Elvis90

I buy AXIS brand no-iron black pants from Kohl's. On sale they run about $30 each, are very comfortable, and don't wrinkle. It looks pretty good with the jacket. Just be careful because the "Fleet Navy" color looks almost like black...but not quite.

ghilis101

Sam's tailors out of Hong Kong does a US tour every summer/fall (Chicago, NY, LA, maybe some other places). Once you go Sam's youll never want to wear non-tailor made again. Prices are very reasonable for arguably the best priced tailor-made clothing you can get.

Herman

My thoughts exactly. Our new Pit Bull puppy is only slightly more senior.

FmrFreightDog

You can do better on shoes than Crew Outfitters. I picked these up for cheap.

hoserpilot

The pants are Croft & Barrow and yes they match perfectly. I actually signed up for a Kohl's card to get a 15% discount and a sale price. Now they send me 30% off coupons a few times a year. Perfect for a cheap pilot!!!!!

Bucking Bar

Good shoe choice. I think these have composite shanks in the event you have to go though a scanner.

Margin | Men's Dress Shoes | Rockport

Always at the outlets. Typically $80.

NuGuy

Gonna sort of agree with Clamp here....

The Abbotts jacket is HOT, and I don't mean snazzy. The material is very heavy, and you will COOK wearing the thing, but oddly enough, it doesn't retain enough heat for walk-arounds in the hinterlands (say, anything north of IND).

Ditto on customer service. The lining tore out of mine after the first year. I happened to be in ATL, so I tried to drop it off for repair. Not only were they kind of cranky about it, but they refused to even work on it unless I had the jacket dry cleaned first (?!?!). It tore out again just a few months later, and the nice lady at the DTW Stop over Store fixed it for free.

I gave up trying to look even remotely cool in any of the overcoat options UNTIL I found a nice double breasted overcoat at Banana Republic. It was two benjies, but it's really warm, and has a much more modern cut & fabric than any of the ones you can get from the usual suspects. It even borders on useable in civvies.

The pants are OK, but a match is only necessary when you wear the jacket. There are more cost effective alternatives, especially when a match isn't required.

For shirts, I do the cheapo VanHuesens. They're one of the few that come in a tapered fit. If you remotely work out or try to keep in shape, every other shirt will fit like a tent unless you can get a tapered fit. There are some on-line sources for other brands, but you can get the VHs almost anywhere. The VHs last for about 2 years, depending on how you cycle them. I'm kind of fastidious, so I go through 4 shirts on a 4 day trip. I have about 15 shirts, so they cycle out about once a month (always have a couple of spares). That way I only go to the cleaners once a month. That said, once the VHs start to go, their decline is fairly quick.

FWIW, the Stop-Over-Stores, both in MSP and DTW, have been around for a long, long time, and they have come in really handy to me over the years for all kinds of odds and ends, from forgotten belts, to blown out shoes, headset earpads, flashlight batteries, emergency bag and uniform repairs and the like. I try to throw some dollars at them when I can (I have no financial interest).

Nu

kingairip

Anybody cleared the background check yet? Was wondering how long it takes them to get back to you after the "conditional offer".

pb4ufly

it's been over 3 weeks ... not a peep!

Purple Drank

No news is good news. If all is well, the next call is to put you in a class. Could be several weeks.