Why do so few women's tailored jackets have double vents?
As I step into the world of women's tailoring, I find more interesting aspects about it all the time. Namely, the common differences between it and men's tailoring. Cordings offers one of the few women's brass-buttoned, single breasted navy blazers I've seen with double vents. One of the accepted style choices in womenswear is notch lapels with a double breasted jacket, which to me simply looks wrong regardless of the body shape of the wearer. Peak lapels balance better with the wrap of a double breasted jacket. But what I see the least of is something I took for granted in men's suits since the late 2000s (around the time I started this blog): double vents. To me, this Theory suit looks wrong no matter what. Once in a while I'll see double vents on a women's double breasted jacket, as that was traditionally what was used by Savile Row tailors since it harmonizes better with the increased number of buttons. But even that is a rarity. Single vents seem to rul...
