Does a SB blazer have to be a 3B?

[Windsurf]

I own a nice DB 4x2 Navy blazer, but would like to add a SB to my wardrobe. I prefer 2B suits and so would normally get a 2B blazer. But it seems like most blazers are 3B. Does a blazer have to have 3B to be considered a blazer?

Could I use the work blazer any more times? Could I sound any more like Chandler on Friends?)

 

[Master Shake]

There is no such requirement. Keep looking, you should definitely be able to find a two-button blazer.

 

[DocHolliday]

Manton would tell you that a true blazer should be double-breasted, but in my mind's eye, a blazer is a 2 button. The 3-button version strikes me as too buttoned up, and at odds with the nature of the jacket.

 

[Windsurf]

I forgot to include in my original post that to me a blazer must to have gold metal buttons. A jacket without these buttons is just a sports coat.

 

[Vintage Gent]

I would agree that it does not. My Chan blazer was made with 2B:

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=21805

 

[Manton]

For SB blazers (a garment I have come to mildly disdain), I prefer 3 buttons. 2 button coats just look too much like a suit coat to me. If I were dying for another blazer, I would go for a 3 roll 2.5 for a nice casually elegant look.

 

[Vintage Gent]

Originally Posted by Manton

For SB blazers (a garment I have come to mildly disdain), I prefer 3 buttons. 2 button coats just look too much like a suit coat to me. If I were dying for another blazer, I would go for a 3 roll 2.5 for a nice casually elegant look.

Why disdain? Too ubiquitous? Too plebian?

 

[Manton]

A combination of ubiquity and heresy. It is everywhere, and has been for eons. Yet it's not really a "classic" in the sense that I appreciate the classics. It sort of became a classic by virtue of its ubiquity.

I have two, by the way. Yet recently I acquired a simple blue coat (made from light overcoating twill) with blue horn buttons. If I need an odd jacket for a night out in cool weather, I always reach for that. For daywear, I always reach for a brown or green or gray or blue-gray tweed in fall/winter, and a linen or a certain checked worsted in summer. The blazers have gone unworn for a long time.

 

[FLMountainMan]

I have three blazers, all are 2 button. I like the look, more traditional

 

[Jovan]

Huh. Most blazers I see are two button...

 

[Rolo]

3-Button blazers or a conspiracy headed up by FB and the Trilateral Commission to unload odd suit jackets? You decide.