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What Happened to the Classic Navy Blue Blazer with Gold Buttons ?

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I am in the process of having one made with brass buttons - for Fridays at the office (which is still fairly formal).
 

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Not quite gold buttons, but the Brooks Brothers 200th anniversary blazer has somewhat subdued brass(?) buttons with black enamel. Looks-wise, sort of a middle ground between gold buttons and horn buttons.

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Appears to still be available:
 

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Not quite gold buttons, but the Brooks Brothers 200th anniversary blazer has somewhat subdued brass(?) buttons with black enamel. Looks-wise, sort of a middle ground between gold buttons and horn buttons.

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Brooks basically has three category of builds for it's blazers and suits:
Regent : Slim cut with padded shoulders
Fiztgerald: A hybrid cut between the Regent and Madison, less slim with less shoulder padding than Regent cut
Madison: The traditional natural shoulder drape with a more relax cut that is synonymous with Brooks Brothers
 

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Brooks basically has three category of builds for it's blazers and suits:
Regent : Slim cut with padded shoulders
Fiztgerald: A hybrid cut between the Regent and Madison, less slim with less shoulder padding than Regent cut
Madison: The traditional natural shoulder drape with a more relax cut that is synonymous with Brooks Brothers

I think they retired the Fitzgerald cut a few years ago.

From their website:

Milano: Slim and tailored through the chest, body and sleeves.

Regent: Fitted through the chest, body and sleeves.

Madison: Relaxed through the chest, body and sleeves.
 

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Anglo-Italian recently added gold buttons to their website and the guys wear wearing navy jackets with gold buttons at Pitti.
 

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I think they retired the Fitzgerald cut a few years ago.

From their website:

Milano: Slim and tailored through the chest, body and sleeves.

Regent: Fitted through the chest, body and sleeves.

Madison: Relaxed through the chest, body and sleeves.

They actually retired these models a few years ago too. From their current website:

Mafioso: Slim and tailored through the chest, body and sleeves.

Union Leader: Fitted through the chest, body and sleeves.

Preppy/ Clean cut: Relaxed through the chest, body and sleeves.
 

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What is happening in this thread? Are there stipulations going on that double vent is old fashioned and/or of all things mafia related?

Is this a defense of the sacque suit? Confused.
 

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I think they retired the Fitzgerald cut a few years ago.

From their website:

Milano: Slim and tailored through the chest, body and sleeves.

Regent: Fitted through the chest, body and sleeves.

Madison: Relaxed through the chest, body and sleeves.

From their website they still have the Fitzgerald cut.

From what I previously understand is that their Golden Fleece (@$1700 range) is the their high end series,1818 (@$1000 range) mid-level series and BrookEase (@$500 range) was their bottom level series with all three series offering different cuts such as Madison, Regent, Fitzgerald and Milano cuts. The 346 series was made for their outlet stores. What is missing now is their BrookEase maybe the BrooksGate, Red Fleece and BrooksCool are the new fill ins for their entry level series ? :puzzled:
 
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I love mine.

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Sharp! A lot of "they" do say lately that the g-b blazer is "out of date" but when I see that, my reaction is, "No, way!". I think especially because it's form-fitting tailoring is so current. Nicely done.
 
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Not quite gold buttons, but the Brooks Brothers 200th anniversary blazer has somewhat subdued brass(?) buttons with black enamel. Looks-wise, sort of a middle ground between gold buttons and horn buttons.

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Nothing to do with the buttons or blazer which are both lovely but that collar and skinny knot just aren't right, imho.
 
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From their website they still have the Fitzgerald cut.

From what I previously understand is that their Golden Fleece (@$1700 range) is the their high end series,1818 (@$1000 range) mid-level series and BrookEase (@$500 range) was their bottom level series with all three series offering different cuts such as Madison, Regent, Fitzgerald and Milano cuts. The 346 series was made for their outlet stores. What is missing now is their BrookEase maybe the BrooksGate, Red Fleece and BrooksCool are the new fill ins for their entry level series ? :puzzled:
BrooksCool, as it implies, is made for warm weather wear. BrooksGate is sold as separates and does in total come in at a price point below 1818, so is the current equivalent to BrooksEase. And Red Fleece targets a younger (and slimmer) audience with current takes on "preppy" fashion. Some stores now are only Red Fleece. Though I did purchase a regular fit fleece pullover and my first pair of chinos in Clark fit at one of those stores. About the only two things there I could actually fit into! lol.
 
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Gold buttons are kind of tacky IMO. Not something I would judge someone for but definitely not something I would go out of my way for.
 

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Gold buttons are kind of tacky IMO. Not something I would judge someone for but definitely not something I would go out of my way for.

Metal buttons is the DNA of a blazer or else it just an orphaned suit jacket, sure fashion fads will deny gold buttons over a short period, but it will come full circle again as classics is not mere fashion, but timeless styling. Known my share of people buying vent less suits and jackets based on fads only to be kicking themselves now on the money wasted and donations to their local thrift store ...LoL
 
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Sharp! A lot of "they" do say lately that the g-b blazer is "out of date" but when I see that, my reaction is, "No, way!". I think especially because it's form-fitting tailoring is so current. Nicely done.

I'm going to harvest the buttons off this one and then source a purple label navy sportcoat to attach them too. That line fits me better than Polo does.
 

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