How does an Argyll jacket look?

[jmercier]

I'm afraid I would have to send the jacket back from whence it came if there were not "working" buttonholes, regardless of whether I do up the jacket or not!

Now, false buttonholes on evening doublets are another matter.

I've seen quite a number of argyll jackets that just have the single button on the right and no hole on the left.

[Jock Scot]

I've seen quite a number of argyll jackets that just have the single button on the right and no hole on the left.

I think that is just appalling, it is nearly as bad as having no button hole in the left lapel of a day jacket. How any one can accept a jacket like that, is well beyond my ken.

[jmercier]

*shrug* every one of them was a jacket made in Scotland too. Two of them were from "the wallace collection, 100% scottish wool, made in the UK" (guess that doesn't necessarily mean made in Scotland) and the 3rd that i remember was a dark green argyll from house of edgar. I never thought anything of it, because i've never buttoned an argyll before.

[Jock Scot]

*shrug* every one of them was a jacket made in Scotland too. Two of them were from "the wallace collection, 100% scottish wool, made in the UK" (guess that doesn't necessarily mean made in Scotland) and the 3rd that i remember was a dark green argyll from house of edgar. I never thought anything of it, because i've never buttoned an argyll before.

I can make no excuse for shoddy workmanship and sharp sales practice from wherever in the world it comes from. At the very least, I would expect button holes!

[Howard Clark]

I like things to be what they appear to be. If it has buttons, it should have the corresponding holes for the buttons to go into.

"What you see is what you get", is the way I like my world to be.

That said, I do not button my jacket.