Last edited by formby (2012-03-24 11:36:29)
Englishmen tend to wear the double breasted well. Their financial guys are often in them almost always striped. Fully unbuttoned but double breasted nonetheless. You cannot argue with a double breasted suit in the USA but I find that women often seem to think they are arbiters of what's in and what's out and will let you know where fashion stands with double breasted suits.
I have a DB that was made for me by Hawes & Curtis about 30 years ago, not a stripe but a Prince of Wales check. Whilst they are not of the 'Row' they were I believe originally in Cork St around the corner, and had the Duke of Windsor and Earl Mountbatten as customers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdTD0K66f8o&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a46GMx9gTA&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GHaGx8qL0&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_3mLPhvF8w&feature=relmfu
http://www.styleforum.net/t/299770/the-db-stare