As the weather cools and gets wetter our thoughts turn to outerwear. A jacket that will be useful whether wet or dry, cool or freezing cold. Mr Porter recently sent me a combination jacket from The Workers Club that may provide an answer. Comprising three separate garments, layered together they stylishly provide several options to cover many weather conditions.
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| The jacket, down jacket and gilet worn together. One of twelve combinations |
The collection includes a water-repellant canvas outer shell jacket with taped seams, check wool gilet and reversible down filled liner, which can be zipped into each other to form a fully water and wind resistant jacket. I've been trying to work out how many options these combinations give you. I reckon it's at least twelve depending on how you like to layer the gilet and down jacket.
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| The outer shell jacket comes in three colours, navy, orange and olive/navy |
Mr Porter describes this combination as, "really simple, but the designers hope this will be an item every man will have in his wardrobe".
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| The wool check gilet |
The designers are husband and wife team, Charlotte and Adam Cameron, who founded The Workers Club (TWC) with a view to providing quality clothing for men who like to buy less, but better. A laudable aim, and one which more men are buying into. It's good to see Mr Porter supporting smaller businesses.
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| The down jacket is reversible |
The jacket and its various parts are beautifully made, very high quality, durable, comfortable and stylish in a rugged, outdoor sort of way. It went well (I thought) with my experimental beard too. I look forward to seeing what else TWC come up with in future.
Jacket: £495, wool gilet: £250, down jacket: £360. See Mr Porter for more information and to buy. To find out more about TWC (they do a similar range of womenswear) click here to see their website.
With thanks to my lovely daughter Cate for the photography in difficult light conditions!
Jacket: £495, wool gilet: £250, down jacket: £360. See Mr Porter for more information and to buy. To find out more about TWC (they do a similar range of womenswear) click here to see their website.
With thanks to my lovely daughter Cate for the photography in difficult light conditions!
Looks nice, although fairly pricey for the whole set, and disappointing at that price range that it's not made in the UK; I'll continue shopping at Private White for this type of clothing for at least the time being!
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Are there really men out there who would spentpd more that £1,100 on something like this? It looks good, but there are equally good looking items on the market that do the same job and cost less than half that.
ReplyDeleteYou and I are of the same profession, but perhaps the North/south is even greater than I realise, and there are people in the London area who have such a large disposable income that they can afford such items.
It does look like nice kit...but at those prices, you do have to wonder just exactly which "Workers" are the target of "The Workers Club" company?
ReplyDeleteLooks nice but a little bit pricey but I guess the material used may have something to do with the price.
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Not sure about the jacket. Keep going with the beard!
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