All I'm giving is a personal opinion.
I just find the Blazer currently dead.
Next year that could be different....

Fair play.
I believe Ivy to be current and not vintage/cute/retro. I like to play the 'timeless' card.
For our times, I just wonder about the Blazer.
One man's opinion.

A couple people may have misinterpreted my post. I tried to qualify it well that I don't dislike the blazer. But a navy blazer, as far as formal classifications of men's dress are concerned, lies in between a sport coat and a suit in formality. I have yet to see a modern functional need for this level of dress. Indeed I am among the youngest here and my experiences in life have been and will continue to be unique just like everyone else's. As far as I have seen, if you're dressing a blazer "down" with khakis and loafers, a sport coat would be equally socially acceptable. Similarly, if you are wearing a blazer to the extent of its formality- with flannels and oxfords- you might as well wear a suit.

I own and wear blazers but I've grown away from them a bit because- rather paradoxically I suppose- I prefer to wear my clothing items as casually as possible. I don't like to look dressed up, despite my wearing a tie and jacket every weekday (I lose the tie on weekends). I just don't like the whole plasticized look that seems to be prevalent, especially to a lot of #menswear folk. This also relates somewhat to the too-tight clothes that plague fashion today. I want to be comfortable. But I digress.

The blazer, due to its more formal nature than a sport coat, seems odder to me to wear on a daily basis. I mostly wear tweed or tweed-like fabrics year-round. In the summer I have a linen/wool herringbone jacket that gets a lot of use and I have some lighter wool jackets as well. That's just my personal style, of course. I don't mean to imply I don't think gentlemen like OCBD don't look good in their blazers! After all, we're all from different walks of life anyway. I live in a college town and I'm studying to be a professor... Tweed just comes with the territory.

The coordinator for the classical piano department here wears a navy blazer (and khakis) on a daily basis. Most of the really old folks (conducting professors and orchestra directors, it seems) lean toward tweed (mostly gray herringbone or similar, worn with black penny loafers).

Of course, one of my trumpet professors is one of those "shorts year-round" fellows so we get all types here.

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I only called Prince Charles a loser.
Even he is dead well unhappy about his status and significance.
  - All well documented.

/\  tweed is the best, I just wish the weather was more like it was in the '70s and '80s, that is to say, dependably cool and cold in the fall and winter ....

but the workhorse is still the ocbd because without it both the tweed and the blazer become part of a hybrid look .....

It's a great look, I imagine that's how I would look if I was 10 years younger and had hair. What was the make of shirt?

/\  nice comment, Farrago

I see blazers any time I go out, mine are 3/2 sacks, others have different kinds I don't like as much ....

btw the trim-fit blue blazer bums me out, Mr. J. Press .....

a blue blazer can be a parody item like when Danny Noonan wears one with a white yachting cap in the 'Shack or it can be a timesaver that I throw on at night for a party or an event or for work sometimes, particularly if I'm ducking in for a minute or two  ..... hopsack blazer, gray worsteds, yellow ocbd, loafers, every tie I own goes with this, haven't ever changed any element .....

it's a good item for when I'm feeling a bit lazy ... can't go wrong with it ....

more important than our agreeing is having thought about whether the blazer is relevant to me, and your points of view are duly noted and taken under advisement Joey and J. 'To ....

I like what Sidewinder wrote ....

socially I do see blazers, some of the wearers are geezers, all are geezers-in-training .... gits ....

I do see them on lawyers and my old schoolmates and friends ....

I'm loving the tweed but respecting the weather, the blue blazer works for me down here .....

plus blue is a favorite color of mine ....

to a certain degree when I see a bunch of blue blazers it's a group of (aging) preppies some of whom are still dressing Ivy ... but preppies have been keeping Ivy afloat since 1967 .....

Joey, you nailed it yourself: when you do pick up a blazer you actually like, a proper 3/2 natural shoulder with patch pockets, you'll find yourself reaching for it, I predict ......

J. 'To, glad you clarified, I bet you look just fine in a blazer ......

One more thing: obviously, please no badges or crests or piping or rowing stripes, leave the costumey stuff to RL Polo .......