3-Roll-2.5: What is the point?

[teddieriley]

Originally Posted by forex

Chan suit? Can Chan make 3 to 2.5 successfully?

I assumed so. Patrick is familiar with it, but I don't think I've seen one in the wild (or through pics).

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by forex

Chan suit? Can Chan make 3 to 2.5 successfully?

Liverano, you dork.

- B

 

[forex]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

Liverano, you dork.

- B

I know it's Liverano. I was asking Teddy who he was going to get his suit from as I don't think he's going to get it from Liverano. Assumed it would be Chan, if so, could Patrick cut a nice 3 to 2.5suit?
Are your Steeds true three button or 3 to 2.5?

 

[Wes Bourne]

Originally Posted by Parker

To me it's an issue of balance and subjective style. I used to not like the 3-roll-2.5 but have warmed to it lately. I like the symmetry of a little arc above and below the fulcrum button. Some good examples have a nice curve all the way from the lapels through the button and down into the quarters. Whereas 3-roll-2 create more of an X with straighter angles. Each has their place with me. The true 3 on the other hand...

Not the greatest examples, but what I quickly found:

Good illustration, but the 3r2.5 just looks like a reg 2 button to me, but with a nice roll vs. a 'hard' 2b that's suffered a bad pressing.

 

[NorCal_1]

Originally Posted by teddieriley

I assumed so. Patrick is familiar with it, but I don't think I've seen one in the wild (or through pics).



my WW Chan grey flannel suit is 3 roll 2.5 and has a button stance exactly like #2 in the comparison picture above

 

[M. Bardamu]

Originally Posted by dmac

The sartorial wisdom of Cruiser is unmatched.

Careful, Manton + Cruiser = potassium + water

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by forex

Are your Steeds true three button or 3 to 2.5?

The SBs are mostly 2.5, with a couple 3 and one 1.

I have the first 3 to 2 enroute, with the new (for me) but old (for A&S) patch pockets in the H&S faux tweed.

- B

 

[Wes Bourne]

So do you all pronounce it three roll two point five or three roll two and a half?

 

[vincerich]

Originally Posted by Mr. Sartorial

Frankly I think the 2.5 rollover lapel is about as stupid as the convertible cuff. There's 3-button and then there's 2-button, there's French cuff and then there's a button cuff. Get off the ***** train and pick one.


I was in the process of thinking up my response, but then I read this. No need to add anything else.

 

[forex]

Originally Posted by Wes Bourne

So do you all pronounce it three roll two point five or three roll two and a half?

More like three to two point sixty seven.

 

[Redwoood]

Originally Posted by Wes Bourne

So do you all pronounce it three roll two point five or three roll two and a half?

I suspect most people you talk to in real life wouldn't know either one. I doubt most tailors (who don't speak iGent) would know what it means. Verbosity is your friend here.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by forex

Chan suit? Can Chan make 3 to 2.5 successfully?

Yes

 

[Wes Bourne]

Originally Posted by gdl203

Yes

gdl, didn't you make a good one as well? (pics please)

 

[sho'nuff]

the reason i dont like 3 roll 2 (even with a nice roll) is that i see no point behind that. why not just get a two button then, why have the lines of a 2 button but with an extra buttonhole on the lapel. it just makes it look off.


of course i dont like 3 roll 3 or true 3.

so the only option i would go for in a 3 button is the 3 roll 2.5. it is the one that confidently captures the essence of what a 3 button suit should be all about.

the 3 roll 2 just looks like a 3 button ashamed to be a 3 button and trying to be so much like a 2 button

 

[gdl203]

a 3 roll 2 with a nice big roll is a 3 roll 2.5. There really is no difference between a 3r2 and a 3r2.5 except for the way the roll is done and pressed. All in all, this is a lot of hair splitting