Men's Homme Bomber Jacket

The bomber is the most borrowed shape in menswear and almost all of them are made in nylon, because nylon is what the original was and because a light shell is what the shape was engineered around. This one is fifty-two percent wool, thirty-one percent polyester, and seventeen percent rayon, which is a blend built to do three separate jobs in a heavy cloth. The wool gives it warmth and body and a matte surface that reads as a coat rather than as sportswear. The polyester is doing the structural work, holding the shape through the shoulder and the hem where a pure wool of this weight would eventually give. The rayon is the least obvious and the most interesting: at seventeen percent it softens the hand and adds enough fall that a heavyweight jacket still drapes at the sleeve instead of standing off the arm. Then there is the color, which is the part of this jacket that is actually about Comme des Garçons. It is black outside, and orange at the collar and through the lining, so the only person who sees the color decision is the person wearing it. Made in Japan.