Size Guide
| Size |
|---|
Body Measurement: Women Outerwear
| SIZE | US | BUST (IN) |
|---|---|---|
| XS | 4 | 33 - 34 |
| S | 6 | 35 - 36 |
| M | 8 | 37 - 38 |
| L | 10 | 39 - 40 |
| XL | 12 | 41 - 43 |
| XXL | 14 | 44 - 46 |
| XXXL | 16 | 47 - 49 |
Looks costly
Two people have asked me which designer it is, which has never happened to me before. It is the pattern doing the work, plus the fact the cloth has some body to it rather than hanging off you like a sheet.
Second one for my sister
She tried mine on at Christmas and I could see what was coming. Ordered her one in January and it arrived identical in fit and shade, which given they were months apart says the sizing is consistent. We now have to text each other before we meet up anywhere at all. That has already become a genuine problem twice. Neither of us minds all that much.
Over a jumper daily
The relaxed cut means a proper thick jumper goes underneath without anything straining, which is definately the reason I wanted this rather than a fitted blazer. It has become the thing I put on over everything from October onward without thinking about it.
Pattern hides marks
Practical benefit nobody mentions. A grey and black weave does not show the small marks and dust that a plain dark jacket does, so it goes far longer between cleans. With two young children that matters more than it probably should to anyone else.
Borrowed from menswear
This is cut like a mans jacket and that is exactly why I bought it. The straight body, the double breasted front, the herringbone. Worn over a polo neck and jeans it looks deliberate rather than like I have raided somebody else's wardrobe. Nothing else I own has that quality. It is the most complimented thing I have. Three people asked about it in one week.
Autumn staple now
On the hook from September and it stays there until spring. I reach for it without thinking, which is the highest thing I can say about a piece of clothing.
Needs a belt
Straight cut with no shaping through the waist, which is the point of the design, but if you want a shape you can put a belt over the top and it takes one beautifully. I am suprised how well that works with a wide leather one.
Sleeves came long
Beautiful thing, but the relaxed cut means the sleeves are long as well as the body being roomy. Mine came almost to the knuckle and needed an inch off. Cheap to do and worth it, but budget for the trip if your arms are short. The body length was right, so it was only the arms that needed doing, which was cheap enough.
Buttons are good
Heavy buttons, properly shanked so they stand off the cloth, and the two rows line up exactly when you fasten it. On a double breasted front that alignment is the giveaway between something considered and something thrown together in a hurry eiher way.
Not a fitted blazer
Worth saying plainly so nobody is disappointed. This is relaxed and straight, not nipped in at the waist. If you want a sharp tailored blazer this is the wrong one. If you want something you can live in, it is the right one.
Would size down
The jacket is excellent and I am keeping it. If I ordered again I would take the size below, because relaxed here really does mean relaxed and I have more room than I need across the back. Read the fit description properly, unlike me. It still gets worn four days a week exactly as it came, so this is a note rather than a warning.
Pattern is the point
Plain wool would be dull. The herringbone gives it something to look at without being loud about it, and it goes with far more than a pattern has any right to.
Arrived in good time
Ordered on a Thursday and it came the following Tuesday. Boxed with tissue in the sleeves. Two folds across the back that hung out by the following morning on a hanger.
No coat needed
It has enough weight that I have been out in it on cold mornings with nothing over the top. That is not usual for a blazer. It has effectively replaced a light coat for two months of the year at either end.
Everyday since October
It has not really come off since the weather turned. Work, weekends, the shops, one evening thing where I put a silk top underneath and it passed perfectly well. Very few things earn that much wear in a wardrobe, and fewer still deserve it.
Saw it on someone else
A woman in a queue was wearing one and I asked her outright where it came from, which is not like me at all. She was very good about it. Ordered mine that evening and it has been the best thing I have bought in two years by a distance. I keep hoping somebody stops me in a queue one day.
Held up to daily wear
Worn four or five days a week since it arrived in the autumn and it has not gone shapeless, which was my worry with a relaxed cut. The shoulders still sit where they should and the front still hangs straight. Nothing has pilled, including under the arms where my last one went first. For a relaxed cut that is better than I hoped.
Best thing this year
I have bought a lot of clothes this year and returned most of them. This one stayed and has been worn more than everything else combined. Sometimes you get lucky with an order and this was the one time it happened.
Still the favourite
Bought this alongside two other things in the same order and this is the one my wife has actually worn. The other two went back on the secound day. She describes it as the only jacket she owns that does not feel like a uniform.
Clashes with prints
Genuinely lovely jacket, this is not a criticism of the quality. A herringbone is a pattern, so anything else patterned underneath is a fight. I have learned to wear it over plain things and then it is perfect. Over a plain roll neck or a shirt it is completely faultless. I have just had to think about what goes under it.
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