made for someone who carries tradition lightly. They’re steady but restless, at home in the city and the countryside, and happiest when something classic turns out to have a second story underneath.
The piece brings two garments into one: a long black wool overcoat, clean and quietly formal, and a checked wool sport jacket in cream, brown and charcoal, layered over it. The jacket’s front panels sit on top of the coat, with their rounded cutaway hem and flap pockets intact. Between them, a dark strip of the coat’s own button placket runs from collar to hem. Below the jacket, the coat carries on, so the black wool frames the check like a longer, darker shadow. A brown collar piece from the jacket sits on the coat’s collar, a small warm accent against the black.
Along the arms, the checked sleeves run down over the black ones and end at the wrist with the jacket’s original cuff buttons. At the back, a checked yoke spreads across the shoulders, and the sleeves curve into checked panels at the elbows, like oversized patches. The rest is plain black wool, finished with a long centre vent.
From a distance, it reads as a heritage check coat. Up close, you see two garments: tweedy against smooth, warm against dark, tailoring cut apart and put back together.