--- title: Uncle Wears Suit to Meet Baby Cause First Impressions Matter description: That's one lucky niece. canonical: https://time.com/4621910/viral-uncle-suit/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-04T17:05:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:53.984Z og:title: Uncle Wears Suit to Meet Baby Because First Impressions Matter og:description: That's one lucky niece og:url: https://time.com/4621910/viral-uncle-suit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Uncle Wears Suit to Meet Baby Because First Impressions Matter twitter:description: That's one lucky niece twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Man Wears a Suit to Meet New Baby Because 'First Impressions Matter' by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 4, 2017 5:05 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 4, 2017 5:05 PM UTC They say that you never get a second chance to to make a first impression and a new uncle seems to have taken that to heart. He wore a suit to meet his [newborn](http://time.com/4216289/nurseries-babies-moms/?iid=sr-link1) niece. On Tuesday, a woman snapped a photo of her brother at the hospital, decked out in his finest business attire (including a pocket square!), and sent it out on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Iris%5FElisabeth%5F/status/816278466677145600?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc) saying: “My sister is about to have a [baby](http://time.com/4460720/virginia-apgar/?iid=sr-link5) and my brother showed up to the hospital in a suit because ‘first impressions matter’” The suit must have worked, because the baby seems quite smitten with dear old uncle. > [](https://twitter.com/Iris%5FElisabeth%5F/status/816278466677145600) > [](https://twitter.com/Iris%5FElisabeth%5F/status/816439997427499008) Now that [this uncle](http://time.com/4538874/starbucks-uncle-memes/?iid=sr-link2) has set such a high standard, he will have to live up to it, ideally with a steady stream of birthday, holiday, and Valentine’s Day presents for his little niece. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4621910/viral-uncle-suit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4621910/viral-uncle-suit/"},"headline":"Man Wears a Suit to Meet New Baby Because 'First Impressions Matter'","datePublished":"2017-01-04T17:05:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:53.984Z","description":"That's one lucky niece","url":"https://time.com/4621910/viral-uncle-suit/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Parenting","Babies","Parents","Children and Families"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4621910/viral-uncle-suit/","name":"Man Wears a Suit to Meet New Baby Because 'First Impressions Matter'"}}]}] ```