Double-Breasted, 2x1

[alexdunhill]

Hey, pretty new here & I know someone's probably gonna have a go at me to use the search function but honestly lol, I've tried.

Anyhow, I've been thinking of getting a double-breasted suit (actually, probably just a sports-jacket) made in a Prince of Wales check and was gonna go with a 4x2 arrangement (I've often thought the top row in a 6x2 looks like nipples).

However, recently I saw someone wearing a jacket with the odd "2x1" button arrangement - it kinda looks like a 6x2 with the top and bottom row of buttons missing. For some reason, I really dig this look and reckon the informal- and unconventional-ity of a 2x1 might really suit an odd jacket but want to ask what everyones' opinions of this is. Spent a while trawling google to find a pic kind of like what I have in mind and I reckon this is pretty close to it:

So what do you think?

 

[alexdunhill]

Anyone?

 

[GoldenTribe]

This does not represent a popular opinion (so consider yourself warned) but I hate DB. I agree with you that 6x2 looks stupid because wtf are those buttons doing there if you never button the lapels closed across the chest (and I don't think they ever have two functional buttonholes so it's not even up to the wearer in any case) and personally I don't like the look of 4x2 either.

2x1 is the only sort of DB jacket I would wear. I've mentioned them before on SF but the suggestion tends to get short shrift or go ignored.

If you like it, go for it. (The one you posted looks a TINY bit long to me for this style.)

 

[hannly]

As long as you like, you choose it.

 

[Matt S]

Roger Moore wore such a suit in the 6th series of The Saint. His was dark grey with a narrow spaced pinstripe. It had one-button gauntlet cuffs and side vents. The button stance has to be perfectly balanced for it to look right. It's hard to pull off on a suit but it is perfect for a dinner jacket.

 

[chobochobo]

I have a couple of 2x1's. My grey flannel Kilgour 2x1 is one of my favourite suits, the other is a Valentino Tailoring - the point being that the cut/ buttoning pattern tends to be a bit more fashion forward. Thus, it is more suited for non-work suits.

I like DBs, and have several 6x2's. I'm not sure what the complaint about buttons being there that don't 'do' anything is about, after all most jackets have many 'nonfunctional' buttons.

 

[alexdunhill]

Originally Posted by chobochobo

I have a couple of 2x1's. My grey flannel Kilgour 2x1 is one of my favourite suits, the other is a Valentino Tailoring

Sounds nice, don't suppose you have any pics lying round?

Originally Posted by chobochobo

...tends to be a bit more fashion forward. Thus, it is more suited for non-work suits.

+1 I don't need to wear "work suits" anytime really (the sad state of dress standards in New Zaland means wearing anything beyond a t-shirt and sweatpants and one qualifies as "dressed up" - sad, but true), I only wear suits or sports jackets because I feel like it.

Originally Posted by chobochobo

I like DBs, and have several 6x2's. I'm not sure what the complaint about buttons being there that don't 'do' anything is about, after all most jackets have many 'nonfunctional' buttons.

For me it isn't the "non-functionality" of the buttons I don't like but the fact that I often find they look like nipples. This is mainly on broader-chested men, I think, when the top row of buttons land on the front of the jacket right where their nipples are; on slimmer figures they're either too close together to be nipples or, if they're spaced farther apart, the jacket is beginning to curve behind and don't look nipply either.