Editing Blazer (section)

==Wear==
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[[File:Old Ardinian Blazer.jpg|thumb|right|250px|1919 striped old boy blazer of former [[Ardingly College]] pupils in school colors with embroidered pelican and "O.A" meaning "Old Ardinian"]]

Blazers are worn with a wide variety of clothes, ranging from a [[dress shirt]] and [[necktie]] to an open-necked polo shirt, or even just a plain [[t-shirt]]. They are seen with trousers of all colours and fabrics, from the classic white cotton or [[linen]], to grey [[flannel]], to brown or beige [[chino cloth|chinos]], and also [[jeans]].

A fitted, classically cut, double-breasted navy blue blazer with navy-style buttons is a popular design and sometimes referred to as a "reefer" blazer. Particularly in North America and the UK, it is often used in [[business casual]] attire.

[[File:Cambridge-half-blue-blazer.jpg|thumb|right|A [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] Rifle Association [[blue (university sport)|half-blue]] blazer|199x199px]]
Blazers, in a wide range of colours, are worn as part of [[school uniform]]s by many schools across the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]], and are still daily wear for most uniformed pupils in Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. These are blazers in the traditional sense: single-breasted, and often of bright colours or with [[Piping (sewing)|piping]]. This style is also worn by some boat clubs, such as those in [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]] or [[Oxford University|Oxford]], with the piped version used only on special occasions such as a boat club dinner. In this case, the piping is in [[Oxbridge scarf colours|college colours]], and college buttons are worn. This traditional style can be seen in many feature films set in the [[Edwardian era]], such as ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]''.

[[File:SRWaugh.png|thumb|Australian cricketer [[Steve Waugh]] wearing [[baggy green]] [[cricket cap]] and striped, college-style blazer in Australia's national colours]]

Where the blazer is part of the dress of a school, college, sports club, or armed service regimental association (veterans' organization), it is normal for a badge to be sewn to the breast pocket. In schools, this badge may vary according to the pupil's standing in the school: being a member of the junior or senior school, being a [[prefect]], or having been awarded colours in recognition of particular achievement in some academic or sporting field. In the Commonwealth, many regimental associations wear "regimental blazers" which also sport a similar badge on the breast pocket, usually in the form of a wire badge, and sometimes also regimental blazer buttons.

In the [[British Army]], officers do not normally wear badges on their blazers (or boating jackets). Two regimental blazers will rarely be the same, as they are sourced from different civilian suppliers and are not issued by any authority. This results from the fact that the members of the association are no longer serving personnel, but civilians, though still retaining the bond that the badge represents. The standard colour is navy blue, although in some associations different colours are worn, such as [[rifle green]] for the associations of rifle regiments.

[[file:Oxford-half-blue-blazer.jpg |thumb|right|250px| [[Oxford University]] Rifle Club Half Blue blazer and tie]]

Blazers, once commonly worn playing or attending traditional "gentlemen's sports", persist in only some games now, such as occasional use by tennis players, or in cricket, where in professional matches, such as international test matches, it is considered customary for the captain to wear a blazer with the team's logo or national coat of arms on the breast pocket—at least during the coin toss at the beginning of the match.

Two sporting events where blazers signify victory are the [[Congressional Cup|Congressional Cup Regatta]], at the [[Long Beach Yacht Club, California]], and the [[Masters Tournament|Masters golf tournament]], held in [[Augusta, Georgia|Augusta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. The former event awards a crimson blazer to the  winner of the regatta, while the latter awards a green blazer to the winner of the Masters.