Double-breasted waistcoat

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I was wondering what would be the correct jacket for a double-breasted shawl collar waistcoat? Should the jacket have notched or peaked lapels?

Many thanks

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anyone? Thanks.

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Are you intent upon wearing this waistcoat with an ordinary business suit? Evening dress? Odd jacket? What?

RWS

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Business suit. But I work in a company where the black pin-stripe business suit is nothing extraordinary and men do not bother wearing it.

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I kicked off a discussion about that recently in the Dressing Room.
http://thelondonlounge.net/gl/forum/vie ... php?t=7428
You should find some answers there.

Pangur

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What type of jacket lapel is this? It does not look like a simple notched lapel...

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I have suits like this and some people even expressly copied the style but the w/c was a double-breasted peak lapel which this may be rather than a shawl lapel (here it is not clear but I imagine that it is probably not shawl).

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Re the innitial question, I think a jacket worn over a DB waistcoat may be either notch or peak lapel, as long as it is single breasted. It may well be a notch lapel SB coat if part of a town suit, or a peak lapel SB stroller for instance.
The picture above is most certainly of a simple SB notch lapel coat, just with a somewhat lower notch (longer collar).

C

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I agree not a double-breasted coat. Now I think that it is usual to have a notch lapel with the SB coat.
NJS

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Re the innitial question, I think a jacket worn over a DB waistcoat may be either notch or peak lapel, as long as it is single breasted. It may well be a notch lapel SB coat if part of a town suit, or a peak lapel SB stroller for instance.
The picture above is most certainly of a simple SB notch lapel coat, just with a somewhat lower notch (longer collar).

C

I agree about suits, but I thought that double-breasted waistcoats are ok for double-breasted stroller jackets. Or does the stroller jacket follow its cousin the dinner jacket, and doesn't take waistcoats when double-breasted?

Guille

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Awkward chap that I am (!) I don't know what a stroller jacket is.

[Guest]

Guille, a DB stroller takes a SB waistcoat if anything (one may dispense with the waistcoat alltogether).

More here about strollers.

C

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Thank you.
N.

[Guest]

Guille, a DB stroller takes a SB waistcoat if anything (one may dispense with the waistcoat alltogether).

More here about strollers.

C

Thanks, I had gone through that article but never read that.

[Guest]

I was wondering what would be the correct jacket for a double-breasted shawl collar waistcoat? Should the jacket have notched or peaked lapels?

Many thanks

I've found a doubl-breasted shawl lapel waistcoat here: http://www.mens-hire.co.uk/wp-content/u ... -500px.jpg
You shouldn't give it too much attention, as it is from a rental store for formalwear. They consider it a waistcoat for morning dress. But I think that it looks odd being such a low-cut waistcoat with a morning coat, so I guess the only adequate use is with a stroller (i.e. semi-formal daywear).

Guille