Our Story

Fraternitysuits.com was founded by 2 brothers, Samuel and Jacob Strayer. Both brothers are lifelong residents of Arizona and students at Arizona State University.  Samuel recently graduated with a degree in Bio-Chemistry and Jacob is a senior in Chemical Engineering, with four years of Mandarin.

Growing up they both spent their summer breaks working in their family business, Mirabel Coatings.  Samuel worked in the lab and Jacob travelling to Asia visiting customers and suppliers for Mirabel.  On one of those summer trips, Jacob decided he was going to buy a custom made to measure bespoke suit at one of those famously inexpensive suit tailors in one of the garment districts in Asia.

Not wanting to get ripped off and pay pennies on the dollar for something cheap that he would not wear or would quickly fall apart, or not look good, Jacob decided to read up and gain some knowledge on menswear.  So, prior to one of those summer trips, Jacob visited several top of the line menswear retailers and a custom suit tailor in one of the expensive high end shopping districts that Scottsdale, Arizona is famous for.

Jacob walked in, talked with the suit salesmen and tailors and used that to educate himself on fabrics, thread counts, suit construction styles and options, and generally learn about the factors that determined whether you were purchasing a very high quality suit that would look like a million dollars, or a suit that looked like it came off a rack at a bargain discounter that sold cheap rags. 

Armed with that knowledge, off Jacob went to Asia, to take care of family business and in his spare time, determined to get a “deal” in one of those garment districts.  Jacob ended up visiting a number of different tailors and came home with several suits and a tuxedo.  The prices Jacob paid for true, custom, made to measure suits was shockingly low compared to the prices charged in the top of the line retail shops in Scottsdale and even middle of the line retailers like Men’s Warehouse.

At the same time these trips to Asia were occurring, Jacob and Samuel joined the same college fraternity at Arizona State, Acacia Fraternity.  In the course of sharing stories and showing their fraternity brothers the suits and tuxedo Jacob had purchased, and the prices he paid, Jacob and Samuel ended up learning how to measure others for suits, tuxedos, blazers, and vests and the two brothers ended up helping dozens of their fraternity brothers acquire suits direct from the manufacturers in Asia for a fraction of what it would’ve cost in the states, saving their fraternity brothers a lot of money.

Then, on a subsequent trip to Asia, Jacob discovered a garment factory that was making the very same suits that are being shipped to the United States and being displayed and sold in some of these top of the line, national retail menswear stores we all know by name and have heard of on TV, radio and the internet.  And he learned the real prices those suits cost.

That was when the brothers realized that they could offer suits, jackets, pants, blazers and tuxedos made by these very same factories, using the very same fabric, sewn by the very same people supplying these other top of the line high priced stores, and offer them at prices that were much, much lower.  Fast forward a couple of years and the two brothers have helped so many fraternity brothers acquire suits, blazers and tuxedos at such large savings, that they’ve decided to create an online business and extend these same savings for these top of the line menswear to other fraternity men across the nation.  Thus the story of how fraternitysuits.com was born.