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What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

Robbie79

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Just went out for a photoshoot with this Freewheelers Four Corners I'll try to write a review on this one. (yes, I was sweating in the second pic LOL)
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Lovely jacket and pics! Looking good on you!
 

Mrfrown

One Too Many
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It's been interesting seeing the casualisation trend spread, just a couple of years after many big operations in the City dropped 'dress down Fridays'. DDF was unpopular with a lot of people, simply because 'business casual' meant buying a third wardrobe to go along with the work clothes and casual clothes. Funny how these divisions have only become more sharply pronounced, if anything, in menswear in the last thirty odd years.



Would pair nicely with these:

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Peter Christian's this last season. I'm still torturing myself looking at them. I don't really *need* them, but.... I had a pair of lace-up wing-tip co-respondents made in very similar colours a decade or so ago; since I got really into penny loafers in the last few years, these really appeal. Would tone in nicely with your jacket! :)



It's an interesting, Americanised take on Lewis' normal design choices with the belt; if memory serves, the only other jacket with a belt rather than side-straps in their catalogue is the Bronx, which in 1956 they designed with a leather buckle with no pin in order to avoid tank-scratches with the very different riding position adopted by their target market as compared to US jackets. Looks good. Like a Perfect without the coin pocket, features-wise, but still has a distinctly Lewis air about it.

Thanks Edward. They're quite nice and would make a dressier counterpoint than the British tan engineer boots I often wear with it.
 

Edward

Bartender
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Just went out for a photoshoot with this Freewheelers Four Corners I'll try to write a review on this one. (yes, I was sweating in the second pic LOL)
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I really like this one. Love the big flap pocket on the chest. Way back in the 90s I used to wear a wide-lapelled, black leather blazer that was my Dad's; in my crowd we thought I looked well Carlito. Still have it in the wardrobe, though I'm far too big to wear it at present. I've moved away from that style since, and for a long time avoided that middle length between a short leather and a trenchcoat type, but in the last couple of years this sort of blazer-length, work-jacket in leather has really started to appeal to me. This is a particularly nice example.
 
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I'm the very lucky recipient of the @ton312 giveaway of this gorgeous Custom Coat Co. Deerskin bomber...lovely coat and a nice fit on me! Such a classy guy, and generous act.
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Jacket looks superb man! If it fit me that well I’d have kept it:D
Truthfully, I gifted it b/c it came as a gift to me. And so the spirt of the lounge survives another day. I’m proud to be a part of it! Looks good on ya brother. Wear in good health
 

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