When you are on stage, your performance is a combination of sound and sight. When you look your best, you feel your best and the audience perceives the subtle difference between a performer who is at ease and one who is not, therefore experiencing the entire performance differently.

For fast, reliable, extremely affordable custom-made performance formal wear and service relating to it -- for both men and women -- Simco, one of America’s oldest, most-trusted names in formalwear is the resource. Based in the Chicago area, Simco was founded with the intention of restoring the lost art of making fine performance apparel. Simco’s designers follow the concept of simplicity and elegance and their designs are both modern and timeless, giving testimony that design is concealed in apparel simplicity. If they have teachers, they are the fine designers and craftsman of the past century. Simco uses only the highest-quality raw materials and their attention to detail and dedication to simple lines allows the performer an understated, quiet look, causing the audience to be aware of the performer’s voice – not her dress. Simco offers free 30-day fabric swatch samples to ensure that your dress is made from the fabric you desire and they even offer custom alterations and changes on a per-order basis! Just contact them with your wishes and they will do their best to accommodate them!

Despite its dedication to the design and quality of the past, Simco uses the modern convenience of the Internet, providing fast online solutions to anywhere in the country via the Web and expedited shipping. At their website, you can conveniently view their complete 84-page catalog, or request to have a copy sent to you. The Simco catalog is packed with every type of formal or serious performance clothing you could ever need!
Many styles of tuxedoes, cummerbunds, ties, vests – all men’s accessories, including button covers, a variety of styles of neckties, bow-ties, long neck ties, a number of styles of patent-leather shoes and cufflinks, shirt studs; a huge variety of Simco-made short formal dresses, long formal dresses, casual separates for men and women, choir robes, formal pants sets, casual but classy sleeveless tops, and all ladies’ accessories, including gloves, shoes and stylish strings of Mallorca pearls!

All prices shown in Simco’s catalog are the everyday retail purchase prices – not sale or rental prices! Simco offers unbelievably low prices for such high-quality formalwear. For instance, a 5-piece tails set – jacket with tails, pleated tux trousers, pleated-front formal shirt, bow tie and cummerbund -- is only $137.50 not including S&H. For a 5-piece regular tux set, with the same pieces as already mentioned, but with a non-tails coat, the price is only $87.50 not including S&H! Simco offers its elegant formal dresses ranging in price from $22 to 89! If the student performer has to purchase his/her own performance clothing, Simco makes it 100% affordable to look great!

Simco also offers a leasing plan for slightly-used items that are still in excellent condition and there are always close-outs and special discounts on top of the already-low prices Simco offers!

Simco considers choral and instrumental performers to be among its favorite customers and they take great pride in bringing their top-drawer services to this realm. The well-dressed performer can be at ease on stage because s/he knows that the sight aspect is taken care of. When you entrust your on-stage look to Simco, you know that you will shine and your looks will match your sound!

Please see their website at https://www.simcoformal.com/index.php for complete up-to-the-minute product and pricing information and call their customer service line for friendly, knowledgeable assistance from the name in formalwear! M.L.■