Interesting: http://www.baracuta-g9.com/v2/shop/view_product.php?id=721
Regular: http://www.baracuta-g9.com/v2/shop/view_product.php?id=223
Nothing wrong with the G9. The G4 is just that bit less obvious.
J.
Interestingly, I recently bought and returned the Japanese Ivory G4 - fit just a little too snugly. I have a regular G4 in natural that I end up wearing a little more than my G9s. Definately a bit less obvious. I really like the details (button sleeves etc) on the G4 and find it a slightly smarter alternative to the G9. Hard to beat with heavy (Paraboot/Trickers/Suede chukka) footwear.
I've tried a couple times over the past year to buy a G4 from the baracuta shop - the online shop shows they have size 46 but they dont have stock. I guess I'll have to slum it in my G9.
Might be worth a phone call - they sometimes have things in stock that the website indicates otherwise.....
Hello. Apologies to all for using my first post to have a moan, but surely Baracuta owe it to the great John Simon not to re-dub him 'JOHN RICHMOND' in big bold letters on their timeline 60's webpage. Tut tut.
All the best,
Staceyboy
...or for me to dub him 'Simon' rather than Simons for that matter! Oh dear.
This is a G9 but I absolutely love the colour, don't think I ever saw one ? ( not on anybody's back anyway ) :
http://www.stuartslondon.com/product/Light%20Jackets%20-%20Coats/Baracuta/Slimfit%20harrington%20G9%20BN/#
^^^ the website call it "cobalt blue", which I've never heard of. Looks like the "navy" blue (as opposed to the classic dark navy) which isnt a dark navy but more like, cobalt.
A Strachan fave. Wear it in good health.
And what of the Wind Cheater? Just a hip length Zipper Jacket with an ordinnary collar?
And the Warm Up Jacket? Ditto the above in Nylon.
Maybe the jacket that makes less of a 'statement' makes more of a statement?
There is a sense that various Zipper jackets & THE Shoes are the keys to the off-duty look... Maybe?
Ivy Americana and all that.
London Fog tends to be severe old man stuff: as opposed to reckless youth. 'Wind Cheaters' were worn by children whose parents could not afford to buy them anything warmer. Warm-up jackets tend to look cheap and horrible. A few American made examples turned up recently in a local charity shop. Interestingly, they did not hang around long. The McGregor Drizzler is still a key jacket; still relatively unknown. The Anti-Freeze has a touch of mard-arse James Dean about it. Find one if you can.
Just received a very handsome G4 from Staceyboy. 100% cotton, English made navy Baracuta. Could have been made to order.
I just realised that I used to have 3 or 4 jackets that looked like the Slim fit G4. I had no idea they had a name or some status.
Mine were just cheap and cheerful ones I picked up here because I liked a light jacket for summer if it got a bit cool to wear with chinos etc.
I'd like to pick up a tan/beige one and a navy one but the prices I see on that Baracuta site look way too much for the thing I'm after.
Is there other places that sell similar stuff? Or a few brands?
Drizzler jackets may suit. They were available cheap until recently:-
http://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod1208157
I like me Grenfell
Try as I might I cannot remember that jacket, although I remember wearing the London Fog in March 2012. They were (are still, I suppose) okay for pissing about in: buying jazz and having a sandwich and a couple of beers. If I saw one cheap in, say, 'grubby olive' (I rather like that) I might be tempted - so long as they were still around the £20 mark! Wouldn't mind a London Fog raincoat as remembered from the old black and white ad. Didn't it feature a rather hard-looking chap straddling a VW or something of the kind? Yup, Anglo-Ivy. Maybe the best example, maybe not.
Grenfell. Got two and after more. Became my go to choice jackets. Good quality and available in a modern (just not baggy) fit. Nice to support the factory.