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 |
Patch pockets take a hand
The two on the front are patch pockets set low enough that a whole hand goes in, not just fingertips. They are lined and they are deep, so on a cold platform they do the job gloves normally would and I have stopped carrying gloves at all on the shorter days out.
Goes under a heavier coat
On the coldest mornings it goes under a long overcoat and there is no bunching at the shoulder or the sleeve. It works as a middle layer far better than a jumper does.
Nothing to press
No lapels and no roll to keep, so it comes out of a wardrobe ready to wear. Shake it once and it is done. My coats all need twenty minutes of attention first, which sounds trivial until you are late and reaching for something on a hook.
Shoulders take a knit
Ordered my usual chest size half expecting it to be tight over a jumper and there is room to spare through the shoulder and the upper arm. A proper cable knit goes underneath and the buttons still close without anything straining across the front. Nothing pulls when I reach forward either, which is where most jackets give themselves away.
Cleaned without drama
Took it in at the end of the season on the label's advice, half expecting the usual lecture about wool blends. It came back with no shrinkage at all, the shade completely unchanged and every button still on. Straight into a cover for the summer and it has come out looking exactly as it went in, which is more than I can say for a dearer coat I own.
Nothing bunches driving
Sleeves do not ride up when your hands are on the wheel and there is no fabric gathering at the belt. Getting in and out of a car in it is a non event, which I cannot say for my long coat.
Nothing left to change
Two seasons in and there is nothing I would change beyond wishing for a second inside pocket. It fits, it is warm for what it weighs, it goes over a jumper and under a coat, and it has not sagged or bagged anywhere. If it wore out tomorrow I would order an identical one without looking at anything else.
Cheaper than an overshirt
I looked at wool overshirts from two designer labels at nearly three times this and I still cannot identify what the extra money would have bought. The cloth has body, the lining is properly sewn in, the buttons are shanked and the cut is right. If there is a difference I have not managed to find it in three months of daily wear, and I was looking for one.
Reach your back pocket
Sounds like nothing until you have spent a winter in something long. Wallet, keys, phone in a back pocket, all reachable without lifting a hem out of the way first. Small thing that I notice every single day, and it is definately why this gets picked up more often than anything else on the hook.
One inside pocket only
No complaint about the make, it is a properly built thing. There is a single inside pocket and it is on one side only, so once you put a phone and a wallet in it the whole front hangs off centre and you keep tugging it straight. A matching one on the other side would have cost nothing to add. I have taken to carrying less, which is probably no bad thing.
Grey against everything
Half my wardrobe is dark and the other half is not, and this has not fought with any of it. Black jeans, blue denim, olive trousers, a cream jumper, brown boots. It is the least demanding thing I own and it is the one I reach for without thinking, which is worth a great deal more than owning something more interesting that only works with two other things.
People ask about it
I have been asked where it came from three times since November, twice by people who own considerably more expensive outerwear than I do. It does not look like a bargain.
Wind does not get through
Done up on an open platform with nothing but a shirt underneath and it held. Dense cloth rather than thick cloth, so it blocks air withuot making you look twice your size.
Tidy where it counts
Turned it inside out before wearing it, which I always do. Bound seams, the lining sewn in at the hem, no threads hanging anywhere. That is the first place a cheap one gives itself away, and I have sent things back for a good deal less than what I was expecting to find in here.
Five buttons sit right
The spacing is judged well. The top one lands high on the chest and the bottom one sits at the hem, so it closes evenly all the way down instead of gaping in the middle the way a four button front tends to. Done up it is windproof across the body, and that even spread does the work.
Collar worn open
The shirt collar means you can leave the whole thing open over a crew neck and it still looks deliberate rather than like you forgot to do it up. A notch lapel would have made it a smarter piece than I wanted. This is the casual end and it stays there, which is the reason I picked it over the other things in the same price bracket.
He stopped browsing
He had been circling jackets online since last winter and never committing to anything. I ordered this off the measurements of what he already owns and hung it on the back of the door. It fit first time and he has worn it almost every day since, and the browsing has stopped, which I am choosing to read as approval.
Weekend and the office
I have worn it over a shirt and chinos on a Wednesday and over a hoodie on a Saturday and it has looked right for both without me having to think about it. That is a narrow gap and most things miss it in one direction or the other. It reads as considered rather than scruffy in the first case and it does not look like I am overdressed in the second.
Wool at this money
I priced up wool overshirts before ordering and most of what I found at this figure was polyester pretending. This is a real wool blend with proper body to it.
Slides over a shirt
The polyester lining is smooth enough that it goes on over a shirt without dragging the sleeve up your arm with it. It does not make that papery noise cheap linings make when you move, and it is stitched in at the hem rather than tacked on, which is where the cheap ones start coming apart after a season.
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