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Does a SB blazer have to be a 3B?

Windsurf

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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?
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Master Shake

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

Windsurf

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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?
 

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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.
 

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

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

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

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