individual feel out of place.