Five Button, Six Button, and Edwardian Style Waistcoats?

[DWFII]

I much prefer a four-in-hand framed by a high gorge waistcoat than the look of a similar tie with a low cut vest.

I can't decide whether the latter looks like some mutant flat worm draped around the neck...or a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey gone tragically wrong.

[Bugbear]

I much prefer a four-in-hand framed by a high gorge waistcoat than the look of a similar tie with a low cut vest.

I can't decide whether the latter looks like some mutant flat worm draped around the neck...or a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey gone tragically wrong.

DWFII, if you mean low cut as in three button evening waistcoat, then I agree.

I think where I would use the high gorge waistcoat is with a jabot.

[Mark Keeney]

This is a pattern for a high vest.
vest pattern
It could be cut higher to go with a kilt.