According to The Oxford Dictionary a double Breasted jacket is a jacket having a substantial overlap of material at the front and showing two rows of buttons when fastened.

The double Breasted Jacket became hugely popular around the 1930's after the Wall Street Crash, made a comeback in the 1980's, The double-breasted jacket is considered to be ``the fashion silhouette'' for the early 1980's,. When the double-breasted jacket returned to popularity only young and daring would wear it. Junior executives, Not senior executives. That has changed. The jacket over the years has become widely popular . . .