I’ve by no means worn denim jackets a lot. They’ve normally been an occasional merchandise, an experimental different to the suede blousons or chore jackets I put on extra.

I believe partly it’s concerning the types I affiliate them with, which is mainly denim-obsessive workwear or extra fashion-led womenswear. The truth is, I would not be stunned if males’s impressions typically have been relatively affected by how widespread they’re with girls. 

The opposite, equally vital motive is that I’ve discovered them laborious to mix into outfits. The look of a denim jacket, white T-shirt and beige chinos is traditional, but it surely additionally felt a bit too ‘straight’. Not incorrect, however not me. 

On the different excessive, a denim jacket with tailoring usually felt too uncommon – not traditional sufficient. A number of the Bryceland’s guys put on them with flannels and a shirt commonly, but it surely by no means felt fairly proper to me. That is, I suppose, the method of discovering your model. 

There have been pictures of me sporting denim jackets in each these types on PS prior to now, in addition to some barely extra uncommon ones like underneath the Bridge Coat. I’ve included a few of them above. 

In some methods the actual fact these outfits have cropped up, however solely as soon as, illustrates the method of attempting one thing, it not fairly clicking, and in consequence narrowing down your model. 

Extra not too long ago, I’ve been sporting denim jackets once more – significantly because it’s a pleasant spring/summer season jacket different – and pairing them with blue denims. I’d at all times assumed this could be too vogue, too uncommon. However so long as the blues aren’t that related to one another, I prefer it.

So I discover the mid-blue of my second-hand Levi’s Classic Clothes jacket above (purchased at Union Fade in Milan) good with a dark-indigo jean. They may be the identical materials, however there’s nothing matchy about it. 

The pictures above and under are from a shoot we tried within the PS showroom. I believe we will enhance how we do these shoots, however the pictures serve to indicate the essential mixture: the 2 blue jeans with a T-shirt, gray sweatshirt and snuff-suede Alden chukka boots. With a classic tan belt to match. 

Jason Jules does it higher within the lead picture to this piece, however then he would. I suppose he had the benefit of a correct studio too. 

One other approach I like sporting the jacket is with an enormous down-gilet excessive. That’s a deerskin one from The Actual McCoy’s above.  

Folks usually layer denim jackets underneath coats, and I can see the enchantment of this – each the sensible one in that it may be worn in colder months, and the stylistic one in that it’s an surprising little bit of texture underneath a clean overcoat. 

It’s a glance I affiliate with Bruce Pask, and Regis Guyot appears to do it nicely (that is them under, so as). However I normally discover this look impractical (maybe the larger sleeves of classic ones are too massive for some coats) and a bit contrived on me. I haven’t repeated that look with the denim jacket underneath the Bridge Coat because the shoot. 

A gilet is far simpler excessive – there aren’t any sleeves that need to work collectively, but it provides lots of heat. In colder months I’ve discovered I successfully put on the 2 collectively as a coat, taking them each off as one once I arrive someplace. 

After I desire a barely stronger look (and naturally the solar’s out) I just like the denim jacket with white denims. Both a gray or blue tee on high, maybe a white one with a belt in between. That’s @kenichi_0215 under on Instagram in one thing related. No concept what he does, however I like the best way he wears grungey seems and ripped denims but avoids wanting like he’s attempting too laborious to look younger.  

The following picture is Shuhei Nishiguchi, as an illustration of the traditional chinos look that I by no means appear to love. Possibly I have to mess around with the proportions extra. 

The ultimate pictures are there as an example the identical factor: the look with tailoring that could be a bit too uncommon for me (on Willy at The Anthology and from Boogie Vacation), and the matchy-matchy double denim which I discover lots simpler to drag off with a shirt than a jacket, for some motive. 

Maybe it’s these associations talked about firstly – a denim shirt looks like one of the vital common issues a man can put on, whereas a denim jacket has shades of each workwear and womenswear. Certainly, now I give it some thought, in the most recent shoot for the Bridge Coat I wore a denim shirt as a substitute of a jacket. The mixture of supplies nonetheless clearly appeals, simply in a special garment.

So then the apparent query – do you put on a denim jacket, and in that case with what?

There will probably be a follow-up article this week taking a look at the very best denim jackets on the market. The opposite garments proven on me are: a Actual McCoy’s ‘Ball Park’ sweatshirt, a Everlasting Fashion tapered T-shirt, Rubato denims, a Actual McCoy’s suede/reindeer gilet, a classic belt and Alden chukka boots.