A Byblos suit with a long three-button jacket comes in raspberry pink, teal blue, plum or gray.

This time, it got the clothes right - flat front trousers and the Hermes-style three-button double-vented jacket he loved.

Most of the new three-button jackets will be treated as sportswear items, Mr. Rizzo said.

These straight-cut three-button jackets, with their schoolboy air, look new and slightly retro as well.

The man in a three-button jacket doesn't look as aware as the competitive guys who've lost a button.

They go nicely under the new three-button jackets, which have a higher buttoning stance, where they appear to be conventional knotted neckwear.

A second suit, in dark blue wool with wide chalk stripes and a three-button jacket, had a kind of swinging banker's look.

There is also a new rounded-notch collar and a three-button jacket with a more fitted shape.

"Which buttons do you button on a three-button jacket?"

"When I see people with a three-button jacket and jeans, it looks like a compromise," he said.