Is it possible to remove the second button on a dinner jacket?

[jwu39]

I recently saw a great looking ivory dinner jacket for sale - 50% off - and for all intents and purposes it is perfect (covered buttons, peak lapel, etc), except for one thing. It's a two button suit, which is as we know isn't really desirable in a dinner jacket. So my question is, is it possible to have a tailor remove the second buttonhole?

 

[Phileas Fogg]

I really cannot see how that could be done without any residual visual impact.
If it’s something you really need, just get it and wear it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t do it. I don’t think you’d be happy with the results.

 

[aristoi bcn]

If you do, you won't like the results.

 

[Mikey#3]

i've given this some thought, i have a jacket that may be cooler if it was 1 button. the button comes right off, so that is easy, but you're left with the button hole on the opposite side and that is the problem.

two potential solutions, 1 is to do some kind of link button closure, maybe you just have two lower button holes that become vestigial? or do away with the buttons completely?

second would be to use a smaller button on the lower, and make sure it blends with the jacket. its still two button, but it'll look like one. i have a Navy blazer with these giant round silver buttons, and it would be cooler in a 1 button, but i think a big top button and a small lower button might accomplish a 1 button look.

then again it may not, i haven't actually done anything, but i did have the ideas. and with social distancing people are further away so it matters less

 

[jwu39]

I really cannot see how that could be done without any residual visual impact.
If it’s something you really need, just get it and wear it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t do it. I don’t think you’d be happy with the results.

If you do, you won't like the results.

It's not something I particularly 'need'. However it is something that I like very much, and if it were 1 button I would be perfectly willing to pay full price to have that piece in my wardrobe. I just personally can't get past the idea of having two buttons on a dinner jacket - it just feels and to my eye looks 'wrong', too casual.

However, seeing the jacket is on sale, I feel that I would be perfectly willing to pay the price for the jacket so long as the alterations required don't 'ruin' the jacket too much. My question is, how much of an effect would a closed buttonhole have on the look of the jacket?

Ideally I would be able to see how a previously altered jacket looks with that same alteration, and make a decision based on that. If it helps, the jacket is an off-white 100% linen weave so if that has a positive or negative effect on how a removed buttonhole would look, I would like to know that too.

 

[Despos]

You want the help of a Reweaver. They would weave the cut where the buttonhole was. Expect to pay at least $200.00 and probably more.
Light colored worsted cloth will be very difficult to do. You want to find someone very talented to do it.

 

[jwu39]

You want the help of a Reweaver. They would weave the cut where the buttonhole was. Expect to pay at least $200.00 and probably more.
Light colored worsted cloth will be very difficult to do. You want to find someone very talented to do it.

That's a shame - I wouldn't even know where to find a reweaver in Australia, and if I did find one it'd probably cost me twice that over here, which ends up being almost three times the cost of the jacket itself :/

 

[FlyingHorker]

While 2 buttons is not ideal, it doesn't sound like a big issue.

How about buying it and wearing it as is?

 

[David Reeves]

A fools errand, don't bother.