I spent yesterday afternoon searching through Guelph for an appropriate interview suit. Apparently, Guelph doesn’t have any.

We went to a zillion stores, and while one sales clerk in one of the stores was incredibly helpful (especially because he explained how to read European sizes, and then spent a while going through the entire store with us helping us look and giving advice), we only found 2 suits that actually had pants the same size as the jacket. Everything else had all the pants bought without jackets, and of course all the 6s were gone, leaving my options as a nice fitting jacket with either too-large or too-small pants. Since I’m looking for a suit and not just a blazer and pants, I can’t just pick a fitting jacket and wear my only pair of black wool pants or something.

Today I’m going to try the mall in Kitchener and see if I have better luck there. I really hope so. I can pretty much count on needing to get the pants hemmed by about 5 or so inches, so I’d like to find something suitable (see what I did there?) tonight so I have time to get that done as well.