Short jacket in black and white wool-cashmere

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Garment

£285.00

Five-button jacket, made in London, with black and white herringbone wool-cashmere from West Yorkshire, corduroy from Lancashire, and real horn buttons made in the West Midlands.

Sizing

The jacket fits true to size.

XS S M L XL
To fit chest 36 38 40 42 44
Pit-to-pit 20 21 22 23 24
Shoulder 17½ 18 18½ 19 20
Sleeve length 24½ 25 25 25½ 25½
Back length 24½ 25 25½ 25½ 26
Image of the Short jacket in black and white wool-cashmere
The seam jacket is a five-button garment with a hidden placket; only the top button is visible. It has a spread collar that is slightly rounded, and two large patch pockets, which are hidden beneath a fold-down seam running all the way around the body.
The jacket is made from a wool-cashmere from a mill in West Yorkshire. It's a unique cloth — part herringbone, part barleycorn pattern. It's remarkably soft, and drapes very well, thanks in most part to the cashmere content.
The underside of the collar is faced with nearly-black corduroy made in Lancashire. It helps the collar stand up, if the wearer so wishes. The jacket is lined with charcoal wool-melton (below-right) and the buttons are horn (below left).
The fold-down seam from which the seam jacket takes its name, running around the jacket at hip-height.

As worn

The chap here is 5ft 11in (180cm) and wears a size small.

Makers of

The jacket is made by an outerwear factory in north-east London. It is specialised skill, assembling jackets from thick and heavy cloth. The idea is to make something which truly lasts — all highly durable making techniques, heavy fusing, and turned seams — without the result being stiff or bulky.
The cloth comes from a cashere mill in the Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire. Now into its third century of existence, nowhere in the British Isles knows machine-finished cashmere better. That the cloth from its loom is of the highest grade is a familiar boast, but is here entirely merited.
The melton lining is woven by a mill in West Yorkshire. Tightly woven from 100% new wool, and with a smooth but pleasingly textured finish, it is for all intents and purpose a top-grade outerwear fabric — but is used on the inside here because it is warm and surprisingly friendly on the skin.
The horn buttons are cut, shaped, and polished by the last such factory in Britain. It continues a tradition in the Midlands, first linked to the area's meat markets, in the 18th century. "It is no easy task," said William Hutton in 1780, "to enumerate the infinite diversity of buttons here in Birmingham."