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kaberettSpoilers for the first episode of season 2!
Sherlock always wears his suit jackets properly - bottom button undone, all buttons undone when seated. Mycroft does not - bottom button usually/frequently done up. However, Sherlock doesn't wear his waistcoat similarly appropriately; I'm beginning to develop headcanon that this is something he does deliberately to annoy precisely the kind of person who'll notice.
Sherlock, Mycroft and other upper-class Brits wear two-button jackets. Their bodyguards and other people not of the British upper class typically wear three-button jackets, with all buttons done up. (Sherlock wears jacket+waistcoat in the first ep of s2 - when he's in London - but I don't recall seeing him doing so in other contexts. Deliberate class marker/armour? Entirely possible he's dressing up [in contradistinction to "dressing down", rather than the other meaning] given having left Scotland Yard "in disgrace". Hmm.)
I hadn't even registered that I was reading class out of this on first (or even second!) watch-through, but I definitely definitely was. It's just... really quietly and subtly and understatedly done right, no attention drawn to it, and I'm proper impressed by the wardrobe department right now.
... give or take the waistcoat thing. But, hey, see headcanon. I'm contemplating writing the ficlet. ;)
(For, er, probably the majority of my readership that nerds about male-coded formalwear less than I do: the thing about leaving the bottom button undone is reputed to have begun because of a British monarch.)
Sherlock always wears his suit jackets properly - bottom button undone, all buttons undone when seated. Mycroft does not - bottom button usually/frequently done up. However, Sherlock doesn't wear his waistcoat similarly appropriately; I'm beginning to develop headcanon that this is something he does deliberately to annoy precisely the kind of person who'll notice.
Sherlock, Mycroft and other upper-class Brits wear two-button jackets. Their bodyguards and other people not of the British upper class typically wear three-button jackets, with all buttons done up. (Sherlock wears jacket+waistcoat in the first ep of s2 - when he's in London - but I don't recall seeing him doing so in other contexts. Deliberate class marker/armour? Entirely possible he's dressing up [in contradistinction to "dressing down", rather than the other meaning] given having left Scotland Yard "in disgrace". Hmm.)
I hadn't even registered that I was reading class out of this on first (or even second!) watch-through, but I definitely definitely was. It's just... really quietly and subtly and understatedly done right, no attention drawn to it, and I'm proper impressed by the wardrobe department right now.
... give or take the waistcoat thing. But, hey, see headcanon. I'm contemplating writing the ficlet. ;)
(For, er, probably the majority of my readership that nerds about male-coded formalwear less than I do: the thing about leaving the bottom button undone is reputed to have begun because of a British monarch.)
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Date: 2014-07-31 03:40 pm (UTC)