Warm weather wedding suit

[aston]

Chapeau, Michael...

BandB.....send pics!!

[bond_and_beyond]

Thanks both. Will post some photos when the suit is ready.

As regards making the jacket casual enough to be worn on its own, would slanted jetted pockets do the trick?

BB

[alden]

As regards making the jacket casual enough to be worn on its own, would slanted jetted pockets do the trick?

If it were me, BB, I would go with straight flapped pockets on a worsted suit.

Cheers

[bond_and_beyond]

As regards making the jacket casual enough to be worn on its own, would slanted jetted pockets do the trick?

If it were me, BB, I would go with straight flapped pockets on a worsted suit.

Cheers

Thanks. But I am trying to make it casual enough to be worn as an odd jacket also. But perhaps this cloth is a bit too formal anyway for that?

Thanks,
BB

[alden]

BB

Not at all. I wear my blue suit jackets often as odd jackets. Never hesitated, never thought about it. The only think I do is use dark brown horn buttons on my coats.

Cheers

[arch]

Similar question but at the risk of hijacking the thread, same question what about flannel suit coats worn alone? Diificult?

[bond_and_beyond]

I must confess to being one of those who are very sceptical of wearing worsted suit jackets as odd jackets unless the weave / pattern etc is a bit more casual or rougher (if that makes sense).

Smooth worsted worn as an odd jacket always looks as a suit jacket being worn separately. Hopsack or indeed the Brisa and also flannel on the other hand I think works well separately.

How "smooth" is the piuama in this regard?

BB

[alden]

Arch

Same as above answer. I wear flannel suit coats as odd jackets all the time. Almost all my Fox LL Flannels were designed to be worn as suits and odd jackets. I wear them all as such. Never even posed myself the question. Some work better than others, but flannel makes a great odd coat.

[aston]

I agree that texture is relevant to how well an odd jacket looks, but for me more important is colour. Charcoal worsted is always likely to look as if it is part of a suit, but a mid blue could happily pass as an odd jacket.

[couch]

The navy Piuma is quite dark. It has a slight texture, though not nearly so much as the Brisa or Mistral. I had mine made up to use as a warm-weather SB blazer with dark natural horn buttons (so espresso brown with lighter flashes). Straight flapped pockets. As Michael suggests, it works fine as an odd jacket. If I had bought enough cloth to make trousers, this same jacket would have worked perfectly in a suit. I wouldn't worry at all.

[arch]

I suppose blazers and sports coats were originally only suit coats worn with different trousers after all.

[Concordia]

That was how you could spot the rich guys. They were the ones who could afford to have jackets made without any thought of using them in a suit.

[hectorm]

I suppose blazers and sports coats were originally only suit coats worn with different trousers after all.

Not the blazers. They have their own separate origin, different than being part of a suit. I´m not going to bore you with old tales, you can do your own research and have fun while doing it.

[arch]

Yes, I am aware of their nautical origin. I was generalising.

[bond_and_beyond]

I avoid using straight flapped pockets on my suit jackets, as the horizontal line widens my hip region. I therefore prefer slanted flapped pockets.

BB