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The best summer suits for showing the oncoming heatwave who's boss
If the sun’s beating down but you still need to dress formal, don’t sweat it. Here are the best summer suits that will keep you feeling and looking cool all sun season
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The opportunity to wear your best suit has been far more regular in 2024 than in the past few years. The only problem? We've forgotten how to don formalwear for the summer, particularly so during a summer fraught with heatwaves, record-breaking temperatures, and more dress-coded events than in the last three years combined. This, dear reader, is where we come in.
Summer suits, in contrast to their cold weather-friendly compatriots, should be by their very nature lighter, cut from more porous fabrics, such as linen, silk, or fine merino wool, and styled in pale, sun-reflecting shades. What’s more, loose, more billowing suits work particularly well in summer.
Whichever way you plan on going, the GQ summer suiting guide has all bases covered. From Percival to Drake's, here are the best summer suits you can buy.
What are GQ's best summer suits for men?
You'll find all the summer suits worth your consideration in the gallery below, but first, here's what our editors are wearing this wedding season:
- Best overall summer suit: Reiss, reiss.com
- Best affordable summer suit: Arket, arket.com
- Best designer summer suit: A Kind of Guise, mrporter.com
- Best linen summer suit: Percival, percivalclo.com
How do we select our favourite summer suits?
So, how exactly do we choose what constitutes the best summer shirts for men in 2024? Simple. We know our stuff, we do our research, and we get out there to experience as much product as possible.
Our section head of menswear for GQ Recommends, Heidi Quill, is obsessed with clothes. Joining British GQ in 2021, Heidi might primarily look after clothing content, but she spends a healthy amount of time up to her neck in samples, checking product for the very best quality, price and design, all before recommending it to you. That includes knowing everything there is to know about a good summer suit.
There's more to a summer suit than just keeping you cool, of course. Whilst fabrication is important, that shouldn't come at the sacrifice of aesthetics. Tying together every ounce of tailoring-based knowledge they have, our team of contributing writers and freelancers (including Harvey James) has handled the scrolling and investigating for you. Scroll on for their findings…
And for more tailoring inspiration shop our edits of double-breasted, linen, tweed, wedding, wool and tuxedo-style suits.