Pocket Square in Overcoat Pocket: Have you, would you, should you?

[Thruth]

Came across these Apparel Arts drawings and wondered, does anyone wear a pocket square in their overcoat breast pocket? Or would you? Or should you? Does it seem affected to add a square.

I have included some contemporary photos as well as the alternative iGent affectation of using gloves in a breast pocket instead of a square.

So, should the breast pocket of the overcoat be free and clear of a square?

Contemporary photos

Gloves

 

[Russell Street]

Somthing that can pass as a functional handkerchief is okay. Straight fold or some other unaffected thing. But really, it's about as bad as the twats trying to wear vests sans coats with pocket squares.
My dressiest overcoat has the flapped chest pocket due to tailoring confusion...

This glove stuff, again if it looks natural and not poncy, maybe.

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Grand Potentate]

Man, He's getting old.

 

[Jan Libourel]

I love pocket squares--I've got about a hundred of them--but putting one in an overcoat pocket seems like a bit too much, even for me.

 

[prince nez]

So, should the breast pocket of the overcoat be free and clear of a square?

Let me answer this as directly and succinctly as possible:

 

[Thruth]

/thread

 

[Thruth]

I love pocket squares--I've got about a hundred of them--but putting one in an overcoat pocket seems like a bit too much, even for me.

I have never done it and despite the historical provenance I doubt i will. It is a rare event even in the Apparel Arts drawings. I think it can and does look good. Maybe I'll try it just to see what kind of stares I get.

 

[Dropbear]

I'd say it works if you are wearing the coat in lieu of a jacket. If there is a jacket under the coat, the PS should be in that pocket.

 

[Thruth]

Why did he cop out and not wear the bright blue db blazer with that, now that would've looked good.

I think that pic is from Pitti before last and prior to the blue blazer

 

[Russell Street]

Oh yeah, I have an internal glove pocket, so I can look lumpy without the flash.

Having your hand thrust in a pocket while gloves are daintily peeking from another pocket seems wrong.

 

[Grand Potentate]

I'd say it works if you are wearing the coat in lieu of a jacket. If there is a jacket under the coat, the PS should be in that pocket.

Then the counter argument would be that you couldn't see the pocket square under the overcoat.

 

[Russell Street]

Obviously the correct thing to do is to carry it around in one hand like an old widow.

 

[Thruth]

Man, He's getting old.

Is that Get Smart?

 

[Thruth]

Wouldn't the simplist answer be if your overcoat has a pocket then the option exists for using a pochette just as one would with an odd/suit jacket?

I suppose it all comes down to how each of us perceive how dandified or over-the-top it would be.

In my little world I rarely see a pocket square used at all except by one of my colleagues and the guy looking back at me on the other side of the mirror

In NYC, no one would even blink

 

[Thruth]

On the other hand, the gloves in the pocket = tres fey to me

 

[Dropbear]

Then the counter argument would be that you couldn't see the pocket square under the overcoat.

Or that you couldn't access it fast enough during a snot crisis.

 

[Thruth]

A proper iGent employs the Ukrainian handkerchief technique. Place thumb on one nostril and blow through the other. Repeat on the contralateral side

 

[Grand Potentate]

Is that Get Smart?

Yep

 

[Thruth]

Where does the snot go with this technique?

If you bend correctly, not on oneself

 

[Dropbear]

Where does the snot go with this technique?

On the nearest peasant.

 

[LKP]

storing gloves while i dont wear them because thr other pockets are full of stuff - ok

pocket square - no fucking way