Need urgent styling assistance with this Hickey Freeman pinstripe suit jacket

[_Alexander_]

Good evening, everyone. I'm relatively new to the menswear scene, and I may have committed a major faux pas in regard to my recent purchase. I picked up this Hickey Freeman jacket (Madison fit) from TheRealReal for what I thought was a steal. The jacket fits exceptionally well and is in pristine condition. The problem is, I neglected to realize that pinstripe suits really ought to be worn with matching trousers, which I do not have. The solutions I see to this are twofold: either I find the matching trousers--hopefully using the info from the tag which I have attached--or find a way to style this. I've seen good advice on this forum, and I hope something can be done to help my plight. Thanks in advance!

 

[KOz]

Honestly you either find a matching pair of trousers (tricky as even the same type of trousers can be cut from different fabric rolls) or that's that - styling this as a separate will be difficult.

 

[maxalex]

First, you will not find matching trousers.

That leaves styling it. An odd pinstripe jacket is going to scream “suit orphan” to anyone who knows or cares about classic menswear. Which these days is almost nobody.

One option, depending on your personal comfort zone, is to just roll with it and go extreme—say, with khaki chinos, black tassel loafers, a knitted black polo and bandanna. In other words, flipping the middle finger at the rules. You can find streetwear influencers like that all over IG. But it takes confidence in sartorial choices that you may not yet have.

Another issue is that your jacket’s 3-button style is quite dated and never really caught on for the very good reason that it doesn’t flatter the male figure like a lower button stance.

Personally I would return it or, if that’s not possible, bin it as a learning experience. Guessing it didn’t cost much.

 

[Using Technology]

Yeah 99.999% chance you won't find the pants and those who know the menswear rules will know it is orphaned...but also virtually no one outside of this forum cares about those rules or will notice and if you wear it with jeans to an event most people will be like "damn, looking good." So up to you if you want to just go for it.

 

[NORE]

Some good advice has already been given so I'll offer this; good on you for the effort. Remember, when buying a jacket alone, either solid or check pattern and two button max. No stripes.

 

[Scott_ColmoreTailors]

Decent fit, but a kill without the trousers