For years the answer seemed obvious. The market has caught up, and the result is a far better version at a far wider range of prices. The market has caught up, and the result is a far better version at a far wider range of prices.

There is a version of this that is purely practical. What began as a working garment turned into a wardrobe fixture, and the reasons say more about how people dress now than about the garment itself. Cut properly, it does the quiet work of making everything around it look considered. The proportions are the whole argument: a centimetre either way and the effect collapses.

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It started, as these things often do, with a single detail. What began as a working garment turned into a wardrobe fixture, and the reasons say more about how people dress now than about the garment itself. It is not subtle, and it is not trying to be. The details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place.

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The material matters more than the label, though the label is what most people notice first.Mr. Nicklaus Swift I / Staff

What began as a working garment turned into a wardrobe fixture, and the reasons say more about how people dress now than about the garment itself.

It started, as these things often do, with a single detail. It rewards restraint, which is exactly why it keeps being rediscovered. It rewards restraint, which is exactly why it keeps being rediscovered. It rewards restraint, which is exactly why it keeps being rediscovered. Worn badly it looks like a costume; worn well it barely registers, which is the point.

It started, as these things often do, with a single detail. What began as a working garment turned into a wardrobe fixture, and the reasons say more about how people dress now than about the garment itself. The details that survive are the ones that solved a problem in the first place.