For the walk between buildings
Topcoats, overshirts and fine-gauge knits, cut to your body — the layer you wear from the garage to the boardroom, and keep on once the meeting starts.
A coat has to fit two bodies — yours, and yours in a jacket. Off the rack, it only ever fits one.
What we make
Five layers that close out the wardrobe — the heavy coats through to the knit.
Topcoat
Knee-length, single-breasted, clean through the back — the coat that goes over a suit five days a week.
Overcoat
Heavier cloth, fuller through the chest, longer through the skirt — for the stretch of January that doesn't let up.
Polo coat
Double-breasted, patch pockets, half-belt across the back. It carries a Saturday and a Monday equally well.
Overshirt
A shirt with a jacket's shoulder — open over a knit on Friday, closed under the topcoat on Tuesday.
Fine-gauge knitwear
Crewnecks, quarter-zips and rollnecks in fine gauge, so they sit under a jacket without bulk at the armhole.
Every choice, made with you.
At the fitting you decide how it closes, how far it runs, and how it finishes.
Drafted over the jacket
beneath it
A coat pattern begins where the jacket pattern ends — room drafted through the chest, armhole and back so a canvassed jacket sits inside it without a crease at the blade. The chest is built over a floating canvas, and the collar is padded by hand, so it stands when you turn it up and lies flat when you don't. Buttons are shanked for the thickness of the cloth, and the back and sleeve seams are left generous — a coat is worn for years, and it should be able to be let out.
Cloth for a Chicago winter
Coating from Loro Piana, Dormeuil and Scabal — cashmere and cashmere blends where you want drape, hard-finished wool where you want the weather to run off it. We lay it over your own jacket in daylight, and you see it on the mannequin before anything is cut.
See the fabrics we work in →Where it lives
Where these pieces spend their time.
December on Adams
Long enough to cover the jacket, closed high enough that the wind stops at your collar.
The early flight
An overshirt over a fine knit carries the aisle seat, the car, and a ten o'clock meeting.
Saturday, no jacket
A rollneck under the polo coat. The same pattern discipline, none of the formality.
Bring the jacket it covers
Start with a conversation — at our Chicago studio, at your office, or by video from anywhere.