Engineered Garments jacket for sale here. Engineered Garments, designed by Daiki Suzuki and under the umbrella of Japanese company Nepenthes, manufactures their products exclusively in the United States, and almost entirely in New York City. They aim to utilize some of the high quality materials and services available in the city and keep their factories going. One of their other main ideals is to update classic workwear pieces with a more modern approach. That’s often manifested in high quality materials, and sometimes more fashion-forward designs as well.
This is a pretty unique piece from the fall-winter 2021 collection. Fabric here is what EG calls a “fake melton”: it is a custom textile for EG, meant to evoke a heavy melton wool. Exterior fabric is actually an 87% polyester, 10% rayon, 3% polyurethane blend. This sounds pretty different from a wool, but the execution is surprisingly excellent, where the fabric is very soft and comfortable but at the same time has very good heat retention. It is similar to a woven fleece, but looks and feels very much like a melton wool. It is similarly water resistant, is able to avoid the issues of piling often associated with wool products, and no need to worry about moth damage or anything like that.
Silhouette here is an EG staple: the shawl collar coverall. They have released a number of iterations of these jackets, although this particular one with the fake melton fabric was only released for the 2021aw season. Fit is similar to a classic French coverall jacket, tweaked as usual. EG have also updated the fit, where this jacket is very relaxed, much like a lot of current EG offerings. Aside from the fact that a lot of labels are going for a more relaxed look these days, it also makes practical sense, where you can easily layer under the jacket for especially cold days. Even though this is an XS it can easily fit a standard medium with a relaxed look.
Details include the shawl collar that can be turned up in colder weather and buttoned, removable buttons down the front placket, pockets all reinforced on the interior, as well as a convenient rear pocket for extra storage. As you can hopefully see a lot of thought has gone into all aspects of this jacket, from fabric to silhouette to details. Retail was about $600 in Japan, and this design is now completely sold out. Get it here much more reasonably.
Size is labeled an XS and fits relaxed as noted. This can easily work for a standard medium. I measure the chest at 23”, shoulders at 19”, length at 27.5” from the base of the neck, and sleeves at 23” from the shoulder. The piece comes in lightly used, very good shape, with no holes, tears or stains. Made in the USA.
Shipping from Japan to anywhere will be $30.