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 |
Hangs straight on a hook
No shoulder points growing where a hanger ends and no sag at the hem after a week on a hook by the door. There is structure in the top of it.
Flat in a box
Ordered on the Tuesday and it arrived on the Saturday, flat in a box with tissue in the sleeves and card at the shoulders so nothing had been crushed. It went straight onto a hanger.
Did not need altering
I usually have to get a coat taken in through the body because the standard cut is drawn for somebody considerably broader than I am. This one came out of the box already close through the waist and clean across the back, so it went straight onto a hanger rather than to a tailor. That saved me the best part of a hundred on top of the price.
Black has not faded
Worn hard through a whole winter and hung in daylight all summer, and it is the same shade at the shoulders as it is at the hem. Black is the colour that goes wrong first on a cheap coat, usually turning a sort of rusty grey across the top, and there is no sign at all of that here.
Snaps alone will do
On a mild day I close the four snaps and leave the zip open underneath. Takes about two seconds and it still looks completely shut from the outside. Nobody has ever noticed the difference.
Two steps to open it
Very good coat and I wear it daily, but getting into it is a two part job. You have to pop the snaps before you can reach the zip, and then do both again on the way back in. It is a few seconds either way and I have got used to it, but a single closure would have been quicker on a busy morning.
No creases off a train
An hour sitting down and then straight into a meeting with nothing across the back to apologise for. Most wool at this weight comes out of a seat with two horizontal lines that stay there all day. This has not once done that, and I have stopped bothering to take it off and fold it over an arm on a journey.
Reads formal enough
Worn to an evening thing where everybody else was in something considerably dearer and it did not stand out as the cheap coat in the room. The line is clean, there is no visible hardware and the black is even. Nobody was looking at it, which at a formal thing is exactly the result you want from a coat.
Snaps close solidly
They are proper metal snaps with weight behind them and they close with a real sound rather than the plastic click you get on cheaper coats. Not one has popped open on its own in a whole season, which after the last coat I owned was the single thing I was watching for.
Tight over a thick knit
No complaint about the make, it is genuinely well put together. The modern fit is properly modern though, so over a heavy cable knit it pulls across the shoulder blades and the zip takes some persuading. Over a shirt and a thin jumper it is perfect. Anyone who layers heavily should think about going up one.
Goes with all of it
Grey trousers, dark denim, black shoes, brown boots. It has not argued with a single thing I own eiher, which is the whole point of buying a black one. I stopped thinking about it weeks ago.
Winter two, unchanged
Bought last autumn, worn most days right through, then into a cover for the summer. It has come out for a secound winter with no bagging at the elbows, no shine anywhere and every snap and button still tight. The cloth has softened very slightly, which I am counting as a gain rather than as wear.
Hem falls straight down
Long coats have a habit of kicking out at the front hem once they have been worn a while, so the two edges stop meeting cleanly. This still closes dead straight from the top snap to the bottom after a full season, which says the cloth was cut properly rather than pulled into shape on a press.
Dense rather than heavy
You lift it out of the box expecting it to be a weight and it is not. The blend has real density in it, so it holds heat properly and hangs straight from the shoulder without dragging at the neck by the afternoon. That balance is what separates a coat you wear every day from one that stays on a hook.
You cannot see the zip
The snap placket runs the full length over the top of it, so from the front there is no metal showing anywhere and it reads as a plain overcoat rather than as something sporty with a zip up the middle. That was the exact thing that put me off three other coats I looked at, and here somebody has actually thought about it.
Flatter black than the photos
No fault with the build, which is excellent. In the photographs it looks like a deep blue black and in daylight it is a flat matte black that reads slightly grey against a black suit. Indoors it is fine. Anyone matching it to formal black should know that before ordering rather than after it turns up.
Two inside, one each side
One interior pocket on each side rather than both crammed on one, so a phone and a wallet balance instead of dragging the front off centre. My last coat had both of them stitched into the left side and after a couple of months the whole front hung crooked and never really recovered. Whoever laid this one out has clearly carried something in a coat before.
Cold at the chin
Good coat and I have no regrets. The top snap sits close under the chin and it is bare metal, so on a hard morning it is genuinely cold against the skin for the first minute until it warms up. A scarf sorts it entirely. It is the one place where the hardware is a little exposed.
Hoodie fits under it too
I had assumed a modern fit coat would only ever go over tailoring and it takes a hoodie perfectly well. The zip still runs clean from bottom to top and nothing pulls at the armhole when I reach forward. That gives it a second life at weekends that I had not expected to get out of it at all.
Black goes anywhere
It has been over a suit for a funeral, over black tie for an evening thing and over jeans on a Sunday, and it has not looked wrong at any of them. There is not another coat in the house that could have done all three. That is what a black overcoat is for and this one earns the description.
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