Comments on: A Man’s Primer on the Blazer Jacket

By: Gerald

Gerald — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:15:21 +0000

The Navy Blue Blazer goes also excellent with red trousers. (corduroy)

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:58:35 +0000

Sorry, I stopped wearing Blazers after every building security, customer service drone, and realtor started wearing them. I wear bland earth tone sport coats, crisp white dress shirt with neutral color slacks; leather laced boots, a solid color tie, and Casio Dive watch. Most of the time I don’t wear the jacket, which means I wear a v neck shirt or sweater over a colored tee. I pretty much dress like Mark Harmon in NCIS, but with a lot less attitude, and make up for it by making sure the clothes are clean, with a sharp crease on the slacks. Oh, one other thing, none of my pants have pleats, or are relaxed fit, at 53 it just makes me look sloppy. Bald so hair is buzzed or shaved, clean shaven, with teeth cleaned twice a year, but no bleaching. It works for me. I’m new here so I wanted to let you know.

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:06:04 +0000

Great post! The kind of thorough overview a guy should print out and take a peek every time when going to buy a blazer or deciding how to wear one. I haven’t seen many of those double-breasted blazers though – probably because these don’t fit every body type.

By: JS

JS — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:18:59 +0000

I’m English and go to Cambridge University, and the position I take on Blazers is that they should only be worn at Summer garden parties (or yachts, not that I have that opportunity) and then only if earned – the most obvious is the University Blue blazer, but there are also college boat/rugby/cricket club ones. Unless I earn one, I won’t wear one.

For occasions when shirt and tie is required, it will always be a suit for me. Blazers are too informal.

By: art

art — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:13:48 +0000

@ Terry: The vents (the cuts on either side of that flap) as well as the pockets are usually sewn shut during assembly to keep everything flat. Do cut the threads before wearing the jacket.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:13:43 +0000

Hello,
Thanks very much for his site and this article.

I’m just beginning to focus more on my own proper style and have what seems like a simple question about a blazer I just purchased:

The blazer has a flap on the lower back that has been tied down with two pieces of string, one on each side of the flap. Is there a specific reason for this? Should I leave the flap tied down or cut the strings?

By: art

art — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:45:34 +0000

Jeans of any kind with an odd jacket is pushing it depending on your location and the social setting. With a blazer is unacceptable anywhere.

@ Antonio: Tom Ford looks like an ass wearing a suit without a tie, making the rest of us that much farther from pulling it off.

By: Chris Kavanaugh

Chris Kavanaugh — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:47:18 +0000

I’ve tried not to comment on the ‘designer jeans’ with blazer. Levis were first sold to California gold miners. The pants were durable, little more as the #1 killer was not Jouquin Murietta, but exposure. The things are hot in the summer,cold in winter and worn tight enough produce enough heat to decimate sperm counts. 5 pair will shrink 10 ways and getting a perfect fit in one simple luck. They aren’t even made in San Francisco anymore or in the heavy material that was their sole virtue and cost 100 fold more for some fake eyetalian designer house.
The blazer. By all means lets all look like a moviestar turned from putting coke up his nose to sniffing Jesus; resplendant in jeans, tennis shoes. blazer and tshirt on some religious programme telling how Joseph’s coat of many colours saved his soul though sartorially damned. It doesn’t require shatnez codes to realise bluejeans and navy blazer look like a goodwill Industries ensemble the cat peed on.

By: Mack Hall

Mack Hall — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:37:14 +0000

I shalt wear khaki in all seasons. So, ha. And as Bertie Wooster would say, I mean for that “Ha” to sting.

By: Chris Kavanaugh

Chris Kavanaugh — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:09:12 +0000

I was waiting for my reserved table at a ocean side eatery. Man in a blazer decides as president of the local yacht club he had ‘earned’ my table. I was informed of this with a finger jerked toward a 60′ ketch tied nearby. I jerked my finger toward a Coast Guard 378′ high endurance cutter. “That’s my ship. Your sailboat’s name again is?”
A versatile item,the blazer: I just worry about some people getting chocolate on the lining.