Professional and businessmen wore single- or double-breasted, three-piece-piece lounge suits during the day and other forms of casual dress took their place for informal wear. 

The tweed sports jacket (adapted from the riding or hacking jacket) or the blazer (originally worn for yachting or by the sea) with flannel trousers was usual in the country and at weekends; golfing clothes (a rough tweed knickerbockers suit and knitted pullover) were also taken up for ordinary wear.