Car Coat in Cotton

$990.00 $

A car coat in double-cloth cotton from Prato — woven at 520 g/m² in two interlocked layers, kept whole rather than split, then lined. The weight is immediate when you lift it from the hanger. The challenge with a fabric this deliberate is the silhouette: too much structure and it fights the cloth, too little and the coat loses its shape. The raglan sleeve required the most patience — a construction that only reads as effortless when the seam lies perfectly flat across the shoulder, and not before. Until nothing remained that didn't need to be there.

The difficulty with a fabric this deliberate is the shape it demands.

At 520 g/m², the double-cloth wants to lead. The challenge wasn't construction — it was restraint: keeping the silhouette clean enough that the fabric reads as intentional rather than heavy. The raglan sleeve was the most unforgiving test of this. A raglan either lies flat across the shoulder or it doesn't, and there is no alteration that fixes it after the fact — only a pattern that was right from the beginning. The pockets, the hem length, the placement of the horn buttons: each one calibrated against the weight of the cloth until the coat stopped being a problem to solve and became the thing it was always supposed to be.

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