Size Guide
| Size |
|---|
Body Measurement: Men Jacket
| SIZE | CHEST (IN) |
|---|---|
| XS | 37 - 38 |
| S | 39 - 40 |
| M | 41 - 42 |
| L | 43 - 44 |
| XL | 45 - 46 |
| XXL | 47 - 48 |
| XXXL | 49 - 50 |
Two inside as well
One on each side rather than both crammed into the left, so a phone and a wallet balance out instead of pulling the whole front off centre. My last coat hung crooked within two months for exactly that reason and never really came back.
Sat through a long dinner
Hung over the back of a chair for three hours in a restaurant and came off it hanging straight, with no fold across the middle and nothing pressed into the shoulders where the chair back was. That is a small thing that a badly made coat gets wrong every single time and it tells you the cloth was cut on grain properly.
Lapel cut narrow
Good coat and it gets a great deal of wear, so this is a note rather than a grievance. The notch is cut fairly narrow, so against a suit with a wide lapel underneath the proportions look slightly off and the coat reads as the lighter of the two. With a plain jumper it is perfect. With a broad shouldered suit it is a little modest.
Here inside four days
Ordered on the Monday and it arrived on the Thursday, flat in a box with card at the shoulders so nothing had been folded into the wrong place. It went onto a hanger and was ready to wear the same evening with no steaming needed.
Slides over a jacket
The lining is smooth enough that a suit sleeve goes through without dragging up and gathering at the elbow. No papery noise when you move eiher, and it is stitched into the hem rather than tacked on at the corners.
Front stays clean
The outside pockets are cut as welts rather than sewn on as patches, so there is nothing sitting proud of the cloth anywhere and the whole front reads as one flat panel. It also means nothing catches when you brush past a doorway, which sounds trivial until you have snagged a patch pocket on a handle.
Nothing to close the throat
Well made and I am keeping it. There is no tab or latch to bring the lapels across the neck, so in a real wind the front opens at the top and you are relying on a scarf. Most coats at this length have some sort of catch up there. It is the only feature I have actually missed since buying it.
Walks into wind well
There is enough weight in the cloth that it stays against you rather than filling up like a sail, and it is distributed properly so you are not fighting it across the front on an exposed stretch. My last long coat behaved like a parachute and I had stopped wearing it by January.
Nothing peeks over the collar
A blazer collar underneath sits completely inside this one rather than showing as a strip above the back of the neck, which is the giveaway that a coat is cut too shallow at the top. Whoever drafted the neckline actually measured a jacket first.
Second winter, no change
Bought last autumn and worn four or five days a week right through the season. Out for a secound winter with no bagging at the elbows, no fraying at the pocket mouths, no thinning where a bag sits and the lapel still rolls exactly as it did. The cloth has softened very slightly, which I count as a gain rather than as wear on it.
Black has stayed black
Worn hard through a full winter and hung in a bright hallway all summer, and the shoulders are still the same depth as the hem. Black on a cheaper coat turns a dusty grey across the top within a season and there is definately no sign of that starting anywhere on this one.
Half hour outside
Half an hour on an open platform over a shirt and a jumper and I was comfortable the whole time. I was suprised, given how light it feels in the hand.
Sizing guide was right
Ordered on the chest measurement rather than what I usually take and it came first time with room for a jacket underneath. Nothing went back and nothing needed altering, which given how often coats bought online go the other way is worth counting.
Over an arm without creasing
Carried it folded over an arm through an airport and then into a meeting straight off the flight, and it went back on with nothing across it that needed explaining. Most wool at this weight comes out of that treatment with two sharp lines in the back that stay all day. It has not done that once.
Gapes below the last button
Really pleased with it and it gets worn daily. The bottom button is a good way up from the hem, so when you walk quickly the front opens below it and swings, which lets cold air across the legs. Standing still it hangs perfectly. It is how a single breasted coat works at this length rather than a defect, but it is worth knowing.
Second button is the one
Done up to the second and left open above it, the lapel falls exactly where it should and the whole thing sits properly on the shoulders. Fastened all the way it goes stiff and formal. Getting that right is entirely down to where the buttons were placed and somebody clearly thought about it rather than spacing them evenly and hoping.
Buttonhole takes a pin
There is a real buttonhole in the lapel rather than a stitched imitation, so a poppy or a boutonniere actually goes through it and sits flat instead of pinning on at an angle.
Better than the dearer one
My previous coat cost close to three times this and went at the pocket corners inside two winters, with both mouths fraying and the lining pulling away. Nothing similar has started here after a full season of daily wear, and the pocket bags feel a good deal more substantial than the ones on the coat I paid more for.
Lapel holds its roll
The notch is properly constructed rather than pressed flat, so it curves away from the chest and stays curved instead of collapsing after a week. That is the difference between a coat that looks tailored and one that looks like a shape cut out of cloth, and it is why this reads as dearer than it was.
Hem clears the wet
It clears the top of the boot by a decent margin, so walking a wet pavement it does not pick up a line of road grime along the bottom edge the way my previous one did every winter. Two seasons and the hem is as clean as the day it arrived, which after the last coat I owned was a genuine relief.
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