The Odd Jacket

[Costi]

Thank you Rodes for your frank answer.
I guess that the most important factors in making a certain odd jacket multi-purpose are our affection for the garment in question and our attitude while wearing it.

Whoa!... Of course! Excellent, hectorm! I feel that this is the answer. Not what cloth, what cut or what buttons, but how we feel about it, OUR relation to it. WE make a certain jacket multi-purpose (and we make it truly work multi-purposely, as affection generates attitude), while there is no such thing as a multi-purpose jacket in itself. I had not responded so far because I did not know what, and this annoyed me. That is a lesson not just in dress, but in Style.

[Slewfoot]

I agree with what's been posted recently. You never really know what your favorite odd jackets will be until at least 6 months after wearing them and they've started to break in. Suddenly you just find yourself constantly reaching for those over others. It sneaks up on you somewhat subconsciously at first. Sometimes we commission garments where we are convinced they will work better than most anything yet, but somehow they don't see as much wear.

[Costi]

That is why concepts such as "rotation" are completely alien to me. It is about a relation, a rapport between myself and my garments or other things I use. Not everything we commission turns out to be a success. Technically a suit may be well made, but it makes me feel like an oak with palm leaves. This may change later on. But in the meantime, why punish myself and wear it for rotation's sake?
Or I may fall in love with a coat and overwear it - nothing wrong with that, the patina it acquires shall be the mark of my love for it. How can I feel comfortable - emotionally, psychologically - when I think "if it's Tuesday, it's the brown coat"? The variety in our wardrobes can become an impediment to style if we proceed this way, conforming ourselves to constrictions that are alien to our spontaneous impulses.