Sherrifmuir Jacket

[M. A. C. Newsome]

My Sheriffmuir is charcoal tweed, which definitely helps me to dress it down if I want to. I think it would be a bit more difficult to successfully dress it down if it were black, especially if it had bright chrome buttons. A navy doublet might be dressed down more easily.

This is about as dressed down as I have worn my Sheriffmuir.

[Father Bill]

. . . perhaps I'm being unfair to give the impression I would wear that for daywear. I also have a grey tweed crail for that purpose.

[rondo]

What about bottle green, burgundy or another color?
Rondo

[KD Burke]

Other colors work!



Not sure how I'd go about about dressing it down further though.

[CMcG]

What about bottle green, burgundy or another color?
Rondo

Other colours could work too, but I think the choice of material is more important if your goal is to have a doublet that could be worn as day wear. Barathea is a formal fabric, as is velvet, and these are the materials Sheriffmuir's seem to be commonly available in. A bespoke doublet might be the only way to break that mould.

Matt's tweed Sheriffmuir is a good example of a less formal fabric increasing the versatility of the doublet, but you might also consider something like a fine corduroy. The caveat here is that by dropping the formality of the cloth down, it would no longer be the best choice for the most formal of formal occasions i.e. white tie. It should still be ok for black tie, which is what matters in this case, according to the OP. IMHO, swappable buttons would still help with the transitions between more and less formal.

[rondo]

Just to clarify some:
-I want a coat that can go up to black tie level
-that can also be worn during daytime [formal] events
-I will never see a white tie affair
-and I don't care for the Argyle
A tall order, I know, but something tell me the Sherrifmuir will do it.
Thanks for all the kind replies.
Rondo
P.S. For those that followed my experiment last year with the mandarin styled jacket in brown/olive corduroy it is working out well but the satin facings do provide too much contrast to the corduroy. I still like the cut and if push comes to shove I may still have a formal jacket made in that style.

[SlackerDrummer]

It's a little bit like asking how "dressed down" a tuxedo can go. You can wear it with blue jeans to the county fair if you like, but it probably wouldn't be appropriate.

[cable scot]

Rondo,

I got mine from Rocky, maybe his people could give you more fabric/color options. I wear mine with a colored cravat for black tie, I couldn't do a jabot and cuffs and cravats can be tied in all sorts of ways.