3 Most Stylish Jackets for the season
by Luxury.net
Turn around on the Safari jackets. They are the best pick of the season. This season’s most stylish interpretations of the safari jacket. A safari jacket or bush jacket is a garment originally designed for the purpose of going on safari in the African bush. Yes we know you all fashonista are aware of this but what is that comes so much that people just love this one
might seem like a holdover from when Rudyard Kipling was an impressionable lad, but this season, models were festooned with belted waists, eyelets and military doo-dads galore. Now that blood sports are largely out of style ,why re-visit this storied accoutrement? Because it’s just that.
The Jacket is a light weight cotton drill so no worries of those heavy jackets which makes you sweat often. It is believed that the safari jacket is based on certain British khaki drill military apparel worn in warm climates. The leisure suit, a short-lived fashion fad, seems to have been influenced by the safari jacket. The Marvel Comics superhero Wonder Man wore a red safari jacket with black pants as his costume for a period of time.
For this season enjoy the Barbour Corbridge Jacket which you can buy at US$360. As the official supplier of “waterproof and protective clothing” to the British royal family, you can’t go wrong with J. Barbour & Sons Ltd. The Barbour jacket is de riguer for British aristos with its waxed jackets protecting stiff upper lips from frostbite since 1894. This waterproof, waxed jacket is ideal when sporting goes equatorial.
Belstaff Roadmaster Coated Cotton Jacket is the next pick. If you’re not venturing into a savannah anytime soon, the Roadmaster’s navy stonewashed finish makes this jacket perfect for urban concealment. Sans passants (because pulling rank in town is too outré), but with ample pockets for the electronics, this jacket makes fitting armor for the urban warrior. Be stylish at a Price: US$726.
