On the subject of the horrific fashion faux pas of wearing both suspenders and a belt with a suit, a tailor once told me: “Never trust a man who doesn’t trust his own belt.”
For some reason, I think about that moment quite frequently. It makes me smile.
It’s a decent lesson, though – while “better safe than sorry” is common wisdom, the truth is that doubling up on solutions is usually wasteful. An ounce of prevention might be worth a pound of cure, but a pound of prevention is definitely overkill.
The Opportunity Machine 