Width of the Brim/lapel

[Mr Maltby]

After reading some info on the brims, it made me curious. Does your brim preference pan out? Do your Lapels on your suit reflect your desire for the wide or narrow look? For example, I wear my brims at 1 1/2 inches. I like my lapels on my suits to be just as narrow, 1-2 inches, I like the balance. What about you guys?

 

[Benny Holiday]

Call me a dunce, but it's never actually occurred to me before that the width of hat brims narrowed corresponding to the width of suit coat lapels and the narrower cut of suits and trousers through the 1950's. I guess I noticed it on a subconscious level, but the balance never leaped out at me in a conspicuous way.

So yes Mr Maltby, I wear hats with 2.5 inch brims with wider 1940's-style lapels on my suit coats. Thanks for bringing to my attention the fact that I'm correctly balanced! (At least in one area of my life!) lol

 

[The Wingnut]

Ideal in my world would be 2/3 between the shoulder and the inside of the lapel. Not overly wide, but not at all narrow.

My green suit is my ideal for a DB, I unfortunately don't have any single-breasted suits that I'm all that happy with.

 

[Mr Maltby]

wingnut, THAT is sharp. All class, pal.

 

[Benny Holiday]

Yeah, there's that green suit again. Wingnut, ideal is definitely the word I'd use to describe that DB, too. What a look! :eusa_clap

 

[Gray Ghost]

Real Sharp

Ideal in my world would be 2/3 between the shoulder and the inside of the lapel. Not overly wide, but not at all narrow.

My green suit is my ideal for a DB, I unfortunately don't have any single-breasted suits that I'm all that happy with.

Real sharp Wingnut. That is the look that I want to achieve.

Gray Ghost