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Need a onesie for work? Meet the office-appropriate ‘Suitsy’

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Is the office environment ready for an adult version of the infant’s onesie?

If the “Suitsy” gets enough votes to get crowdfunded we’ll probably get the chance to find out.

Betabrand, the San Francisco-based online clothier that has launched a thousand guffaws by serving up such offbeat garments as the “caperon” (a combination superhero cape and barbecue apron) and a series of trousers inspired by the seven deadly sins) posted images and a description of the business suit/onesie mashup to its website on Sept. 18 as part of its Think Tank program for design ideas.

If the Suitsy gets enough votes by Oct. 16 it will move from idea to prototype and crowdfunding stage. According to Betabrand’s founder Chris Lindland, the make-or-break number of votes is usually around 300. As of this writing, it has 879 votes of confidence. (“The Suitsy has well surpassed that number,” says Lindland.)

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If the crowdfundiong stage meets production minimums (which can range from 15 to 150 units), it will actually become a reality for at least the lucky customers who doubled-down on the office-appropriate onesie.

While adult-sized, one-piece garments are certainly nothing new -- women have been free to wear the jumpsuit for decades now (we swear we even saw a few versions for the fellows on the New York Fashion Week runways earlier this month) -- what makes this a potential standout is how it totally blends in.

Invented by real estate developer Jesse Herzog (that’s him in the above photo, apparently), the one-piece jumpsuit is designed to resemble a three-piece ensemble -- a white dress shirt, a navy blue jacket and a matching pair of navy blue trousers. But it’s all smoke and mirrors -- and a whole lot of trompe l’oeil details. The pants are attached to the jacket and shirt at the waist, the button placket (complete with false buttons) disguises the jumpsuit’s front zipper and there isn’t really a separate shirt at all, just a faux shirt front and white shirt cuffs sewn just inside the jacket cuffs.

Sure it sounds silly but I’ll have to admit it sounded a whole lot sillier before I’d seen what it actually looked like. We’ll be interested to see if Herzog’s idea has legs. In the meantime, let us know your thoughts. Would you -- or any guy you know -- zip into the Suitsy?

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