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The classic jacket for an Eton suit was modeled on the short black jacket worn by Eton schoolboys. The jacket ended just at the waist, much shorter than the jackets worn with oyher suit styles. Some Eton suits may have had grey jackets rather than the black jackets worn at Eton school. But by far the dominate style was black jackets. A true Eton suit has a short jacket. Many boys wore Eton collars with other jackets, but a true Eton suit has the destinctive short jacket. This means basically a jacket that was made to about waist level. We note some jackets that seem to be cut a little longer. Another feature is the lapels. We note photographs that show lapels on Eton and Harrrow school jackets. We not other photographs without lapels. We think both may be comsidered Eton jackets. Not very many other jackets were made without lapels with the exception of 19th century cut-away jackets. We see many other jacket types worn with Eton collars. Thet were not precisely Eton jackets, but have to be considered in our assessment. Actually this is a bit complicated because some jackets may have had some features of the classic Eton jacket.
The classic jacket for an Eton suit was modeled on the short black jacket worn by Eton schoolboys. The jacket ended just at the waist, much shorter than the jackets worn with oyher suit styles. Some Eton suits may have had grey jackets rather than the black jackets worn at Eton school. But by far the dominate style was black jackets. A true Eton suit has a short jacket. Many boys wore Eton collars with other jackets, but a true Eton suit has the destinctive short jacket. This means basically a jacket that was made to about waist level. We note some jackets that seem to be cut a little longer. Another feature is the lapels. We note photographs that show lapels on Eton and Harrrow school jackets. We not other photographs without lapels. We think both may be comsidered Eton jackets. Not very many other jackets were made without lapels with the exception of 19th century cut-away jackets.
We see many other jacket types worn with Eton collars. The Eton collar was so popular that in the late-19th nd early-20th century, just about every type of jacket was worn with Eton collars. Some may have been school uniform jackets, but this is difficult to tell jnless we have a group portrait. And other schools did not wear the same jacket the Eton boys wore. They were not precisely Eton jackets, but have to be considered in our assessment. Actually this is a bit complicated because some jackets may have had some features of the classic Eton jacket. The Eton collar is just a dominant style, that it rather gives the impression of an Eton suit, no matter what the type of jacket that is worn. Some may have even been called Eton jackets oe Eton suits. We see some jackets done with a varietyb of Eton jcket features. And we see other jacjets without any Eton features at all, only that pristine white Eton collar. with
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