Focus On: The Double Breasted Suit | Sartorial Styles feat. Oliver Wicks

• Check out Oliver Wicks and get a free Silk Tie with your first Custom Suit Order: https://www.oliverwicks.com/secret/6d6bc29c65d4e4bf9f5c6612573a1a03 • Take a look at the Navy Blue Pick & Pick Suit: https://www.oliverwicks.com/product/navy-blue-pick-pick-suit • Take a look at the Natural Brown Tweed Suit: https://www.oliverwicks.com/product/natural-brown-tweedsuit • Check out my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sartorialstylescom • Watch Hugo Jacomet's Video about Double Breasted Suits: https://youtu.be/_Gb-rq-9RAs --- Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m Benjamin and you are watching Sartorial Styles. In this installment we focus on the double breasted suit. Intro Before we start, give me a second to say thank you to Oliver Wicks. Oliver Wicks is an online made to measure service offering suits, shirts and accessories. The double breasted suit I am wearing right at the moment is made by Oliver Wicks of a Super 150’s wool fabric from Vitale Barberis Canonico. They did not pay me to do this video and I even paid the full price of this suit myself. They did generously offer me to help promoting this video. So, where do I start? A double breasted suit technically is a double breasted jacket with a matching pair of trousers. There is nothing like a double breasted pair of trousers and, of course, there can be a double breasted jacket without matching trousers. Probably the most famous example for this is a classic navy blazer with gold brass buttons. Double breasted means, in contrast to single breasted, that you have overlapping front flaps with two columns of buttons. In my native language, German, a jacket like this is called a Zweireiher, which basically translates to jacket with two rows of buttons. Like the jacket you currently see on screen, most modern double breasted jackets come with six buttons. Especially on more formal garments like tuxedos, four buttons are pretty usual, too. The most common button stance is six on two. A six on two jacket features a