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 |
Present that actually stayed
Bought it for my son, who returns about half of what he is given and says almost nothing about the rest. This one stayed. He wore it the week he recieve it and asked whether the same place did anything in grey.
He has stopped borrowing mine
I ordered it off the measurements of something already in his wardrobe and hung it in the hall without saying anything. It fit first time and my own coat has been left alone ever since, which was quietly the point.
Two rows do not show
No fault with the make, which is very good. The buttons are matched so closely to the burgundy that from any distance you cannot see there are two rows at all, so the coat loses the thing that makes a double breasted front worth having. A shade darker on the button would have shown the structure off properly.
Hangs open properly
The two front edges keep a straight line even undone, so walking into somewhere warm and leaving it hanging looks deliberate. Half the double breasted coats I tried on turned into a dressing gown the moment they were not fastened, because all the shape was in the overlap and nothing else.
Flaps keep the rain out
The two upper pockets have proper flaps that sit down over the openings rather than sticking up as decoration, so a shower does not fill them. I keep a phone and a set of keys up there and nothing has been wet yet, which after a coat with four open welts was the specific thing I had gone looking for before ordering anything at all.
Sleeve lands at the wrist
Long enough to cover a shirt cuff with a jacket underneath and short enough that it does not swallow the back of the hand. I have had every coat I own shortened at the sleeve and this one went straight on unaltered, which after years of paying for that is a small novelty I have not stopped noticing.
Wedding with a day
Ordered it two days before a wedding on a gamble and it arrived with a day to spare. It fit, it went over the suit, and three people asked him about it before the speeches were finished.
Second row is not decoration
Both rows do a job. The inner button has a real hole to fasten into rather than being sewn on for symmetry, which is what stops the overlap sliding about.
Regular fit means regular
Not slim pretending to be regular. There is room for a jumper under a suit jacket and the buttons still meet without anything straining. That is rarer than it ought to be, because half the coats sold as regular have been quietly cut down over the past few years and you only find out once you try to put something underneath one.
Shoulders take the weight
Whoever cut the top of this understood that a long coat lives or dies on the shoulder. It sits on the point rather than an inch down the arm, so everything below it hangs correctly and there is no dragging at the neck by the afternoon. It looks considerably better on than it does on a hanger, which is the right way round.
Brother wore it twice
He wears the same charcoal thing every year and has done since university. I ordered this and left it on his bed. He has worn it to two weddings since and told me the colour was a good idea, which is close to a speech from him.
Warm before a scarf
Two thicknesses of wool across the chest and a lapel that closes high, and I have gone most of this winter without putting a scarf on at all. That was not something I had thought to want from a coat and it has turned out to be the thing I notice most on a cold morning walking into a wind.
Welts vanish when buttoned
Very good coat and I wear it most days, so read this as a note. The double breasted front laps right over the two welt pockets, so with the coat done up you cannot get into them at all. They are only usable with it hanging open. On a cold day that is exactly when you want them and exactly when you cannot have them.
No warning given
He had been circling coats online since last winter and never committing. This went on the back of the door with no warning. It fit first time, he has worn it almost daily since and I have not been sent a single link to look at since it recieved a first outing.
Welts sit where hands fall
Not three inches too high the way they usually are. You drop your arms and they are right there, which sounds obvious and almost nothing gets it right. Every coat I have owned before this put its openings somewhere between the ribs and the waist, so you spend the winter with your elbows held out at an angle trying to look natural about it.
No care line at all
Really pleased with the coat and this is the only gap. There is nothing on the specification about cleaning, so with a strong dye on a wool blend you are guessing whether a damp cloth is safe or whether it is a dry clean job. I paid a cleaner rather than risk it. One line would have settled the question.
Winter two, unmarked
Bought last autumn and worn four or five days a week straight through the season, then hung in a cover. Out for a secound winter with no bagging at the elbows, no fraying at the pocket mouths and every button still tight on its thread. The cloth has softened slightly, which I count as a gain.
Outlasting the last one
My last overcoat cost close to double and went at the pocket corners inside two winters, with the mouths fraying and the lining pulling away at the seam. Nothing similar has started here after a full season of daily wear, and the pocket bags are noticeably more substantial than the ones on the coat I paid more for.
Escaped the black rule
Every man on the platform is in black or charcoal and I had been one of them for six years. This is dark enough to be serious and coloured enough that it is obviously a choice. It has changed how the same suit underneath reads, which is a considerable return on one garment, and I have not gone back to the black one once since this arrived in the house.
Heft without the drag
You feel it the moment it comes out of the box, and then you stop feeling it once it is on because the balance is right and it hangs from the shoulder rather than dragging at the neck. Weight without drag is the whole trick with a long coat and most of the ones I tried in shops failed it inside a minute.
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