Suit Jackets, Sport Coats, & Blazers: What's the Difference? - Menswear Definitions
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When you shop at a department store or large clothing retailer, you’ll often see any sort of tailored jacket for sale listed as a “blazer.” But not every jacket with lapels and buttons can accurately bear this name!
What is a Suit Jacket?
A suit jacket is precisely that: the jacket belonging to a two- or three-part outfit including matching pants and/or waistcoat, which together make up a complete suit. Thus, a suit jacket always originates from a pairing that uses the same exact fabric for both (or all) pieces. In other words, being made as part of an ensemble is the essential defining feature of a suit jacket.
What is a Sport Coat?
A sport coat is also known as an “odd jacket,” odd not in the sense of being weird-even though some sport coat patterns can be quite strange-but in the sense of being different from the pants (which can also be called “odd trousers”). Confusion can arise here, as well; look no further than someone who isn’t up to speed on the technicalities of menswear seeing your sport coat and saying, “nice suit!” This isn’t right, but accept the compliment graciously without correcting the mistake.
What is a Blazer?
Technically, a blazer is the most specific of the three jacket types-and also the rarest-because it has to fulfill certain criteria to be defined strictly as such. For example, a blazer can come in a solid color (most often navy blue), or incorporate features like a contrast piping or a striped pattern. All other patterns, speaking most technically, disqualify a jacket from being a blazer.
Everyday language often fails to recognize the differences when defining suit jackets, blazers, and sport coats. And while there are certain distinctions among these three forms of jacket, the endless options offered for sale today feature a great many hybrids, as well. There are casual suits with unstructured jackets that fit like sport coats, and blazers that fit the same way too. These reflect the prevailing trend for more relaxed and less formal cuts, blurring the lines in the process. Even so, those who appreciate precision will want to ensure that they’re using the proper terminology.
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Great video Preston. I get tired of people calling my suit jackets Blazers, and now all I have to do is show them this video.
Preston's face in the thumbnail is priceless.
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He looks cute with those massive eyes!
Mmmmhmm... giggity...
I like the little liquor table in the background.
I would love to know where you can find a liquor table like that one. Thank you.
I froze the video at the 10 second mark. This should be good. This subject confuses SO MANY people, including me. I think Preston with his very articulate manner and attention to very specific detail, is exactly the person needed for this type of subject. Thanks.
This is EXTREMELY informative! I almost couldn't handle it all, but I can always watch it again. Now I need to check out more of your channel.
I have basically been wearing a sports coat for a while now and most people think its a suit. They have no idea.
Another very interesting video! I love hearing where some terms/words come from and "blazer" is one I won't forget. Very informative and succinct! Well done again, Preston! My favorite teacher!! :-)
I just met you at a whataburger in San Antonio! True gentleman!
Is that where he is based?
Great video. Just to be clear when you refer to British field sports the term is "shooting" (e.g. pheasant shooting) or "stalking" for deer. Hunting refers to hunting on horseback for fox, deer etc. with hounds.
In America, its all hunting. Unless its alligator, then they call it fishing, because you catch them on a line and then shoot.
Thank you tho, for non english-speaking such info is very useful!
Just to be clear, who cares.
I picked up a deep green blazer with rich brown buttons not too long ago. Absolutely love it. It is probably my most worn jacket now
I certainly learned something, but didn't expect to. Great video!
I love this channel. It's nice to know not only WHAT we wear but WHY and HOW.
In old French, and archaic English, the word “Blazon” meant “crest”. Thus the Blazer, traditionally meant any jacket with a crest on it. And then the popularity of the blazer springing from academia, brought it into the mass market.
Great video as always, guys. I've always admired tweed jackets, though I've never owned one. I'm going have a browse through your older videos to see if you've done one on different ways to wear a tweed jacket today.
I have a hypothesis regarding the blanket usage of the word blazer. I think that sport jacket/coat are commonly understood as casual jackets. Essentially denoting an active lifestyle type of garment. On the other hand a blazer will denote a type of structured garment similar in style to a suit jacket. It's utility to convey an idea (even as a misnomer) is helpful.
If I wanted to thoroughly search for a suit jacket style of garment I would use Suit jacket/separates, sport coat/jacket and blazer. I think this is particularly useful for finding second hand garments.
Learned a lot today. Thank you!
Thank you!!! I have been very curious about this topic.
Cheers for this informative vid Preston 👍
Very interesting video! I’ve wondered about this for a while, so I found this very helpful :)
Thanks for the video. I have a sports jacket, which I've always referred to as such, so it's good to know I wasn't getting it wrong all this time!
By the way, I love that Austin Reed poster and I have bought a vintage AR suit off eBay off the back of seeing it. Traditional British brand!
The video i never knew i needed ! Thank you so much. Cheers from Colombia amigo!
Thank you for creating this fantastic guide for the modern man.
On point educational video as usual... Great job you guys !!!
Great info, thanks guys! 👍🏾
Great info Preston, well done !
This was an amazingly informative video. Thank you.
With the UK in a lockdown I'm dusting off the informal smoking jacket! The content on this channel is brilliant. Keep up the good work chaps.
You shall emerge like a dapper Phoenix. Smoke and all eh?
Excellent ! Many thanks for clarifying all points so well !
Great video and super helpful content!
Great video 👏👏👏 I can appreciate the history behind the items. Personally I only wear suits for some reason sport coats & blazers does not appeal to my sense of style.
Too many rules. As a blue collar truck driver in the US it's pretty simple. Wear a goodwill suit jacket with jcpenny black slacks and a jcpenny shirt European cut slim fit. Affordable Italian Spezzato style and your better dressed than 98% of the men around you. I do it occasionally and the difference between wearing T shirt and jeans is amazing. The women notice and start conversations and the service I get in establishments is stellar.
I get a lot of sport coats from thrift shops. My office wardrobe is quite elaborate but I haven't spent a lot of money on it.
Preston's diction is classy and perfect.
I'd like to hear him recite the lyrics to "Stagger Lee"...
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I remember you! You're the one who taught me about watches!
Fancy as always sir!
Great video! Thanks for the information.
For some time I have worn a blazer with matching trousers for formal events where others would wear a suit. In a sense it is a suit because the fabric of the trousers and jacket mix, but it doesn't half stand out with the gold buttons, amongst the boring conventional suit wearers.
A deep dive on sport coats and where to find them would be good to watch
Thank you for confirming what I knew by upbringing / intuition without being sure why.
Great information, especially the blazer part
A blazer and and a matching color pair of pants or contrasting color, if you choose to go with a contrasting color of pants, go with shoes that match the pants and a shirt that compliments or is an opposite of the jacket/blazer.
Thanks for sharing. Very informative.
And now I know! Thanks, Preston.
That bow tie looks like an advertisement from a wafer we have here in Sweden. The pattern looks identical and are called kexchoklad.
Haha märkte inte det tills jag läste din kommentar skrämmande likt ju hahaha.
Haha jag tyckte också det.
Är kanske baserad på det
Sjukt likt!
Men är det kex eller "shex"?
That pocket square is spectacular.
Wonderful work as usual, Gentleman's Gazette team.
The Italians call it "Spezzato." I call it "saving money on clothes"
This is the best video I have seen on this topic. Sports jackets are frequently more expensive to buy than full suits, despite being 'casual' or informal. Is there another term we could use then, as 'casual' is normally equated with inexpensive?
Suits are for the city and therefore an indoor environment (the office). They therefore require a coat to cover outdoors. Sports jackets on the other hand are for the countryside and therefore contain elements of both, as they are required to offer protection from the elements. That's why they are three buttoned, slightly raised, worn with longer sleeves to cover the shirt sleeve completely. You can also wear more hardwearing trousers with a sports.
That covers men. Unfortunately, women's business attire is all over the place, which suggests that gender should just stay at home or occupy themselves in traditional female roles such as nursing, childrearing or teaching.
"... 'casual' is normally equated with inexpensive..."
I've never used it that way. "Casual" means "relaxed" or "informal," but not "inexpensive."
@@seikibrian8641 Thanks for that clarification. Casual, informal or relaxed, nevertheless, have connotations of inferiority to formal. I suggest use of the term 'loungewear'.
@@rastrats Confusingly, a suit jacket is also known as a lounge jacket. When I first heard the latter, I pictured a velvet smoking jacket, but nope, it was a suit jacket. (And in eastern Europe, "smoking jacket" or its equivalent refers to a tuxedo.)
Well, on EBay you can easily determine the type of the jacket when they're being listed.
Thank you!
Great video. I have a wedding to attend and it will be informal at noon time. I am planning to wear white pants and a blazer ( which I still have to buy).
Instead of plain or otherwise stamped brass buttons on a blazer, I am wondering if brass buttons with ones own monogram deeply etched into them would be an appropriate addition to the look of the garment?
Preston is the man
Thank you. Interesting and informative. I was saddened by the closure of Austin Reed, and the poster in the background is a nice touch.
Thanks Preston! 😃
It is our pleasure! :)
Loved this one!
Thank goodness you made this video 😅I trust you to lay down the facts!
I love these videos
Thank you.
this could very well be the best video on YT! i am really tired of people saying eww youre in a suit for no reason. or why are you wearing a blazer to go out to walk. and im just like umm sport jacket and jeans, look it up sometime. then theyre like um that doesent look athletic and im just like *faceplant*
I’ve got a half sport coat; it’s not patterned but it’s got patch pockets.
What do you think of a Royal Blue suit coat with jet black trousers, need your advice please
Excellent
So, the elegant uniforms with the club's emblem on the chest pocket worn by football players are blazers, right?
Austin Reed poster behind you - elegant. I recently stumbled upon a full suit at my local thrift store by Austin Reed. I love it! Are Reed suits vintage and worth alot of money?
That sport coat is perfect. Any tips on where to find one like that?
rather a long video to me, but an informed one as well
Excellent as usual! I liked Preston posing in a very classic gentlemanly way... chin up, hand nonchalantly in blazer's pocket, almost like Michael Cane does in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" ;)
I have been searching online to find out what type of pocket I found on a Jack wills jacket at a thrift store. Was hoping you could help me! It has a curved snap-closure opening around the second of 3 buttons on the front. I can’t find info on it anywhere! Any ideas?
I wear a felt leather cowboy hat, caimen boots, cowhide gun leather belt, denim pants, and a oiled duster when the weather turns. How did the algorithm figure to put this in my feed?
Thumbed ya up anyhoo.
Frasier Crane would be proud :-)
I honestly didn't know that there was an official term for putting a suit jacket on with something else. Good to know; although I doubt I'll ever use spezzato in a casual conversation.
Informative.
Thank you!!!
thanks !
Just in time!
So sport coat either with inner brief or t-shirt golf wear and sport coat with tie only with brief
I need to make a trip to Blakey Mitchell which it the only suit shop we have in the entire area. I wish I did have the money to build my wardrobe the way I would love to.
Can a sports jacket, pants and vest made out of tweed be worn as a full suit in a vintage style?
Good video
Is it possible to do a video about how to wear a suit like james bond
Of course, to further confuse the issue, are uses of terms like “sports jacket” and “suit coat.” I think it would be good to standardize terms for garments based on clear reference points from physiology. Like coat vs. jacket is really based on where the bottom hem falls in relation to the waist, correct? Jackets fall just to the waist and coats fall (any of various amounts, depending on particular style) below the waist.
It's not that simple. For example, waistcoats stop at the waist and military field jackets fall below the waist. And the top-most garment in a suit has typically been called a jacket, not a coat.
SeikiBrian they do now, but waistcoats in centuries past used to go well below the waist with large pocketed skirts. When you talk about “field jackets” I’m not sure where the term was first coined, but for the U.S. Army, the M1938 and later M1941 field jackets were only waist-length. So, the later evolution of field jackets in the U.S. parlance only seems to suggest that the term “field jacket” was kept in use despite how the garments changed (falling below the waist as you suggest). I would be interested in that term’s use with other countries to see how it matches with hem lengths. And perhaps the top part of a suit is now usually called a jacket, but when the suit we know today came about (more or less the 1860s - yes, I mean the decade of the Civil War, not the Civil Rights movement) the terms for the top piece in the ensemble were “lounge coat” in British English and “sack coat” in American English. Yikes! That’s confusing for sure haha. Also, there is a phrase that I think might still be in common use, “coat and tie,” that to me suggests that it was still being called a coat into more recent times. My entire point of the first comment was (hopefully) to recognize that there IS confusion but to espouse standardization. Maybe it’s all a pipe dream!
i just got a ralph lauren Herringbone sport coat & i'm SO fucken excited‼️😁😁😁
I once saw, at LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall, a young chap wearing a suit jacket, suit pants, and sandals with his toes sticking out.
Can you do a video on Norfolk jackets
Please tell me what is a tuxedo?
Where do they find these old paintings of Gentlemans? I Love them!
realmakebelieve thanks! And i had found another way a few minutes ago: search for „Gentleman‘s Gazette Paintings“ by Google 😊
What's your opinion on popover shirts?
When would they be appropriate to wear?
Great video but hasn't this already been covered?
6:58 nice to see John from 40 Over Fashion
you guus are great!!
guys*
Boa tarde, trabalho em loja de ternos qual o comprimento ideal para manga de um paletó?
Agradeço desde já
A jacket arms length should be at the wrist when your shoulders are down and relaxed. Stretch your arms out. Check if it now rests between your wrist and your forearm.
First time seeing something from this channel. Good stuff but the guys sounds likes he's gonna cry at any minute. 10/10
Would you please tell us what are good sources to buy suiting fabric online? good quality wool from thrusted sellers. Thanks
Keep clear of Studio Suits. The master tailors there can not tell the difference between a 3 or a 7!!!
Is having your family crest on your blazer jacket considered tacky?
11:07 my man rethinking his life decisions 😂
They used a kingsman picture nice 🙂
Cool!
What's the diff between a sport coat and a sports coat.
nice and informative video. you need more depth of field in your closeups, though...
who made your blazer?
Preston: Do you have a video explaining why a casual style is named as "sport"? Specially because in current times the image of an "sport jacket" may be very different for each age group. Even for me, an "sport" garment is that used for the practice of an sport.
As they were originally used for hunting and game shooting.