Light, bike-friendly and stylish jacket for layering about town across multiple seasons
is a cycling-friendly take on a design classic. Able to be dressed up or down, for working or Being Seen – on or off the bike – it's cracking value for what you get.
The pockets are the USP of the French worker's jacket, and if for some reason you're not in marketing that stands for 'unique selling proposition'. On the outside you get three large flat pockets. The two lower ones are each large enough to hold an A5-size Moleskine diary or a decent paperback, and do so without overly twisting the hang of the jacket. Heaven forfend your copy of Ulysses should sit crooked.
The collar can be turned up, but isn't reinforced in any way so adds minimal protection from weather. The cuffs are quite snug. There are two cuff buttons, the wider of the two allowing the jacket to be pulled on or off over the hands, the narrower to pretty much make a seal around the wrist. The hem reached down to just below my bum, and the stretchy fabric works well here. The cut of the jacket isn't snug, that's for sure – so if I was bent over in an aggressive position there's a fair bit of bunching. Matron. On an upright bike or walking around, the fit is fine.
The only way I can think to improve things is with a DWR coating to at least bead off light showers. Jackets are for outside, and outside is where the rain is, I've noticed...
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