She's not just an old suit to be given away because it doesn't fit or the style has changed.
"We are beginning to spin along with that old suit at last, I promise you."
These were old, battered suits, which was why we had been able to afford them.
"I want to make sure she hasn't had any problems breathing with that old suit on."
There he went to the closet where his old suit of many pockets hung.
He wore a shiny old blue suit that looked at least two sizes too large.
She decided on an old black suit and a shawl which had belonged to her mother.
But you're still wearing that terrible old suit, so the woman is gone.
This helps account for why your old suits look so terrible compared with new ones.
So I went in and got the old suit, and it fit him.