There are essentially two distinct jackets now called blazers, the original beginning as a jacket worn in boat clubs, for rowing, a brightly coloured, often striped single breasted jacket, with contrasting piping; essentially an early sports jacket. The other style commonly described as a blazer is a navy blue jacket, classically double breasted, which was originally called a reefer jacket, a name still used sometimes. Eventually, as the original blazer became less common, the term came to be applied to the naval version, which gained its modern metal buttons (originally these were black, accompanying a more military cut). It is now worn in its original form by some yachting clubs.Blazers!, a thread on the Ask Andy About Clothes forum

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