What Nobody Explains About Coat Sizing
“Buy it big enough to fit a jumper under it.” So said a man working in a shop on Mount Street recently. We were staring at coats together because I…
How Coat Sizing Actually Works
I used to believe zip side was arbitrary. Like how towels should fold, a convention invented purely so people could have an opinion on it. Ask me where the zip…
The Coat Sizing Guide I Wish Someone Had Given Me
Someone once told me, back in my supermarket working days of the nineties, “right over left that’s men’s left over right that’s ladies sir, now get back to folding those…
The Waistcoat Sizing Guide I Wish Someone Had Given Me
By thirty seconds I mean the thirty seconds you spend staring helplessly at racks in a hire shop or the thirty seconds it takes someone on the phone at said…
Why Do Mens Coats Button on the Right?
I had a bloke come into the shop sometime in the late eighties holding two coats, identical as far as I could tell, insisting one of them was “wrong.” Turned…
Is the Leather Jacket Still Worth Owning?
Dean texted me at half eleven on a Tuesday night asking if leather jackets were “still a thing” because he’d seen one in a shop window and panicked about whether…
What Jackets Are Actually Worth Buying Right Now
Stood at a rail in the Barras a few months back, half listening to the fella next to me telling his pal he needed “a fashion jacket, something that’s actually…
Why Do Mens Jackets Button on the Right?
Buttoned up a charity shop blazer wrong three times before I clocked what I was actually doing. Kept doing the top button, hand going to the left side out of…
Is the Denim Jacket Still a Wardrobe Staple?
I found my old denim jacket in a bag at the back of the wardrobe last month, looking for a jumper for my brother’s youngest, and my first thought wasn’t…
What I Learned Getting My Jacket Right
“That’s a lovely jacket, what size is that then, an XL?” a bloke in the pub asked me last winter, nodding at the navy one I’d just picked up off…