At Ease.

[uppercase]

Should you unbutton your coat when sitting?

And if you keep your coat buttoned, what should it look like?

This looks pretty good to me; it's hard to beat the Neapolitans for stylish ease:

[Bishop of Briggs]

One of the reasons that I like one button SB coats is that they look good buttoned when sitting. Your taste is similar to mine so I would recommend that you button your coats too.

[Costi]

When I feel at ease, I always unbutton my coats when I sit (SB ones). When I feel uncomfortable in a place, for one reason or another, I tend to keep (or rather forget) the coat buttoned even when I sit. That's not really something I do consciously - it is more of a "post factum" observation. The buttoned coat wen sitting, to me, is like a materialization of a psychological barrier.

[uppercase]

Ambrosi senior looks so comfortable, a good example of the man wearing the clothes.

I like all of the excess cloth that he has in the waist. He can sit without pulling at the waist. I like this alot.

I wonder if Solito makes for him?

I don't think that I can button most of my jackets at this point, at least sitting. I guess that if one wears DBs alot, the need to keep them buttoned when sitting would suggest tailoring in excess cloth in the waist....?

Costi, your buttoning gestures may be too transparent to your opponents. What to do?

[Costi]

Costi, your buttoning gestures may be too transparent to your opponents. What to do?

Live in a world of friends, rather than opponents

Here are two examples of breaking the "rules" (or inverting them) - whom else did you expect ?!

[Bishop of Briggs]

Live in a world of friends, rather than opponents

Good advice but it is difficult to follow in business and politics, especially the latter!

[Costi]

Live in a world of friends, rather than opponents

Good advice but it is difficult to follow in business and politics, especially the latter!

Of course! So your observation contains the answers, too...

[marcelo]

Is that a cigar or his walking stick in the Duke’s hand?