[QUOTE=puffer;700179]IMHO, BUTTONS ARE a critical consideration, yet QUITE often over looked.

Here is my take

1. On TWEEDS = LEATHER covered, as McMurdo suggested. ( but I suggest make them removable for dry cleaning purposes )
Antler, Real is great, but a VERY GOOD faux antler, such as the ones Victoria provides (made by the Capt.) are VERY NICE
Wood is also a good type BUT make them "removable" (see below) Dry cleaning will destroy them.

2. On Dressier, such as Crails etc. = Subdued metal, such as Victoria suggested.
Matching cloth covered


Perhaps I have missed something over the last 60 odd years, But I have always thought the Crail, balmoral and argyll jackets,to name the three main styles of day jacket, was just a variation on the same theme, in other words none are "dressier" than the other. Since when did this new definition come about? Apart from tweed jackets with, say, antler buttons and Black barathea jackets with silver buttons being the difference in formality, of course.