Don’t get me started about jacket vents! I’m sick of ‘em! When not on horseback, the single vent is not entirely ideal. When seated more conventionally in a chair, the spreading vent produces a gap which some find unattractive. The single vented jacket also bunches awkwardly to one side when you try and retrieve your keys or money clip. I mean, what’s up with that? MORE...
Oh, yeah. I have not forgotten the ventless jacket. This definitive example of form over function is, at its soul, an Italian fixation. Ever seeking the perfect unobstructed line, Italian tailors embrace the ventless jacket. It is smooth, elegant, uncluttered. Can’t actually sit down or bend over to retrieve your pen? Irrelevant. I have owned several jackets without vents and I have to say that, except for a lone Nino Cerutti, for me it just doesn’t work. It’s totally pointless!