Best Made CompanyPossibilities Jacket Tan

An unstructured, lightweight layer that's as at home in the bottom of a duffel as it is around the boardroom table. Because some jackets need to go anywhere, and they should look good doing it. With that in mind we enlisted an exceptional fabric woven in Japan from a blend of 70% cotton and 30% Cordura® ripstop nylon, the high-tenacity yarns add abrasion resistance and durability without giving up the hand-feel of natural cotton. The ripstop construction — a crosshatch weave originally developed for the US Airborne in WWII — isolates small tears so they can't spread. The fabric is dyed and finished in the Gifu Prefecture, at a specialized mill that has earned its reputation handling technical blends like this one. Up close, the deeply saturated ripstop grid is barely visible; from across the room, the cloth reads as fine cotton. Cut and sewn in New York City by our most trusted outerwear makers, the Possibilities Jacket features two generous patch pockets, one interior pocket, a vented back, a trapunto-stitched collar, herringbone interior reinforcements, a locker loop, and Corozo buttons. Light enough to forget you're wearing it, tough enough for the rigors of travel and work, and refined enough to wear with a necktie. Product Details The name "Possibilities Jacket" is a nod to a frontier tradition. Mountain men and trappers of the 18th and 19th centuries carried what they called a "possibles bag" — a small pouch holding everything one might possibly need on the trail: flint and tobacco, jerky, tools, fire kit. Davy Crockett carried one. Lewis and Clark would have. The idea was practical and a little philosophical at once: that a person, properly equipped, could go anywhere. We've taken the same view of a jacket. A note on ripstop: the fabric is woven in a ripstop construction — a crosshatch grid developed in the early 1940s, after the war cut off the silk supply Allied parachutes depended on. DuPont's newly invented nylon stepped in, but parachutes still tore on deployment, and a small rip could be fatal. The fix was a weave: thicker reinforcement yarns inserted at regular intervals, so a tear could start but couldn't propagate past the next thread. On most ripstop fabrics that grid is conspicuous, almost a design statement. On ours it's barely visible. Materials 70% cotton 30% Cordura® nylon Corozo buttons Origin Made in the USA