Hacking and ticket pockets on classic suiting

[radicaldog]

Poorly executed slanted pockets on a city suit look ugly. If they're executed too well they look like one is trying too hard. They're ok on country suit, but I would only put them on an actual hacking jacket.

 

[lasbar]

We need FNB to give you one of his exquisite essay on the hacking pockets and their place in post-Victorian England...

 

[TRINI]

Hacking and ticket pockets on Savile Row (Stuart Lamprell) suit.

 

[soupcxan]

Originally Posted by radicaldog

Poorly executed slanted pockets on a city suit look ugly. If they're executed too well they look like one is trying too hard.
+1

I see slanted pockets and think "there goes another Tim Gunn wannabe."

 

[Manton]

You are all iGents and Cromwells.

 

[ManofKent]

Originally Posted by Manton

You are all iGents and Cromwells.

I'm a cavalier - they were far more flamboyant - almost to the point of excess...

 

[Dorian Gray]

I greatly enjoy ticket pockets. And will continue to get them on my suits. I enjoy the look as well as the usefulness. Have not gone for the hacking pocket route yet.

Perhaps my first foray. What is the consensus on hacking pockets (fairly slight) on a Seersucker? I'm having one made in a few weeks? Yay or nay?

 

[Manton]

I should have said Roundhead. I am an idiot.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by Dorian Gray

Perhaps my first foray. What is the consensus on hacking pockets (fairly slight) on a Seersucker? I'm having one made in a few weeks? Yay or nay?

If you are American, no.

If not, maybe.

- B

 

[DocHolliday]

Regardless, no.

 

[dopey]

My default SB cut from Dege was 2-button peak lapel with hacking pockets and a ticket pocket.

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by dopey

My default SB cut from Dege was 2-button peak lapel with hacking pockets and a ticket pocket.

Now we're talking. Not everything good has to have Vesuvial ash in it.

- B

 

[voxsartoria]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

Regardless, no.

"You disappoint me."

- B

 

[yachtie]

I use my ticket pocket to hold by building pass for work . Pretty convenient as I refuse to wear a lanyard. May try it again.

not a fran of slanted pockets except maybe on overcoats.

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by voxsartoria

"You disappoint me."

- B

Not even in The New Avengers (from which that is a picture) would Steed have worn seersucker, hacking pockets or not.