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 |
One hand does it
The zip is the reason I picked this over the buttoned one. You can shut it with one hand while you are carrying something in the other, which sounds like nothing until you are standing at a car boot in the rain with a bag in one arm trying to work down a row of buttons. Since it arrived I have not once thought about the closure, which is the point.
Guide got it right
Ordered on the chest measurement in the guide rather than working off what I usually take and it came out exactly right first time. No sending anything back and no waiting a fortnight for a swap, which is worth something on its own given how often that goes the other way.
Wrist bone exactly
Long enough to sit at the wrist bone with a shirt cuff underneath and not so long that they swallow your hands. I did not have to get anything altered.
Second season and holding
Bought last autumn and worn hard through the whole of it, then put away in a cover for the summer. It has come out for a secound winter with no pilling where a bag strap sits, no thinning at the elbows and no fraying at the pocket edges. The only change is that the cloth has gone slightly softer, which I am counting as an improvement rather than as wear.
Nobody guesses the price
I have been asked where it came from four times since the weather turned, twice by people whose own jackets cost a great deal more than this one did. It does not look like a bargain and nothing about it gives the game away. If somebody had told me the figure before I saw it I would have expected to find a corner cut somewhere obvious.
Keeps its shape
It has lived on a hook by the door rather than on a hanger for most of the winter and it has not dropped out of shape at the shoulders the way a soft jacket does. It still hangs straight down the front when you put it on. Small thing, and it tells you a lot about the cloth.
Shade moves in different light
I like the jacket a great deal and this is not really a fault. Outdoors in daylight it is clearly green. Under office lighting it goes brown grey and reads almost like a dark taupe. It means matching it to trousers is guesswork, because whatever works at home may not work by the time you are indoors somewhere else.
Airs out overnight
It gets worn every day and it goes through kitchens, pubs and the back of a taxi, and it has never once come home smelling of any of that. Hung on a hook overnight and by the morning there is nothing left in it at all. The thing it replaced held onto everything and had to go in a machine every fortnight, so this has not been near one eiher.
Cuff buttons still tight
Both of them have been done and undone twice a day since October and neither has worked loose or started to spin on its thread. They are shanked so they stand off the cloth rather than dragging at it. It is a small thing and it is usually the first part of a jacket to give up.
Nothing to change
Two winters in and the only thing I would alter is the care label. It fits, it is warm for what it weighs, the zip has never let me down, the pockets do what they should and the colour has held completely. If it wore out tomorrow I would order the same one again without looking at anything else.
Weekday and Saturday
Worn it over a work shirt on a weekday and over a t shirt on a Saturday and it has read correctly both times. It is not a smart jacket and it is not scruffy, which is a narrow gap and most things fall out of it in one direction or the other. I have not had to think about whether it suits an occasion once.
Four pockets, two jobs
Flaps up high for a phone and a wallet, open ones lower down for your hands. Two different jobs and neither one gets in the way of the other. Most jackets give you two pockets and expect them to cover both, which means one thing is always sitting on top of the other.
Cleaned once, came back fine
Sent it in at the end of the season half expecting a lecture about wool blends. No shrinkage anywhere, the shade completely unchanged and the zip still running as it should. I was suprised how straightforward it turned out to be given how firm the care label is about the whole business.
Browsing has stopped
He had been circling jackets online since last winter without ever committing to one. I ordered this off the measurements of something already in his wardrobe and hung it on the back of the door without saying anything. It fit first time, he has worn it nearly every day since and the browsing has finally stopped.
Room for a hoodie
Ordered my usual chest size expecting to be squeezed and there is proper room in there. A hoodie goes underneath and the zip still runs cleanly from bottom to top withuot anything straining across the front, and the shoulders do not pull when I reach forward. That is the whole reason I went a regular fit rather than something cut close.
No flap behind the zip
Really pleased with it overall and I wear it most days. There is no storm placket behind the zip, so on a hard morning you can feel a thin cold line running straight down the middle of the front where the teeth are. A scarf or a zipped fleece underneath solves it. Worth knowing if you spend a lot of time standing about outdoors.
He wore it straight out
Bought it for my father, who has form for putting a present in a wardrobe and forgetting about it. He put this on the afternoon he recieved it and has not really taken it off since, and he has told two people at his club where it came from.
Boxed and quick
Ordered on a Wednesday and it was here on the Monday, folded flat with tissue in the sleeves. Nothing needed hanging out overnight before I could wear it. The tracking updated properly the whole way across as well, which is more than half the places I order from ever manage.
Nothing shuts the side pockets
Good jacket and I am keeping it. The lower two pockets are open with no zip and no flap, so when you sit down in a car with your keys in one they end up on the seat. I have moved everything up to the flap pockets and stopped using the bottom ones for anything but hands. Easy enough to live with once you know.
Wind finds nothing
Stood on an open platform for twenty minutes with a shirt and a thin jumper under it and nothing got through. Between the zip line and the cloth there is no gap anywhere for air to work into, which is not something I could say about the fleece this replaced.
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