'20s jacket

[Dinerman]

I just won this jacket, which according to the seller, is dated from the early '20s. If the measurements were correct, it should fit.
What exactly would you call this style?

 

[Cascadian]

I'm no expert and so should probably refrain from making suggestions, but it strikes me as very Austrian or Bavarian in style.

 

[Josephine]

I was thinking with the collar, the long sleeves, the piping-ish decoration, and the "vents" (?) at the sides, it looks Chinese. But with buttons?

 

[thunderw21]

Could be military, like a West Point-style tunic. [huh]

 

[dakotanorth]

Location of origin?

Tough call, it's definitely a hybrid, as everyone before has collectively stated.
The Mandarin-style collar says Asian. The trim does look like a traditional Bavarian jacket (sorta), but black "lustre" fabric says....?
Hopefully when you get it, it will have a tag of some sort. If not, checking the stitching and other construction details will tell you a lot.
It is kinda cool though, a twist on a smoking jacket perhaps?

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Smoking jacket would be my guess too.

 

[The Wingnut]

Smoking jacket doesn't seem that unlikely, but the contrasting ribbon on the cuff and the particularly heavy appearance of the construction gives the impression of a uniform item, possibly of a scholastic sort...maybe it's a band uniform? That'd be one sharp looking band.

 

[Dinerman]

I got it in today. Very interesting. Amazing wool, very soft and fine. Not shiny, as it looks in the pictures. I'm thinking it's masonic or something like that- it has stitch holes on the cuffs, from where patches once were, which are in the shape of crosses. The vent on the left hip is much larger than the vent on the right hip- maybe for a sword?
Looked up the tailor- he was a mason, admitted in 1902, so it stands to reason that the jacket would be masonic.

 

[Mid-fogey]

Band Jacket...

...Scotrace had a similar one on a thread.

The side vents are so you can sit down in the bandstand in the park.

 

[Dinerman]

I'm pretty sure it's not a band uniform. I'm leaning fraternal.
It's the outlines of the passion crosses on the sleeves, the masonic tailor, and the fact that the one side vent is so much longer.
Neat feature- the vents have hook and eye closures to keep them shut, I guess when you don't need them?