Prince Charles single-breasted jacket

[CrimsonSox]

We rarely see Prince Charles in single-breasted jackets, but he wore one recently for the opening of the Prince's Drawing School at Dumfries House. The jacket is a darted 3-roll-2. He's paired the tweed jacket with corduroys instead of grey flannels. The sleeves have turn-back cuffs.




Detail of back of jacket. Does the backward sloping shoulder seam suggest that this is an A&S?






Savile Row vs. Pitti Uomo:

 

[Ich_Dien]

Good find. A well put together casual look.

 

[Cleav]



Good find. A well put together casual look.

+1 i like it. Is it a little roomy?

 

[CrimsonSox]

Speaking of the single-breasted jacket, here's Prince Charles wearing one, while standing next to Cary Grant and Farrah Fawcett (1977). Good times!

 

[Cleav]



Speaking of the single-breasted jacket, here's Prince Charles wearing one, while standing next to Cary Grant and Farrah Fawcett (1977). Good times!

Good stuff. With of course Sophia Loren and the six million dollar man!

 

[inimitable]

He was wearing another SB jacket recently

My particular favourite of recent is this DB with turnback cuffs

 

[Holdfast]

The jacket is a darted 3-roll-2.

To be picky, I don't think it's meant as a 3-2 roll. Looks like a typical 3 button jacket, albeit with a fairly generous roll that allows him to avoid the need to necessarily do up the top button.

Thanks for linking the photos; it's a nice outfit.

 

[Layered Player]

Looks like the old boy's lost a bit of weight.

HF, do you think he'd step aside in favor of William if ERII reigns another 10 years?

 

[Holdfast]

HF, do you think he'd step aside in favor of William if ERII reigns another 10 years?

You ask me as if I should have some kind of unique insight into his thought process!

But if I were to guess: no, almost definitely not.

 

[Layered Player]

No sir, I just figured since you were a lot closer to it than I, you probably understood it better and would offer a more educated wild-assed guess than my own.

For the record, I agree.

 

[GBR]



Looks like the old boy's lost a bit of weight.

HF, do you think he'd step aside in favor of William if ERII reigns another 10 years?

No. (EIIR)

 

[GBR]



He was wearing another SB jacket recently

My particular favourite of recent is this DB with turnback cuffs

Whilst his single breasted sports coat are not unusual, single breasted suit coats are.

 

[gyalos]



Speaking of the single-breasted jacket, here's Prince Charles wearing one, while standing next to Cary Grant and Farrah Fawcett (1977). Good times!

Is this a notch lapel dinner jacket?

 

[cptjeff]



Is this a notch lapel dinner jacket?

Yes it is. The internet invented the idea that they're incorrect. Notch lapels have been common and correct on dinner jackets since the invention of semi-formal eveningwear- at one point in one of these threads I dug up some photos from the 30's of a black tie event showing notch, peak, and shawl present in roughly equal proportion. The iGent rule sprung up from the fact that most tuxedos/DJs being sold today are of the cheap, two button, notch lapel variety, making it wise to differentiate yourself from that look. That morphed into "only peak or shawl is ever correct", which got preached to a bunch of people coming on forums like this who didn't know any better. Very similar to the 'black suits are and always have been evil' myth, now that I think about it.

Prince Charles' dinner jacket in that photo is entirely correct and proper. Looks good on him too, though these days he favors (what else) a double breasted one.

 

[Jonathan Strang]

I don't understand - is there someone else in that photograph with Farrah Fawcett?