The Best Jacket
at your size

Cotton, linen, tweed

Of course, cotton for a jacket is also an option. Thin in summer, a thicker twill or even Moleskin or Corduroy in fall and winter. You can make a cotton jacket very well unstructured and by being washed it ages beautifully. One type of cotton we leave underexposed then and that is the seersucker. A lighter fabric than that in wear is hardly imaginable. The ultimate casual summer jacket.

Perhaps the most casual is a jacket in linen because the fabric wrinkles a bit more and it is very light. So you barely feel it. Unlike wool where the heavier the rougher and less formal the opposite is true with linen. There the thicker the more formal. Irish linen is more formal than the flabbier Italian linen. Combinations with silk make linen more formal and a tad shinier. Combinations with wool reduce creasing and increase durability. One drawback: combining materials during spinning makes a fabric more expensive and thus ultimately the jacket.

Now that we have helped you a bit in the materials and weight, the next question about your desired color is a logical one. Blue is the most commonly chosen color because it can be worn for business, looks good on many men and combines easily. Gray is also being chosen more often as a jacket lately. If you build your wardrobe around the colors blue (from mid to dark blue), brown, beige (from camel to sand) and gray you can easily combine all items with white and light blue shirts. You will then look stylish very quickly. Fashion colors like green (although this color is already almost a basic color), ochre, bordeaux, brique and purple should match your skin tone and your style, but when they do they brighten up any wardrobe.

Choose the right material

Plain fabrics are the easiest to combine. Fine stripes in jackehave a bit of a comeback lately. The boating stripe is so pronounced that few can get away with it, which is precisely why it is so fun. Plaids of all kinds from the more classic pied de poule to the prince of wales, an overshirt, a tartan or a sportier BB check to the madras check are all to be considered. The more pronounced, the less often you will wear it.

An open woven fabric such as a basket weave, Mock Leno or a dry coarse Fresco will fit well into your wardrobe if you want to wear the jacket of the suit separately as well. You can then wear the jacket outside as well as inside. Buttons and other details help determine the look.

Our advice: start with a basic blue jacket in a basketweave or even cotton. Expand your wardrobe with a brown jacket in a twill or herringbone for fall and winter, choose a green one for the mid-season and a linen one for summer. You can also have a tweed -cotton- or linen suit made. Have the jacket made in terms of details so that you can also wear the jacket separately.

Of course, we're going to help you in our stores with all the choices. We do this by listening first and then funneling so we don't have to show you all the fabric options. We also have several examples and lots of pictures in the stores. This way we are sure to come up with a good choice to complement your wardrobe. One of those jackets you always want and can wear.