3 button suits really out of style?

[patrickBOOTH]

Well David Reeve's stuff is just more "true-3". Neapolitan stuff isn't. What you're saying is you like true 3 button suits. I on the other hand, don't like true 3 suits that much. There's no beauty to the roll of the lapel. I like a roll. Seeing the buttonhole is a thing of beauty, especially when it is a hand made buttonhole. It's lapel candy.

 

[MisterFu]

I say three button or one button. Two buttons are lame, imo. They are too common, vanilla. Plus, a two button suit with a nice roll to the lapel just looks weird, whereas a one or two button just looks more balanced to my eye.

I agree with you that the three button or one button (I love my one buttons, peak lapel with double breasted waistcoats) are more interesting, but they are fraught with peril. There is no way to do a one or three button sloppily and have it be even remotely acceptable anywhere. Put another way, any slob can slap on a two button suit from Jos.A.Bank and look somewhat presentable even if everything doesn't fit quite right. But, a 3 button that isn't cut well and doesn't fit well looks really, really terrible. A one button done poorly can be even more catastrophic; the more exotic the suit, the more important that it's done well. Given that you have 27,500+ posts on SF, you probably know how to do it well.

 

[vida]



Well David Reeve's stuff is just more "true-3". Neapolitan stuff isn't. What you're saying is you like true 3 button suits. I on the other hand, don't like true 3 suits that much. There's no beauty to the roll of the lapel. I like a roll. Seeing the buttonhole is a thing of beauty, especially when it is a hand made buttonhole. It's lapel candy.

Yes, that is what I'm getting at...the "true-3". However, I do agree with the beauty of a hand made buttonhole.

 

[patrickBOOTH]



Given that you have 27,500+ posts on SF, you probably know how to do it well.

Or I am just trigger happy?

 

[greger]

There are so many variables that blanket statements don't work. Looking at these forums for ten to fifteen years, let's say, buttons holes on the roll, most are clumsily done from the British, haven't seen any Italian that I care for either. Why don't I like them? The lapel roll is so wimpy and the button holes are to stiff. Better made lapels and buttonholes that flows with the roll of the lapel and placed there as a good work of art, because that is what it is supposed to be, and not the sloppy stuff produced today.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

No, that comes with the age of the garment ^

Show us sloppy vs. nice. I don't get what you're saying.

 

[J. Cogburn]

I think that DB and hard 3Bs are so difficult to fit well off the wrack that if you're going that route, you should go bespoke if you can afford it. If you like 2Bs, on the other hand, you can do just fine with off the wrack purchases and a good tailor to tidy things up. That's how I roll. 2Bs primarily from RLBL. 3Bs and DBs from Will Field in Georgetown. His 3B silhouette is very much like those posted from David Reeves. Classically British ... very close to the Henry Poole's look.

 

[traverscao]

I think that DB and hard 3Bs are so difficult to fit well off the wrack that if you're going that route, you should go bespoke if you can afford it. If you like 2Bs, on the other hand, you can do just fine with off the wrack purchases and a good tailor to tidy things up. That's how I roll. 2Bs primarily from RLBL. 3Bs and DBs from Will Field in Georgetown. His 3B silhouette is very much like those posted from David Reeves. Classically British ... very close to the Henry Poole's look.

The reason an individual would spend money on bespoke is because that individual wants the garment to be their own, and I'd say, unless you care less, you should ALWAYS go to a tailor for suit, regardless of suit types.

Moreover, a two button suit should fit very well, or else, off the rack two button suits can still make someone look really hideous.

 

[traverscao]

Well David Reeve's stuff is just more "true-3". Neapolitan stuff isn't. What you're saying is you like true 3 button suits. I on the other hand, don't like true 3 suits that much. There's no beauty to the roll of the lapel. I like a roll. Seeing the buttonhole is a thing of beauty, especially when it is a hand made buttonhole. It's lapel candy.

True 3 takes away much of the shirt and thus cover up too much of the needed contrast, therefore it makes the suit boring.

 

[greger]

"I on the other hand, don't like true 3 suits that much. There's no beauty to the roll of the lapel. I like a roll."

A nice roll can be put easy when custom.

 

[greger]



Show us sloppy vs. nice. I don't get what you're saying.

Don't have any pictures, but saw some very nice ones 50 years ago.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

You're all idiots.

 

[traverscao]

What the hell LOL!

 

[MisterFu]



You're all idiots.

Yeeeahhhh, I'm gonna have to go ahead and agree with you on that.

 

[David Reeves]



Don't have any pictures, but saw some very nice ones 50 years ago.

Riiiight.....