suits you sir..
Actually it doesn’t, or at least not my lifestyle or personality. My main objection isn’t the way they look, but rather the impracticality and extra effort needed.
Take today. I’m currently on a train to go and work on a clients site (a bit of CSS/ Javascript consulting). I need to be there by 9am, in a suit, preferably not creased and certainly not ripped.
Were it not for the suit this is how the last 12 hours or so might have panned out:-
Last night: normal
This morning: get up slightly earlier than usual and skate to the station. At the other end (Birmingham), skate to the clients office, probably stashing my board in a bag of some description so as not to give the wrong impression.
Because of the suit it has panned out like this:-
Last night, take nearly an hour out of my evening to find and iron a shirt and my suit trousers (I’m not very good at ironing, and I don’t see the point in it but that is a whole other rant). Find all the other associated stuff and lay out ready for swift early morning exit.
This morning get up extra early and start using that most primitive of transport - walking. This takes ages and despite allowing 50 minutes I still have to full-on march to get to the station, buy my ticket, queue for the coffee and find my train.
The alternatives would have been:
to cycle to the station, but I’m not coming back by train so would then need to retrieve my bike this evening, plus if it had been raining my suit trousers would have got muddy/soaked without decent waterproofs. Plus getting the bike through the house meant I would have had to let the cats out of the kitchen and they would demand to be fed.
To drive to the station. This is expensive - city centre parking doesn’t come cheap, and is usually full. There is an out of town station but would need to get back out there to retrieve the car in the evening.
Taxi to station. Very expensive, a complete rip off too, usually about £6 - £8 for a journey I can skate in 15 minutes.
To somehow skate to the station with suit/shirt/shoes packed in a bag. This means I would need to get changed on the train, plus stash my board, plus walk/taxi at the other end - the whole point is that I need to turn up in a suit, to create the right impression. Hmm maybe I could get changed in a bush near the office or in a phonebox superman style.
Hang on, there’s something I haven’t explained here - I could skate in the suit. In fact I considered it, because I skated the other day in my boots (Doc Marten) and it worked fine, and if it wasn’t for the slight mishap on my skate commute yesterday I may well have travelled to the station in my suit this morning, atop my wooden toy. Unfortunately the risk is too great, suits don’t come cheap and are likely to rip at the slightest brush of concrete - how stupid is that? I have to admit I actually quite like the idea of peoples reactions to seeing someone skateboarding in a suit - I like the idea of getting a bowler hat, umbrella and briefcase to complete the look though..
Ah well - I’m on the train, I haven’t got a skateboard to lug around with me and this suit is actually quite practical for my current situation - loads of pockets for receipts, tickets, phone etc. and my wife tells me I look quite good in a suit 
Hmm, this is quite a lengthy post - probably the combined result of being on a train, reading most of Charles Bukowski’s Post Office and too much coffee.