If you've run into Sid in warmer months, you've likely seen him in a jacket like this — there's almost nothing we love more than a houndstooth. This one is woven in Italy from a blend of linen and what we call "rustic silk," which gives the fabric a dry, crunchy hand with lots of character. The slubby yarns bring texture while the silk adds a soft sheen. (We love the fabric so much we used it for a matching pair of trousers, so you can wear both pieces together as a full suit.) The No. 3 jacket make has full canvas construction—the sine qua non of tailoring—with a special, structured three-layer canvas that’ll mold and meld to your body over time. And our Virgil model has a natural shoulder, a 3-roll-2 lapel, and a shorter body with no front darts at all. Think old-school sack jacket, but sexier. It’s got a slightly more American feel than the Kincaid or the Landry, but just like all of our tailored clothing, it’s designed to take you from Mississippi to Manhattan to Milan without looking or feeling out of place.
Italian houndstooth hopsack
52% silk/48% linen
dark horn buttons
half-lined in cupro
full canvas construction with a 3-layer structured canvas
natural shoulder
special seam slippage construction at center back
3-roll-2-button front
undarted front
two flap pockets, ticket pocket, and welted chest pocket
two interior chest pockets, pen pocket, lower card/phone pocket
This jacket comes unfinished, which means it needs to be tailored before you wear it! Specifically, the sleeves are unhemmed, without cut buttonholes, at the time of purchase. Your local tailor can hem them to your perfect length and attach the buttons (we include eight — four for each sleeve — in the pocket of the jacket.) If you’re near one of our stores, our in-house tailors can also take care of this.