[Dr. Pain]

Hi

I need your professional opinions concerning buttons for this DB jacket. Yes the current ones appear to be plastic.

This will be worn as a sports coat. Probably with jeans or chinos.

Thanks

 

[JBierly]

Change the buttons to whatever you like but it will not look good with anything but the matching trousers that came with it.

 

[momsdoc]

^ Agreed. If it were not for the obscenely obvious faux pic stitching, the texture would make it a passable sports coat. Patch pockets would help also.

 

[jts287]

Commenting on the buttons only, I'd go with a darkish brown horn. Ebay has tons of button sets to check out

 

[Peak and Pine]

I don't see anything wrong with the buttons as is (except the top sleeve one is poorly sewn.) As for it looking like an orphan, not so sure on that. A variety of stand-alone jackets are manufactured in the glen plaid pattern. The gorge is a bit low and dates it a hair, but you want a jeans jacket. Go for it.

If it were not for the obscenely obvious faux pic stitching, the texture would make it a passable sports coat.

Not sure where the good doc is coming from. The definition of pick stitching does not preclude it being done by machine.

A staple of the Trad look is the swelled seam, which is made by machine-running an outside line c. 3/8ths of an inch in from the edge all along the front of he jacket. Pick stitching does the same except it skips every other stitch. Don't recall anyone ever terming the machined swelled-seam stitch as being faux. Why now with the machined pick?

 

[drlivingston]

I am guessing non-vented.