Chore jacket
Straight-cut work jacket with three patch pockets, traditionally made of cotton canvas or moleskin. Its model is the French work jacket, classically in blue. It is robust and unfussy and goes with jeans, chinos, T-shirt and sweatshirt. For wool trousers it is usually too rough.
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Related terms
- Sport coatSingle-breasted jacket with lapels that is worn without matching trousers.
- Double-breasted jacketJacket with overlapping fronts and two rows of buttons, usually with peak lapels.
- OvershirtA garment between shirt and jacket: cut like a shirt, but made of a sturdier fabric such as wool or twill and meant to be worn over a T-shirt or knitwear.
- HarringtonShort, light jacket with a stand collar and a buttoned tab, raglan sleeves and knit cuffs at hem and sleeves, classically with a checked lining.
- BlousonShort jacket that ends in a band at the waist, usually with a zipper.
- Mac coatPlain, single-breasted raincoat without a belt and epaulettes, usually knee-length and made of cotton gabardine.