Lucky:  looks like it works for you.  Who cleans your tiles?  Marvelous job.

I really like that.

I rock old Brooks Broz 'Makers' & Jacobi Press. I should get a new one.

Andover looks like the way to go. My alterations chap can then punch in a 3rd button hole...

I'm solidly 'merican-middle so I wear a blazer with just about anything - four-in-hand reps, foulard, club, bow, tieless - chinos, gabs, flannels (no jeans though, I'm not hip enough and my standard issue gut makes it worse).  Oxford, broadcloth, plain, stripe, check shirts - only BD collars though. 

If you want to witness blazerphilia in the US visit an i-banking conference with "business casual" dress - 9 out of 10 will have a blazer on.

I have a vintage 3/2 sack BB blazer similar to what Horace describes above--2 button sleeve, slightly rough fabric, etc.

I'm not wearing it much recently.  I like it with jeans, white OCBD, thin regimental stripe tie, and black Chuck Taylors--a slightly punky, edgy take, maybe.  Just barely.

They are tricky, in my opinion.  They have accumulated so much semiotic freight that you have to mess with the context to reclaim them as a cool garment, if that makes any sense.

I do like the purist approach with chinos and Weejuns, but it has to be done flawlessly to avoid the above mentioned dangers.

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Ol Chums,

I rather fancy blazers.  Light-weight flanel, hopsack, even mid-weight worsted.  All good, depending in situ and make-up.

I think the garment may suffer somewhat like the Barbour jackets and Lacoste shirts in that it is ubiquitous. 

Cheers,
Trip

PS to ol Horace -- I presume an exception to your rules would clearly lie for the Ben Silver "Classic-American-Blazer", eh?

The advertisement with the blazer/gingham shirt dates from 1955.

So, if the full combination of blazer, shirt and tie is thought a bit naff in London, does the same stigma apply to Americans who sport it there?  Isn't it just expected that we'll do that and that we don't fit at all neatly into the English class system?