Men's Utility Jackets

Utility jackets are organised around their pockets, and where those pockets sit tells you what the jacket was built to do. Field jackets in the M-65 mould carry four bellows pockets across chest and hip with a drawcord waist between them. Chore coats keep three flat patch pockets and a plain button front. Safari and bush cuts add a belt and epaulettes, while the overshirt, or shacket, thins the whole idea down to something worn over a tee and under a coat.

Collars carry more of the variation than the bodies do — a hood that rolls away into a stand collar, a corduroy facing on a plain one, a sherpa collar on a jacket lined to match. Cotton sateen, canvas duck and ripstop take abuse and soften with washing; waxed cotton sheds rain and can be re-proofed. Snap plackets, zip fronts, storm cuffs and hidden drawcords make up the rest.