Woolrich Woolen Mills for Monocle

Monocle continues on a strong run of collaborations this fall including new bags with Porter, crew necks sweaters with Tomorrowland and their second jacket with the Daiki Suzuki helmed Woolrich Woolen Mills. The fall collaboration uses a 4-pocket field jacket I haven't really seen from Woolen Mills in navy blue and olive green. Made from army duck canvas made in Japan, the jacket is built for diverse weather situations while keeping a slimmed down silhouette. Complete with leather drawstring toggles, detachable hood and a button fastened chest flap, the jacket appears to be very durable for the fall / winter. There are only 55 jackets in each color so I would expect to see them sell out before the season's finished. At £385 it's not an easy trigger to pull, but I know I am already regretting missing their first co-branded piece so the anticipation for this release is even higher.

Comments

[Ronan]

What is duck canvas? Any advantages to using it?

[Michael E.]

Duck canvas is a heavy cotton twill fabric. The primary advantage to using it is durability, although it also gives a garment bit of instant "workwear cred."

[Richard G.]

I don't think there is such a thing as 'twill canvas.' Canvas is by definition a plain weave. I think this makes it stronger than twill, but not as heavy. The 'duck' reference should mean that it is a tight weave, making it a heavier than a looser weave and more resistent to wind and water. It will also probably be rougher . This jacket should work well in pretty bad weather. Michael - maybe you are thinking of 'calvalry twill,' although I dont know what the exact difference is between normal twill and calvalry twill. Maybe weight or tightness of the weave?

[Michael E.]

Richard, you are correct: canvas is a plain weave. My mistake.

[damien]

I actual prefer the structure of this jacket over the previous colab. Very sharp. I wanna try this look out regardless of whether or not I get this particular coat. I assume this is from the most recent Oct. Monocle issue? Keep the blazer posts coming! Thanks!

[Chris]

Better than their last effort (which basically was adding a color to an existing model, right?), but still not impressed unfortunately.. Like the drawstring idea, don't see why they would add a hood to a jacket like that one.

Richard & Michael: Thanks for dropping some knowledge. Always nice to learn about the qualities of fabrics etc. from someone who knows.

[Patrick]

This just might become my Winter coat. I wish they had pictures of the hood though -- this is very important for me.

[James]

I just picked up a pretty dope Woolrich sweater, from their John Rich & Bros. extension (which I haven't seen you post anything regarding. It seems to be their Italian-based branch?)

In any event, it's a light camel-colored felted wool v neck with red plaid elbow patches. The construction of it is pretty impressive.

[Ronan]

Thanks for the explanation Michael and Richard - £385 is pretty steep, but as a comparison the wool winter Upland is retailing at £449 from Oi Polloi.

[Patrick]

I have no experiecnce with Woolrich Woolen Mills. What would the cut be like on this jacket? My fear is that it would be too bulky. I would get a small if I were to buy it, by the way.

[greenjeans]

I saw the upland jacket the other day. It's not really all that bulky, although I was looking at a small on the hanger. Slimmer than I thought it would be for sure. But I'm sure there's dudes on here who would know better than I.