Jacket Measurements

[HarborSpringsPiper]

I just measured and indeed it is 2 - 2 1/2 inches from navel to bottom button on both of my jackets.

Jock, until I looked at your jacket I never took notice that some Argyll jackets have two buttons and some have one. Both my tweed, maded in Scotland decades ago and a navy Braemar I purchased new within the last ten years from Higgins, made in the USA, have two buttons. I cruised different Highland wear purveyors on the web and see that depending on the seller, either or both styles are displayed.

[Jock Scot]

I just measured and indeed it is 2 - 2 1/2 inches from navel to bottom button on both of my jackets. Jock, until I looked at your jacket I never took notice that some Argyll jackets have two buttons and some have one. Both my tweed, maded in Scotland decades ago and a navy Braemar I purchased new within the last ten years from Higgins, made in the USA, have two buttons. I cruised different Highland wear purveyors on the web and see that depending on the seller, either or both styles are displayed.

By me saying "this part of the World" I did not mean the UK,I actually meant a narrower area than that. The west Highlands of Scotland!Sadly we have no local tailors any more, the last, local to me died a few years ago. There is a place in Inveraray,which is a fair way from me that looks like a possible though.Yes Chris(Redshank)I really will visit one of these days! Back to buttons!It was usually assumed two buttons was a Southern and Eastern Scots thing and a single button was a Western Highlands fashion. I am never too sure that was really true but funnily enough all my argyll jackets have one button and OK, they were all bespoke,but I do not recall ever discussing how many buttons to have at the front of the jacket, so I had what I was given!Of course these days,with the world wide commercial environment we live in today, regional fashion quirks no longer exist,which is a shame.