Working buttonholes alterations nightmare

[double00]

pointless single vent back ?

 

[Mirage-]

pointless single vent back ?

To me single vent simply implies brands cutting up on cost. People don't ride horses in tailoring nowadays, they sit in their office all day long, an activity which is much more suited to double vents.

 

[Phileas Fogg]

I thought the double vent was the more equestrian tradition.

 

[breakaway01]

To me single vent simply implies brands cutting up on cost. People don't ride horses in tailoring nowadays, they sit in their office all day long, an activity which is much more suited to double vents.

It’s more than that. The single vent goes with certain styles. An Ivy style sack jacket with double vents would look off.

 

[Mirage-]

It’s more than that. The single vent goes with certain styles. An Ivy style sack jacket with double vents would look off.

Well, the jackets I'm speaking of are certainly not ivy style. They are fairly cheap Italian stuff. That being said I wouldn't wear an ivy jacket anyway - but let's not open another topic that has little relevance here.

I thought the double vent was the more equestrian tradition.

I've always heard the opposite. But even disregarding what we have heard, what would be the point of a single vent if not letting the jacket spread over the sides of something, like a horse? A single vent doesn't help much when you are seated in an office chair I would think. Maybe if you ride bicycles to the office it might prove useful?

 

[HPT704]

I'm resurrecting an old thread here, but I recently had this problem with two jackets I had made for me where the tailor made the working buttonholes for the second fitting, without having measured properly from my thumb to wrist bone. I thought it was good enough at first and foolishly didn't speak up.

Long story short, I had the sleeves shortened directly from the cuff, after three different tailors told me that shortening from the sleeves would be too difficult. One sleeve has around a half inch from the last button to the bottom of the sleeve, the other has about an inch.

It's not a perfect solution, but it's FAR better than having sleeves that are too long. I don't like wearing jackets unless the sleeves go to my wrist bone and show ~1/2" or so of cuff, so this is the lesser of two evils. I never notice/think about the fact that there's a gap between the two sleeves. And frankly, I can't remember the last time I actually noticed the distance between the last button and the sleeve on anyone else's jacket. A costly learning experience but one I can live with.

From now on, I'm simply not getting working buttonholes until I have time to wear around the jacket for a bit with a few different shirts.

Where is this Navy jacket from? It looks exactly like mine (from Oliver Wicks) with the same problem.

 

[d00d]

Where is this Navy jacket from? It looks exactly like mine (from Oliver Wicks) with the same problem.

I got the suit made from scratch by a tailor in Dubai. It uses Zegna fabric however, which I'm sure is readily available.