RRL

Canvas Ellis Jacket – Navy

$590

Slot: Outer
Formality: 2 / 5
Warmth: 3 / 5
Retail: $590

The Canvas Ellis Jacket – Navy is a chore coat from RRL, $590 at retail. FW26 pigment-washed cotton canvas engineer jacket, contrast corduroy collar.

Mid-winter with something under it; on its own it runs out somewhere around freezing. It reads casual without reading sloppy.

Tagged workwear and Americana, and down for everyday, weekends, cold outdoors and work — those are the occasions the builder will actually put it in front of you for.

Look 11 · Ranch Hands

Issue 01 covered American heritage twice and never once said the name both of those looks were answering. This is that gap, closed. RRL is what happens when workwear gets a couture budget and refuses to admit it — Ralph's most personal line, in sunfaded plaids, 15.9 oz selvedge, and engineer jackets pigment-washed until they look inherited. The Ellis canvas jacket is the anchor and the Farrell plaid is the shirt it was designed around; both arrive washed, which is what separates RRL from the houses that sell you the work of breaking things in. The shawl cardigan is what makes this an outfit rather than a uniform: a long knit between shirt and jacket, which only works because the Ellis is cut long enough to carry it. Konseal boots, because the fit is period enough already.

SkipThe Cable Knit Shawl Cardigan at $595. Magnificent, and Buck Mason's felted pieces do the third-layer job at half the money — put the difference toward the jeans.

Read the look in full →

The rest of the fit

One garment per remaining slot, chosen the way the builder chooses: occasion overlap, formality that holds across the fit, warmth that agrees with itself, and the layering rules that stop a collar ending up under a hood. Head to toe with the Canvas Ellis Jacket – Navy: $2,105 at retail.