After thinking about it for a while, I had saved up the cash and had decided to get myself a proper made-to-measure suit for those days at work when I really wanted to make an impression. I did wear suits at work sometimes but having a 33” waist (and trousers coming in either 32” or 34”) meant that while jackets fitted okay, the trousers never fitted as well as they could. So I’d gone along to a tailor in my hometown that...