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This one goes out to the iGents:
Looks nice. What is it? It looks a little fragile, but pictures lie.
Lots of blue/white shirts in various shades and stripes, but I also have brown bengal stripe and pink bengal stripe shirts. Lots of different shades of gray, and blue pants, but i also have brown and black pants. I don't wear cotton pants much because they wrinkle big-time. I saw a really nice sportcoat today, kind of a greyish-brown herringbone with a tan overcheck. I think it might make a nice 2 season jacket, but I'm wondering if I have enough stuff to go with it.
Something like a camel/dark brown houndstooth is versatile in theory but more of a risk for someone who wants to be very prudent while building on a blazer look that already works for him. My suggestion is not to go for broke trying a whole new kind of sportcoats, but to expand what's working by looking for something that's closer to the blazer you love.
That was I believe a lambswool made up specially by Mimmo Spano a couple of seasons ago. Harrisons offers a very similar fabric in their Moonbeam book which is lambswool and angora.
Frankly, I don't think one should be concerned about "versatility" in a sport coat. Even in as mild a climate as where I live, no sport coat is going to be very good for year-round wear. Better to concentrate on a well-chosen wardrobe of jackets in varying fabric weights and appropriate seasonal styles.
There's a Moonbeam in that? Hmmmm...good tip. I was fixated on windowpanes when I looked at that book last, and I don't recall seeing this. - B
My Dear Vox,
Frankly, I don't think one should be concerned about "versatility" in a sport coat. Even in as mild a climate as where I live, no sport coat is going to be very good for year-round wear. Better to concentrate on a well-chosen wardrobe of jackets in varying fabric weights and appropriate seasonal styles.
Herringbone tweed. Brown looks good on me, but other colors will suffice. This may not be the most versatile as it is really two season, but it should be a wardrobe staple.