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Year after year, a debate rages among the staff at A.K. Rikk’s, a boutique in Grand Rapids, Mich.: Is the double-breasted suit cool? Opposed are those employees who feel it has a cheesily aggressive swagger right out of “Miami Vice.” More supportive are staffers who say the suit packs the panache of a Milanese industrialist. “It’s a constant back and forth,” said A.K. Rikk’s president Jim Murray, who admits he currently sides with the panache contingent: “A solid wool flannel double-breasted suit can be an amazing thing to…