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I JUST love to wear a waist coat with a suit or a jacket and slacks. Something about it gents that just raises the stakes in cutting a dash! Of course waist coats are nothing new, and gentlemen from the 18th Century can be seen strutting their stuff in a fine array of these little jackets with big hearts. If a waist coat were reincarnated as a dog, I dare say it would be a breed like a mini schnauzer or a highland terrier, small in stature...but with the heart of a lion, that just demands to be respected.
Far from being the jacket's poor relation, or the young pretender to the throne, I personally feel it is the "power" behind the throne, that lifts the overall dress of the gentleman.
So versatile, it can be worn as a semi-casual item with the jacket off, in a variety of fabrics (moleskin is my fav) from a heavy country gent's tweed to a fine linen or flannel, to being worn as the full suit of armour as a three piece suit.
I rarely get compliments about a suit I wear, or a jacket...BUTTTTT, the waistcoats get LOADS, especially from the ladies! to quote one; " I love to see a man wearing a waistcoat, it's far too rare these days!!"
Yes gentlemen, there's something about a fine waistcoat that just raises you above the rest of the crowd. And the good news is, we're coming into good waist coat wearing weather again in many parts of the northern hemisphere, as autumn/fall settles in.
A figure hugging double breasted waistcoat, watch and chain, now that's what I call STYLE! (and don't forget, with single breasted waistcoats, always leave the bottom button undone, a fine tradition since one of the Kings of England established it).
So, who else has a penchant for waistcoats? and show us your pics (I know! I'm getting some sorted as we speak
Far from being the jacket's poor relation, or the young pretender to the throne, I personally feel it is the "power" behind the throne, that lifts the overall dress of the gentleman.
So versatile, it can be worn as a semi-casual item with the jacket off, in a variety of fabrics (moleskin is my fav) from a heavy country gent's tweed to a fine linen or flannel, to being worn as the full suit of armour as a three piece suit.
I rarely get compliments about a suit I wear, or a jacket...BUTTTTT, the waistcoats get LOADS, especially from the ladies! to quote one; " I love to see a man wearing a waistcoat, it's far too rare these days!!"
Yes gentlemen, there's something about a fine waistcoat that just raises you above the rest of the crowd. And the good news is, we're coming into good waist coat wearing weather again in many parts of the northern hemisphere, as autumn/fall settles in.
A figure hugging double breasted waistcoat, watch and chain, now that's what I call STYLE! (and don't forget, with single breasted waistcoats, always leave the bottom button undone, a fine tradition since one of the Kings of England established it).
So, who else has a penchant for waistcoats? and show us your pics (I know! I'm getting some sorted as we speak
