From Brooks Bros.: "Dress Like Draper!"

[habberdasher]

Check the stance on the one I posted above. The hole is right at the end of the lapel.

That's how 2b's should be!

 

[Matt Deckard]

I don't see the tension. It's just made the same as any 2 button with the third top button being an affectation. That suit has perfect balance and fit. But it has one button with which I don't agree.

 

[MrBern]

:eusa_clap Hear hear. More drape, less Draper.

But isnt that the point? More Draper for the show's demographic.. After all its a MadMen Edition garment....

 

[Matt Deckard]

As for the Mad Men edition. I've never really liked that edge stitching, especially on modern light weight materials... always makes it pucker and look cheap over time.

 

[habberdasher]

I don't see the tension. It's just made the same as any 2 button with the third top button being an affectation. That suit has perfect balance and fit. But it has one button with which I don't agree.

You're right-I guess I was imagining the tension. I don't like how the top buttonhole flips over to see the back, it looks trashy.

 

[Senator Jack]

But isnt that the point? More Draper for the show's demographic.. After all its a MadMen Edition garment....

RL is doing that style anyway. And vintage afficionados shouldn't be at war. There's plenty of room in the 20th century.

 

[MrBern]

RL is doing that style anyway. And vintage afficionados shouldn't be at war. There's plenty of room in the 20th century.

but is there plenty of room in the 21st century?

 

[MrBern]

I wish they hadnt gone with such a typical notch lapel. Some of the suits on the show have had more uniquely `60s flair:

 

[Tomasso]

3 rolled to the middle, a Brooks Standard..

A Savile Row standard as well; from Anderson & Sheppard:

I don't like how the top buttonhole flips over to see the back, it looks trashy.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

 

[AlanC]

^Very often the top buttonhole is sewn so that the 'reverse' is finished, thus it's meant to be shown.

I'll stand as a voice of dissent and say that I love the 3/2 roll.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

And if you click on "Buy the Suit" it tells you it's no longer available.

 

[Matt Deckard]

Well if you can't get it from Brooks, you can always go to where they got the suits for season 1.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I don't like how the top buttonhole flips over to see the back, it looks trashy.

Until the 1950s or so, the top buttonhole was almost always faced on both sides...so that if/when the wearer chose not to button the top buttonhole, it wouldn't look "trashy" if the lapel rolled back.


Today, only very high-end OTR (or MTM/bespoke) jackets have their top buttonhole faced on both sides.


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[Richard Warren]

My recollection is that the traditional Brooks Brothers three button suits were cut so that the top button could be buttoned without any distortion. It just was not the done thing. A good three button suit would not be flat in the lapel but would roll. No more of an affectation than the bottom button.

 

[Matt Deckard]

I'm not going by the button stitching, I'm going by the interfacing in the jacket. Even though they can button to the top, the interfacing rolls to the middle unlike a traditional 3 button. So they were are are made specially to button and look natural to the middle button just like a regular 2 button model.

 

[filfoster]

MadMen shop at Brooks?

I think it captures the spirit of the early 60's continental look perfectly, but $998 is kinda a hefty price tag.

I agree and I buy my daily work suits at Brooks (OK, I do wait for the sales!)-still pretty pricey. I just got two suits made by Baron Boutique in this '60's style for a small fraction of the Brooks price and with nice details like vented cuffs with working button holes, etc.. Save some swag for your Don Draper hat and shoes. I haven't seen any discussion of Baron on here but I suppose that's becasue they don't really make vintage style clothes. But they managed this 60's style for me! I'd stick with Indy Magnoli on earlier styles because he has the patterns and the track record.

 

[Tomasso]

I haven't seen any discussion of Baron on here

Have you searched?

 

[habberdasher]

Until the 1950s or so, the top buttonhole was almost always faced on both sides...so that if/when the wearer chose not to button the top buttonhole, it wouldn't look "trashy" if the lapel rolled back.


Today, only very high-end OTR (or MTM/bespoke) jackets have their top buttonhole faced on both sides.


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Interesting, I didn't know buttonholes did and do (rarely) face both sides.

 

[habberdasher]

I'm not going by the button stitching, I'm going by the interfacing in the jacket. Even though they can button to the top, the interfacing rolls to the middle unlike a traditional 3 button. So they were are are made specially to button and look natural to the middle button just like a regular 2 button model.

I'm not very experienced in terminology, so what do you mean by the "interfacing" and how it buttons to look natural to the middle button like a 2B?

 

[Tomasso]

I'm not very experienced in terminology

Then your moniker is very misleading as well as being misspelled.