Smooth Jazz

By Izzy

You don’t see many velvet smoking jackets in public, but jazz legend Oscar Peterson, who recently passed, used one to demonstrate his cool even away from the piano.

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 at 5:35 am by Izzy and is filed under Celebrity, Formal Wear, Suits. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Smooth Jazz”

ktel Says:
January 19th, 2008 at 12:06 am
There is a reason for this. The smoking jacket is traditionally kept on a rack in the (you guessed it) smoking room, its purpose being to absorb the tobacco odours and contain them in that room. This is the reason for velvet being the classic material. The velvet dinner jacket, such as that worn by the late great Mr. Peterson, is held by many to be a trifle racy, while the velvet blazer is seen as perhaps a bit foppish.