Here Is To English Men

Button down jacket, long waistcoat, cute buttons, love at first sight, dipped in tradition, I could describe this jacket in ways more than one. 

As far as a waistcoat's history is concerned, it seems to be one of the few articles of clothing whose time of origins can be ascertained: the year 1666 by  King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.

English writer John Evelyn wrote on October 18, 1666: "To Court, it being the first time his Majesty put himself solemnly into the Eastern fashion of vest changing doublet, stiff collar, bands and cloak, into a comely dress after the Persian mode, with girdles or straps, and shoestrings and garters into buckles...resolving never to alter it, and to leave the French mode". 

Also, a custom still sometimes practiced is to leave the bottom button undone. This is said to have been started by King Edward VII (then the Prince of Wales), whose expanding waistline required it!

A regular waistcoat has gone many transformations. In fact the purists won't even call this a waistcoat for all the right reasons. But there is something waistcoatish about it. 

So have you tried this borrowed from men trend yet?