When it comes to spring, besides
the melting snow, the outdoor happy hours and women in miniskirts there is one thing I truly love:
Spring jackets. Spring is a time where men’s
fashion can flourish. You have the
option of dressing however you feel that day; jeans, a sweater and a scarf,
maybe a perfectly tailored suit, or maybe those chinos you've kept hidden away
most of the winter and a nice light spring jacket. I have a closet full of jackets, and my
girlfriend has to keep constantly reminding me to stop buying more. But why?
They are the perfect piece, and can one ever have too much of a perfect
thing?
I've showed you a couple of my favorite spring jackets before (leather Diesel and
navy rain coat from Banana Republic), but that is only the tip of the iceberg. But what makes a good spring jacket you
ask? Here is one tip I tend to lean
towards: Simple. You don’t need some gaudy, obnoxious floral
print windbreaker for it to be a spring coat.
Keep it classy, keep it timeless, and keep it multi-functional. To me that means simple, one of my favorites
is a classic black Members Only jacket (figure 1). They work perfectly with jeans, grey or khaki
chinos, or even some navy suit pants—I get enough use out of mine in the first
couple weeks of spring to have it pay for itself a few times over, and I've had
more than one friend try and “borrow” it since I got it a few years back. Honestly a perfect jacket. Another key jacket to have in your closet for
spring is a lightweight trench, if you don’t have the money to splurge on a
classic Burberry, there are plenty of other options out there. I have an excellent grey trench I picked up
from H&M (figure 2) a couple years back that I still love and get tons of
use out of and it was only around $100.
Are
there more options out there? Of course
there are, thousands of them I’m sure. I
gave you a couple of my favorite spring looks—Have any suggestions of your own?
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| Figure 1 |
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| Figure 2 |
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