Men, do you know why the last stamp on the sac?

There's a fundamental rule when it comes to buttoning a suit jacket: “Sometimes, always and never --x1> If you have a three - stamp jacket, sometimes you grab the top button, always the middle button and never grab the lower button.

And in a suit with two buttons, you always have to button the top button and never the second one.

No matter what suit you're wearing, the bottom stamp should never button

Likewise, the similar rule exists for the vest: Always leave the lower stamp open.

It's men's fashion gospel (women usually allowed themselves to break that rule). Men's costume designers often fit the fabric, so jackets and costume vests seem more flattering if they are broken down at the bottom.

But this is also a strange rule of fashion why have a stamp if you don't want to use it? Where does this tradition come from?

The answer goes back to a king who was overweight: King Edward V II

The story of this king (who ruled from 1901 to 1910) is often dismissed as a myth but is completely true.

As bloggers and fashion magazines tell you, it's a story King Edward told you. V II, when he was Prince of Wales and the costumes were coming into fashion, he became too thick from the weight of his vest, so he stopped stuck the lower stamp to make it more suitable for him.

Out of respect for him, the British Court ʹ and likely everyone else in England and the British colonies stopped blocking their lower jacket stamps.

Edward VII, on the right, with Prince George on the left (1901). Edward's last vest is unbroken.

“British fashion historians, however, consider it factual, although it may have been a little confusing over the years.

The truth is, Edward VII established the trend for the removal of the waistbar and costume jackets but for two different reasons.

The costume jackets broken down at the bottom because they replaced the jackets worn by the riders

The story of “Theology Edwardie” is told by Sir Hardy Amies, an English fashion designer who was the official dresser of Queen Elizabeth II for nearly four decades between her climb to the throne in 1952 and retirement in 1989.

His fashion house is in Sevilie Row, a famous London place for her personal men's suits, so Sir Amies knows one or two things about serious costumes and fashions.

Duke of Roxburghe in Buckingham Palace in 1910, following the death of King Edward V 2 / 1 The end of his suit is incomplete.

The vests are uncopyed because Edward was stupid

According to Oxford National Biography Dictionary, Edward V II had a legal appetite.

It ate a full breakfast meal, lunch, tea, dinner (usually 12 food items) and late evening food”, the dictionary quoted. He drank in the medium, but he usually consumed twelve large cigars and twenty cigarettes a day”.

In a discussion following Amies' lecture, a member of society asked him about their vests and why their lower stamps (as well as jackets) should be left untraceable. Amies said tradition is attributed to Edward.

“Edward VII always left the lower coat of the vest open because it was overweight”, Amies replied. He found this more comfortable and everyone copied it. The vests are now designed to make the last low stamp not button”.

Sir Hardy Amies, designer of Queen Elizabeth II, on his 90th birthday in 1999.

Oxford dictionary notes that the trend “was followed by Britain and the emperor, but not on the continent or in the US”. Nowadays, however, the opening of the lower waistcoat has become the norm.

Modern - day costume jackets usually have two stamps

Three - stamp jackets are quite common, but in the past 40 years, costumes tend to have two - stamp jackets.

You'll see just two stamps in some of the most fashionable suits, like J. Crew Ludlow. On that occasion, follow Edward's advice by leaving the lower smoldering stamp, but seize the first high stamp.

For Amies, however, the ideal suit was in the 1980 ' s, when all three stamps were still in fashion.

The more I look at the three-floped suit correctly, the top stamp remains unbroken with a unstable air, the non-bound lower button, attributing to the shapes of the riders. The procedures there are good”, he said. /Klan Kosova/