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 |
Chart was accurate
Measured the chest, ordered accordingly, and it needed nothing. Close through the body without pulling at the buttons and the sleeves finishing right at the wrist. For something bought without trying it on that is more luck than I usually manage.
Feels more expensive
Nobody has guessed anywhere near the price, which suprised me. It is the weight of the cloth and the fact that the finishing inside is neat, with bound seams and the lining stitched rather than tacked at the hem. That is where cheap jackets show themselves and this one does not.
Collar lies flat
The shirt collar sits flat against the neck rather than standing up or curling at the points, and it has stayed that way after a season of wear and hanging. That is where cheap wool jackets give themselves away almost immediately.
Cuffs will not roll
Good jacket and I wear it constantly. The cuff button sits low enough that you cannot roll the sleeve back neatly, it just bunches. If you like pushing your sleeves up indoors, this will annoy you the way it annoys me. Everything else about it is right. It is a small thing and it is the only one I have found.
Photos undersell the colour
The listing photos flatten it and make the colour look flat. In the hand the wool has a real texture to it and the shade has genuine depth. It is a far better looking thing than any of the images on the listing manage to suggest, and the colour in particular is nothing like as flat as it appears.
Straight onto a hanger
Sleeves at the wrist, shoulders in the right place, body length as pictured. It went from the box onto a hanger and has not been near a tailor. It has not been near a tailor. For something ordered without trying it on that is more luck than I usually manage to have.
Busy under a scarf
Really pleased with the jacket. The four buttons are set close together, so with a scarf over the top the front becomes quite a lot of detail in a small space and it looks cluttered in photographs. Without a scarf it is clean. Entirely a styling thing rather than a fault. Without one the front is completely clean and that is how I wear it now.
Shirt collar keeps it casual
The plain shirt collar is what stops it looking like a blazer, and that is definately the point of it for me. Over a jumper or a tee it works, and it does not read as if you have come from an office. It is the most relaxed thing I own that still looks considered. That is a harder balance to strike than it sounds and it manages it.
Reach for it every day
It has quietly become the thing I put on without thinking about it, which is the highest compliment I can pay a piece of clothing. Nothing else comes close to it. It has quietly replaced three other things that are now sitting unworn in the wardrobe.
Here by Friday
Ordered Tuesday evening, here Friday morning. Folded in tissue inside a garment bag with nothing crushed. It came folded in tissue inside a proper garment bag with nothing at all crushed on the way. Tracking updated honestly the whole way through as well.
Not a blazer replacement
Worth saying plainly so nobody is disappointed. The shirt collar means this is an overshirt jacket, not tailoring, and over a shirt and tie it looks confused. Over a jumper or a plain tee it is excellent. Buy it for what it actually is rather than hoping it will double up as a blazer. Bought for what it is, it is one of the best things I own.
Goes over a hoodie
Regular fit with genuine room. A hoodie underneath and the buttons still close with nothing straining across the chest. There is genuine room built into the fit, which is why I bought it. The buttons still close comfortably with a thick one on, which was the whole test for me.
Right weight to travel with
Packed into a case for three nights and came out with almost nothing in it. Hung it up on arrival and by the evening it was ready. Nothing needed pressing at any point. For something that has to look presentable at the other end that matters a great deal.
Wears indoors and out
Because it is a jacket weight rather than a full coat weight I keep it on at a desk and then walk straight out in it without changing anything at all. Very little else in my wardrobe manages to do both, and it means it gets far more use than something I would have to take off at the door. Anything I have to take off gets worn half as much.
Short in the body
Excellent jacket and the make is not in question. At six foot four the body length sits higher on me than it should, so it rides up at the back when I reach forward and shows a band of shirt. On anyone under six foot it would be perfect. Worth checking the length if you are tall. Everything else about it is right and I have kept it regardless of that.
Identical replacement
It fits, it has lasted, it goes with everything I own and it has never been the wrong choice for anything I have worn it to. If it wore out tomorrow I would order an identical one and not look at a single alternative before doing it. Two full seasons of wear and it has never once been the wrong choice for anything I have worn it to.
No change after cleaning
Recieved it back from the end of season clean with no shrinkage and the shade completely unchanged, which on a deep colour is not a given. The lining had not puckered anywhere either. It went straight back into a cover for the summer.
Colour gets noticed
Two people asked about it in the first week and neither of them normally comments on anything. It is entirely the shade doing it, because the shape is completely plain.
Daily use, no damage
Worn most days since the autumn and there is no pilling at the cuffs, no shine on the elbows and no sagging where the pockets are. The colour has not faded at the shoulders either, which was the thing I was most definately expecting to go on something this deep. For something worn this hard in a single season that is a very good result.
Ordered it for my partner
He had shown me a picture of something similar months earlier and I remembered, which is rarer than it should be. Ordered off the measurements of a jacket already hanging up. It fit first time and he has worn it four days a week since it arrived.
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