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Are these classically 2 or 3 eyelets?

What say yea, chukkas with business wear for added pizzazz?

I think chukka should be 2 eyelets. 3 eyelets are known as desert boots.

I love Chukkas. I am kind of indifferent as to whether they should have 2 or 3 eylelets. I think Chukkas are a little too casual for worsted City suits, especially those in a lighter weight. You can get away with them with heavier woolen flannels, but maybe not in very conservative environments like London's financial district.

Yes, the thought is to wear them with textured cloth- flannels , tweed, linen and such.

The Corthay pictures illustrate some very elegant chukkas, more so than the English versions.

The Corthays are perhaps the more suitable for suits as the English seem very country by comparison.

If your business wear can include tweed, then they are definitely acceptable.

With the typical city suit or City suit, they are not.

Agreed.

Perhaps I should use a different terminology to refer to a suit, worn with tie, but which is not City, nor typical, worsted business suit.

What would that be called? Could we call it a casual city suit?; i.e., referring to a suit and tie, to be worn in the city but made of say, a flannel.

I am thinking of a suit where one is the client of a City firm and not an employee of a City firm.

So one needn't adhere to the dress codes of the firm but rather to one's own dress codes.

Call it a casual city suit , perhaps?

Then go for it!