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I am attracted to this suit



Shoud I ask for a 6x2, 6x3 or 6x2 and a half?

I think your first option does not relate to the referenced suit. As for your third option, I am not sure if that is really practicable. One can button either the top two buttons or the bottom two buttons as shown, but I think rolling to 2.5 has some structural difficulties, as I'm sure you know from your blazer.

Image from Sir Hardy?

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I would call it a 6x3. Personally, I find it too "affected", shouting "look at me", - more for a spiv than a gentleman (ducks for cover).

Bishop of Briggs wrote:I would call it a 6x3. Personally, I find it too "affected", shouting "look at me", - more for a spiv than a gentleman (ducks for cover).

Ah, you entered the den of spivs that this thread is and seek cover? Lest you accuse culverwood or me of having misled anyone in the past, I should say that I do not recall culverwood or I ever saying anything about being a gentleman -- hopefully, that does not disqualify either of us from being a spiv. BTW, I don't think culverwood was asking about what it might be called...

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The more traditional look is the 8x3 DB blazer as worn here - http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/foru ... stcount=56. A right mix of aristos and spivs!

culverwood wrote:I am attracted to this suit



Shoud I ask for a 6x2, 6x3 or 6x2 and a half?

it's a 6x3 with an oddly high buttoning point. On mine I "do" the top two and leave the lowest undone (usually)

The lapels are so small...not fitting of a man of Yachtie's tastes

The 8x3 linked pictures look horrible, especially with the gold buttons on the Navy Blazer.

Reminds me of the recent DB vest disasters I posted. Just way too many buttons

Don't do it Yachtie

Here is an older thread about this: http://www.thelondonlounge.net/forum/vi ... zer#p11441

Ay, this would be a 6x3 DB, but I don't think it's YOUR best option - you would be best with a SB coat and, if you do opt for a DB, it shouldn't button so high up, you need to show a little more shirt & tie. This cut "covers" you too much.

I think shredder and I must be children of the 60's who have never been able to throw off our Mod roots. I have many 6x2 and SB suits and jackets and am well aware that a suit like this is not to everyone's taste but it scratches an itch which ahas been there for a long time. As time goes by the buttoning point on my coats seems to have moved down and up from 3 button in the 70's, low 2 button SB in the 80's, Conduit cut 2 button in the 90's to my current craving for 6x3 perhaps it is just fashion or maybe middle/old age.

If you can have non functioning buttonholes in SB why not in DB and my existing 6x3s all had a much more heavily pressed lapel rather than the roll that the one shown has and never look quite right with the top button undone.

Oh, I know, mid-life crisis and all that!

I also have not entirely warmed up to leaving the top button unfastened for the same reason although I at times find myself in a certain mood that calls for the fastening configuration. However, I usually prefer to fasten the top two.

A little less "60's". Going forward I place the button stance wider and a little lower.

Yachtie - That is not what I'm after and the sharpness of the lapel crease is as my other 6x3s. I am looking for a higher button position and a rolled lapel to be worn with the bottom two buttons used most of the time but the top one still usable if I need to. I think it must be a Mod thing.

I like your suit too, it's just not what I'm after

culverwood wrote:Yachtie - That is not what I'm after and the sharpness of the lapel crease is as my other 6x3s. I am looking for a higher button position and a rolled lapel to be worn with the bottom two buttons used most of the time but the top one still usable if I need to. I think it must be a Mod thing.

I like your suit too, it's just not what I'm after

Nothing wrong with the suit you pictured, it is stylistically Mod though as you say, there are some pics of SC done like you say. (looks better on the thin IMO).