"The advantage of the blaze is you can dress it up or you can down," said Sunder Daswani, president and founder of Elegant Rochees Hong Kong Tailors, a Virginia-based store that sells custom-tailored blazers around the nation.

"You can wear it with jeans, you can wear it with dress pants, you can wear it with a button-down shirt, with or without a tie," he said. "You can ever wear it with a bow tie."

........Daswani recommends men of average height and weight look for two-or-three button blazers. "Two is for people who are conservative and three for people who like the latest style," he said.

Stockier guys should stick to slimming single-breasted versions, Daswani said. He added that a person with a slight belly should opt for two buttons. "If he takes three buttons, the third button may not flat on the chest, "he said.