Double Breasted Navy Blue Blazer: Cool or Uncool?

[miurasv]

I've just picked up 2 DB blazers with gold coloured buttons as well as one SB version and have been reading on another site about people's hostile attitudes and opinions towards the navy blue blazer. I bought them with the intention of wearing casually both for day wear and for going out in the night at the weekend. I happen to think that a well cut fitted blazer is a really smart thing to wear. What do you think?

 

[heaven7]

You are right, they are wrong.

 

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by miurasv

I happen to think that a well cut fitted blazer is a really smart thing to wear. What do you think?
I agree. I also like both db and sb blazers.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by miurasv

I've just picked up 2 DB blazers with gold coloured buttons as well as one SB version and have been reading on another site about people's hostile attitudes and opinions towards the navy blue blazer.

At which Internet site will you be wearing your blazer?

If you will be wearing it at the site that is hostile to it, you might study some mixed martial arts in case a miner from the outback shows up.


- B

 

[JLibourel]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

At which Internet site will you be wearing your blazer?

If you will be wearing it at the site that is hostile to it, you might study some mixed martial arts in case a miner from the outback shows up.


- B

Just don't get into an argument with the miner about heavy metal, and you should be fine!

 

[in fits of print]

The double-breasted blazer has a definite yacht club vibe. I've got one I'll wear to, say, cocktail parties, but not at casual out-on-the-town bars. The single-breasted is more flexible.

 

[JLibourel]

^I've attended social functions at a couple of yacht clubs. Normally, I am the only man in a blazer (even a single-breasted one). At the last such event, I received some good natured ribbing as to whether I was running for commodore because of the blazer I was wearing.

Real yachtspeople are not a very sartorially elegant lot in my experience.

 

[luciosilla]

Well, opinions, assholes, elbows, etc, but I finally jettisoned a DB navy blazer because it just seemed too ostentatious.

And yachties really are a pretty grubby lot, in general. The impression I usually take away is "skin cancer," because they tend to have leathery, sun-decimated hides.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Originally Posted by luciosilla

I finally jettisoned a DB navy blazer because it just seemed too ostentatious.

*****.

 

[luftvier]

Thumbs up.

 

[AlanC]

Originally Posted by luftvier

Thumbs up.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by JLibourel

^I've attended social functions at a couple of yacht clubs. Normally, I am the only man in a blazer (even a single-breasted one). At the last such event, I received some good natured ribbing as to whether I was running for commodore because of the blazer I was wearing.

Real yachtspeople are not a very sartorially elegant lot in my experience.

I think that I would like to be commodore of a yacht club. Something to strive for.

 

[luftvier]

Although to answer the OP's question, I think the fact that I support them makes them inherently uncool.

 

[miurasv]

Originally Posted by luftvier

Although to answer the OP's question, I think the fact that I support them makes them inherently uncool.

Nah, that you support them means they're cool.

 

[Gutman]

Yes, for day-time (2+4 brass buttons), no for night-time. Must be a good cut, two vents, not one of those old-man looking blazers from High Street with the button stance too low. Single breasted is too bowling club, you would be better off with a SB normal sports jacket.