I am a little confounded by how I have a Barbour Beaufort jacket which is a men's size 40. It is way too big for me. Yet, I wore it through art school and many years after. I think it was a different time and wearing something oversized did not seem so odd then.
Still. It has been quite a while since I last wore the jacket. I think it was a rainstorm and I was certainly dry, but I did rattle around in it. So when I started the latest wave of clearing and organising, the jacket was on the to-go list. Bags of clothes went out, but I could never bring myself to send the jacket away.
Recently, I read Lizzie Garrett Mettler's blog, Tomboy Style, about "Worn-In Classics". Of course, I thought of the jacket. I had another look. It had been re-waxed a couple of months ago and looked almost as good as new. The sleeves and hem had been reinforced sometime years ago and there was a tear on one of the pockets... But these details gave the jacket its particular character.
Big as it is, the jacket is not going anywhere.
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