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Tampa

A suit city that pretends it isn't

Tampa dresses more formally than the rest of Florida admits. The Hillsborough County courthouse and the federal courthouse on Florida Avenue keep hundreds of trial lawyers in suits four days a week; the banks and wealth managers around Water Street and the insurance and finance floors of Westshore add hundreds more. And every one of them is fighting the same two blocks of August sidewalk between the parking garage and the lobby.

That walk is the design constraint for every suit cut here: high-twist worsteds and hopsacks around 250 grams that shrug off the humidity between the Poe garage and the courtroom, and still look pressed at a 6 p.m. closing dinner at Bern's or a client evening at the Oxford Exchange.

Weddings

Marrying in Tampa

Tampa's wedding venues photograph dark and warm — the brick and steel of Armature Works, the library shelves of the Oxford Exchange, the river light at the Tampa River Center. Cloth is chosen against the room: a mid-blue fresco holds its color under Armature Works' string lights where a dark navy goes black, and an outdoor Curtis Hixon ceremony in the warm months is linen territory. Grooms and groomsmen are measured together in one sitting, usually at someone's office or the groom's home.