Uncouth? Hardly. Do sea captains look uncouth? Buttons of a brass or golden hue are traditional with blazers, and they are perfectly acceptable. But American men tend to consider the blazer more ...

Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In a recent interview, Olivier Rousteing, Balmain’s king of the double-breasted, big-shouldered, low-buttoning, ...