Double-breasted

 Double-breasted - cut of the garment with two vertical rows of buttons designed for fastening to either side. Often one of the series is only a decorative function. It is mainly used in the manufacture of jackets, jackets and coats. In the jackets are usually two or three buttons in each row and fasten it can in many ways. Can be closed once all that will give a figure of rigor, or one only the top button, highlighting the waist. We jackets with one decorative row of buttons fastened inside the floor using jigger (countersunk buttons). Style double-breasted jacket appeared in 1837 in the British Army, becoming the top of the ceremonial dress of higher naval ranks. For this reason it is called in books on fashion history as "the classic naval jacket." Is a military uniform appeared in the twenties of the last century, but only gained real popularity in the seventies.