About Augusta National Masters Gold Tournament Green Jacket

http://www.augusta.com/masters/history/ohio-firm-fashions-green-jackets-from-georgia-cloth

It's the classic three-button style, single-breasted and center-vented.
Made of tropical-weight wool (about 2 1/2 yards per jacket) from Forstmann Co. mill in Dublin, Ga.
That brilliant rye green: Pantone 342.
Estimated cost to make: $250. (Although no club spokesperson will confirm this publicly.)
Made exclusively since 1967 by Hamilton Tailoring Co. of Cincinnati.
Logo-stamped brass buttons made by Waterbury Button Co. of Cheshire, CT. Breast-pocket patch made by A&B Emblem Co. in Weaverville, N.C.
The owner's name is stitched on a label inside.
The winner doesn't keep the presentation jacket he wears on Sunday -- he's later given a custom-made version to keep.
Tournament officials watch as leaders emerge in the final round and try to have a few appropriate sizes on hand.
Sometimes they guess wrong. Jack Nicklaus was given a ridiculously big 46-long in 1963, which he said "looked like an overcoat." When Nicklaus came back a year later, the club still had not made a jacket that fit, so he borrowed one from former N.Y. governor Tom Dewey, a club member. Nicklaus eventually ordered one himself from Hart, Schaffner and Marx in 1972.
After a year, the winner must bring the jacket back to Augusta National and never wear it outside the club again. But there have been exceptions. Gary Player got into a heated exchange in 1961 with Cliff Roberts after he mistakenly left his jacket in South Africa.
Sam Snead was the first Masters champion to get a green jacket, in 1949, to make him an honorary member. It was then awarded to all past champions retroactively.
The original purpose of the green jacket, as envisioned by Cliff Roberts, was to identify club members as "reliable sources of information" to visiting non-members -- and to let waiters know who got the check at dinner.
Traditionally, last year's winner presents the jacket to the new champion at the tournament's end.

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