Let me help you with a little history cut and paste and some simple words.

If you are going to dress for the field during the day you should have the appropriate sport jacket. The sport jacket does not appear after sunset. If boats and the water are involved a blazer is the way to pack. The blazer can be very versatile. Oil Nut, Little Dix, Peter Island would all be place where a proper blazer may come in handy. If you want to bring a sport coat to hike during the day go ahead. We do not do that. During cool weather on visits outside of Atlanta or Savannah a sport coat would be packed.



"It was in the 19th century that the members of the Lady Margaret Boat Club – founded in 1825 - at Cambridge University’s St. John’s College adopted a gentlemanly sporting jacket with which to row in, in a vivid scarlet cloth to distinguish themselves as part of a team. Thanks to the bright shade, the term ‘blazer’ evolved; not quite a suit jacket, designed as a stand alone piece that can be worn to add a dash of formality. By the time the annual Henley Royal Regatta rolled around in 1839, lavish stripes as part of the uniform had become part of the blazer’s DNA, each team’s outfits designed to be easily distinguishable from one another."