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Can members who own the Dunhill 3x2 DB navy blazer made in Italy with the enamlled buttons please tell me whether the blazer is actually a pure 3x2 or whether it is a 3roll1.5x2?Originally Posted by merkur
Confused. D/B blazers have buttons in pairs. So you can have a 2/1, a 4/1 or 4/2, a 6/1...etc. Not sure either what you have or what you are asking. A "3roll1.5x2"? Does your blazer exist in more than three dimensions?
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Sorry I think I meant to ask whether it is a 6 roll 1.5, 6x2 or 6x1.Originally Posted by merkur
OK.
Look for the inner button, the one that buttons inside the coat.
That tells you the button level -- whether it is a 6/1 or a 6/2.
Occasionally there is a button at each level, but rarely.
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Hmm. Thanks for the info. I did not know this little secret. I just checked and the inner button is at the level of the 2nd button. The reason I am confused is that the roll of the lapel is such that the 2nd external buttonhole is only half isible due to the other half going with the roll of the lapel (if that makes any sense); if it was a 6 roll 1.5 then that would mean that I would have to do up the bottom button which is supposedly a sartorial no-no although apparently Prince Charles does up the bottom button of DB blazers and the Prince of Wales is supposed to, by tradition, never be able to make a sartorial mistake).Originally Posted by merkur
I think the guideline re the no-no's is no bottom button buttoned on SB coats, unless it is very cold or windy, but with DB coats you have the option esp when the coat is cut for it. A 4/1 extends the lapel line on a shorter dude, like this old English guy:
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