Navy tweed jacket: dark plastic or silver buttons?

[L. Chesterfield]

Going for youthful well-dressed geek look. Have fair skin and dark brown hair.

The original came with smoky plastic buttons; considering changing to silver.

 

[maxalex]

Hopefully those original buttons are horn and not plastic, which breaks easily. Metal buttons are more traditional in navy blazers (at least in America; not so in Europe). I would leave as is.

 

[JLibourel]

^Second the foregoing. Horn buttons are very appropriate for a tweed jacket, metal buttons are not. Some men like leather buttons with tweed, but I am not among them.

 

[Anachronist]

+1
The metal buttons give the tweed jacket a look similar to our traditional "Janker" jackets that are so fashionable in Bavaria and Austria; think lederhosen and hunting jacket ;-).

maxalex is right, metal buttons are typically worn on navy blazers with plain or only lightly structured cloth.

 

[L. Chesterfield]

Good information and insightful perspectives. Thank you guys!

 

[Chouan]

Replace with horn. Not metal. Like these https://www.myfabrics.co.uk/24-3642...MIoJTj0uGG2AIVqbvtCh2oqgm2EAQYAyABEgJf7_D_BwE