Wear odd buttons on your odd jackets and casual suits.
Except for those working in a suit 5 days a week, I'd argue that the majority of jacket-wearers wear them without matching trousers. Depressingly though, one far to often sees people dressed in odd jackets looking ass if they simply "forgot the pants".
One way this can be prevented, and helps add an additional air of freedom, nonchalance and visual interest, is by choosing complementary coloured buttons to your suitings, as opposed to strictly matching them completely. Oh, and choose horn buttons over plastic if you can.
Whether this is done to give a casual suit a lighter air, or to make a jacket look like it's exactly that: "just a jacket", odd buttons do wonders for a less formal look.
Wear odd buttons on your odd jackets.
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ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know the original source of the photograph in this article? I'd like to give the appropriate credit, but the file was in a folder on my laptop without a source listed. Much obliged!