THE LAST DETAIL
Te Waistcoat – probably the most personal item of clothing in your wardrobe, but never forget the golden rule about the butons
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ractical as well as ticking every aesthetic box, the waistcoat is simply indispensable. Decreed by Charles II as an essential element of correct dress, the waistcoat is as plain as it is elaborate, sublime as unfortunately as it can be comic. A waistcoat can be so right and so very wrong. Buttoning is key. Never, ever choose a single breasted example with two, four or six buttons. Seven is the golden rule (double breasted waistcoats do not bow to this rule). Always, always, the last button is left undone on a contemporary example. The Regency bucks and their associates usually sported a different cut, often cut straight to meet the trouser waist. This non-buttoning of the last, of course, was apparently due to the corpulence of one of our monarchs – I won’t be specific to spare certain blushes – and it actually looks better for it anyway; even on the trimmest torso. R
SAVILE ROW STYLE MAGAZINE French waistcoat, circa 1750 W
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