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Originally Posted by boarhill 
Beg pardon is this called "Style Forum" or "Dress Like Everyone Else Forum"?
The style of jacket you depict is quite righty referred to as a cricket jacket in informed circles.
Orginally this type of jacket was worn by cricket players as they traveled to and from matches, and the style was soon adpoted by all manner of sporting gentlemen (including tennis players).
Just as you no longer have to be in the Royal Navy to wear a blazer in public, you are quite right that you may wear a cricket jacket as you please in the approporaite circumstances.
In England and in many civilized countries cricket jackets and their close cousins the university blazer and prep school blazer are worn to school or sporting evenets with dress pants but have also become quite popular in retro wear circles and are often paired with a clean pair of jeans, and and open neck oxford shirt of knit polo shirt
Ignore the advice (or rather the lack thereof) given to you and by all means sally forth in your spiffing cricket jacket.
The style of jacket you depict is quite righty referred to as a cricket jacket in informed circles.
Orginally this type of jacket was worn by cricket players as they traveled to and from matches, and the style was soon adpoted by all manner of sporting gentlemen (including tennis players).
Just as you no longer have to be in the Royal Navy to wear a blazer in public, you are quite right that you may wear a cricket jacket as you please in the approporaite circumstances.
In England and in many civilized countries cricket jackets and their close cousins the university blazer and prep school blazer are worn to school or sporting evenets with dress pants but have also become quite popular in retro wear circles and are often paired with a clean pair of jeans, and and open neck oxford shirt of knit polo shirt
Ignore the advice (or rather the lack thereof) given to you and by all means sally forth in your spiffing cricket jacket.
This actually doesn't sound too bad. I think it really depends on how and where you wear it. Also, if you're very small you'll run the risk of looking like a school boy...
