Five Button, Six Button, and Edwardian Style Waistcoats?

[Bugbear]

Thanks.

[fluter]

I was thinking that there was a convention with 6 buttons, of leaving the bottom button unbuttoned. If the vest is long, this might make it lie better while seated. Proceeding to rummage through my closet, I find mostly 5 buttons per vest.

The oldest in my possesion, from a circa-1970 suit, has 6 buttons---and the lowest is completely non-functional, being on the tapered edge near the point, and having no corresponding button-hole! If i'd ever noticed this before, I certainly had forgotten.

[Bugbear]

Um... As far as I know, the bottom button of any waistcoat is supposed to be worn unbuttoned whether it is funtional or not.

I just cropped back a waistcoat for use with a kilt, and it ended up with four buttons; they were a little further apart than most. I'm not going to worry about it.

I'm still thinking that a jabot would work well with waistcoats having a high neck line. However, I don't know if the notched lapel style would cause problems with the hang of the jabot.

[-B-]

This my help i am going at some point get a double breast vest for semi formal wear.

http://www.riverjunction.com/catalog...vestindex.html

[attworth]

Personally, for me, the higher the neck line the better.

Sadly this is the first thing that comes to mind.

[Bugbear]

I've been making a set of patterns that have interchangeable features, so I can make my own waistcoats... Just swap out the neck line or the hem line and it's a pattern for a different style that goes on the same back.