Tan Faux Suede Moto Jacket
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Tan Faux Suede Asymmetric Zip Cropped Moto Jacket
A jacket cropped to the waist in a brushed, suede-look finish, with wide notched lapels held down by press studs, an asymmetric zip through the front and zips at the pockets and the cuffs.
A brushed finish is dyed in small lots, so the series stays short.
An asymmetric zip, under studio light
A photo session where somebody else is choosing the frame, and the jacket has to hold a line from the collarbone down. The zip runs off centre, so the front has a diagonal in it, and that diagonal is what the lens picks up before anything else does. Between shots your hands go into the zipped pockets and the shape stays where it was.
Cropped at the waist means the jacket ends where you end, so the eye follows the lapels up to the face instead of stopping halfway down the body. The lapels are cut wide and held by press studs, which keeps them flat rather than lifting away. Looking at the pictures afterwards, the second read is not the jacket at all — it is a person standing as though the clothes had been settled long before the session started.
The frames people keep are the ones where the zip runs off centre.
Brushed suede-look, zipped at the cuff
The cloth has a brushed, suede-look face, so the surface takes light softly rather than throwing it back. The body is cropped to the waist and the lapels are cut wide and notched, held down by press studs rather than left loose. The zip is set asymmetrically, so the front closes on a diagonal.
Everything that opens on this jacket opens on a zip: the pockets at the front and the cuffs at the wrist, so a sleeve can be closed down or left open at the hand. The studs at the lapel are the one thing the fingers find that is not a zip pull. Worn open, the notch in the lapel still holds its shape.
Lapels, zip, pockets, cuffs
- Cropped to the waist
- A brushed, suede-look finish
- Wide notched lapels held by press studs
- An asymmetric zip through the front
- Zipped pockets
- Zipped cuffs
Beige, Black, Blue and Grey, one cut
At the selector it reads Beige, Black, Blue and Grey, and the brushed face is worked the same way in each, so the zips and the studs sit against the same soft surface.
What travels with it
Order more than one piece and a complimentary gift travels in the same parcel, picked out here and added to nothing you pay.
| Piece | Jackets |
|---|---|
| Material | Suede |
| Closure | Zip |
| Inside | Zipped inside pocket |
| Lapels | Wide and notched, held by press studs |
| Zip | Asymmetric |
| Cuffs | Zipped |
| Length | Cropped to the waist |
| Size | XS, S, M, L, XL |
| Colours | Beige, Black, Blue, Grey |
A brushed face is dyed in lots
A brushed suede-look face has to be dyed and finished in small lots, and the zips at the cuff and the pocket are set one at a time, so the jacket arrives in batches rather than continuously. The tan empties before the rest, and a return of the same run is not guaranteed.
If the colour is the one you want, take it now. Fourteen days from delivery is room enough to try it indoors and send it back unworn.
