Buttoning a double breasted the other way

[Zenny]

Ever button a DB jacket the other way; dare I say, the wrong way?

I see it on the runway alot for some reason.

 

[Holdfast]

What do you mean "the wrong way"?

Mirror-imaged, like women's wear? Nope, too weird.

If you mean buttoned 4x1 instead of 4x2 - rarely. Depends on lapel roll: 4x1 tend to be designed to be buttoned as such and doing up a 4x2 as a 4x1 doesn't always work as the internal button on the other side is at the wrong height. You could have a second internal button sewn in so you could vary the buttoning configuration.

If you mean buttoning up both possible buttons on a 6x2 - well, not personally, but I can see someone doing this and looking good.

 

[JeffsWood]

Originally Posted by Holdfast

What do you mean "the wrong way"?

Mirror-imaged, like women's wear? Nope, too weird.

If you mean buttoned 4x1 instead of 4x2 - rarely. Depends on lapel roll: 4x1 tend to be designed to be buttoned as such and doing up a 4x2 as a 4x1 doesn't always work as the internal button on the other side is at the wrong height. You could have a second internal button sewn in so you could vary the buttoning configuration.

If you mean buttoning up both possible buttons on a 6x2 - well, not personally, but I can see someone doing this and looking good.

now my head hurts

 

[JibranK]

Originally Posted by Zenny

Ever button a DB jacket the other way; dare I say, the wrong way?

I see it on the runway alot for some reason.
Right over left on the runway is probably for that oh-so-popular androgyneous look.

 

[Holdfast]

Originally Posted by JeffsWood

now my head hurts

My work here is done...

 

[LeonM]

Originally Posted by Holdfast

What do you mean "the wrong way"?

Mirror-imaged, like women's wear? Nope, too weird.


Impossible, unless the pictures have been flipped vertically?

Leon

 

[Cary Grant]

Yeah. I'd think the coats woulkd half to be intentionaly designed "backwards" or feminine.

 

[eHaberdasher]

Originally Posted by LeonM

Impossible, unless the pictures have been flipped vertically?

Leon

+1 this must be the case.

 

[Zenny]

Originally Posted by LeonM

Impossible, unless the pictures have been flipped vertically?

Leon

Well it was a PRADA collection, so I guess it must be the whole androgynous thing they are pulling this year.

 

[acidboy]

^ that explains it