Absolutely.

Somewhere in the 1970s and 1980s the double breasted jacket was irretrievably distorted by fashion, and they are mostly dead today.

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My grandfather was a chronological contemporary of President Truman, bore a remarkable resemblance to him, and, like Truman, was a haberdasher/clothier and largely self-educated gentleman in every sense of the word.  For those reasons and many others (including bourbon and branch water), he admired Truman immensely.  Another way in which my grandfather resembled Truman was that he favored beautifully cut, double breasted suits.  Although the peaks of the lapels in the suit shown in the photograph above are angled upward, Truman was known in his day for favoring “floor level” lapels of the sort show here:

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Those were also my grandfather’s favorite; and so, some years ago, when a retailer I frequented had such DBs made up in a limited run, I was quite pleased to purchase one in a 8/9 oz. brown/cream/black pick-and-pick.  Though it has been perhaps fifteen years, I still mourn the victimization of the suit’s jacket by a hoard of south Florida moths.  I know those Miami larvae were the culprits, because it was the only suit I took with me on that particular New Year’s trip, where it hung in the closet of the boat on which we were staying, and it was the only garment so damaged when I broke out my warm weather suits the following spring.  Fond memories but for the f—ing moths.  And apropos the newly resurrected brown suit thread, my suit wore beautifully with a black lisle polo and black calf slip ons (no socks as long as ankles were tanned).