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A jacket is a lightweight, waist-length coat that may be worn by adults or children. Some jackets are fashionable, while others serve as protective clothing. A jacket is a garment for the upper body: it typically has sleeves, and fastens in the front or slightly on the side, and it is generally lighter, tighter-fitting and less insulating than a coat, which is outerwear. Jackets can be made from a wide variety of materials, and down jackets, leather jackets, sport coats and windbreakers are popular types. The word jacket comes from the French word jaquette. This page explains how a jacket differs from a coat and describes the main jacket types.
A jacket is a lightweight, waist-length coat that may be worn by adults or children. Some jackets are fashionable, while others serve as protective clothing.
A jacket is a garment for the upper body. Jackets & coats have differences. A jacket typically has sleeves, and fastens in the front or slightly on the side.
A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and less insulating than a coat, which is outerwear.
Jackets can be made from a wide variety of materials. Down jackets, leather jackets, sport coats, and windbreakers are popular types.
Learn more about the differences between jackets & coats.
Types of jackets
Reefing jacket (or reefer)
Windbreaker (or windcheater)
The word jacket comes from the French word jaquette.
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The types in the jacket list divide by purpose. Dress jackets are cut like the top half of a suit: the blazer, a tailored jacket worn with non-matching trousers, and the sports jacket, patterned and less formal, made to be worn as a separate. Weather jackets answer wind and cold: the windbreaker or windcheater, a light shell that blocks wind; the down jacket, insulated with down filling; and the leather jacket, whose hide blocks wind and abrasion. Working and protective jackets are equipment as much as clothing: the flak jacket protects the torso, the life jacket keeps the wearer afloat, and the reefer or reefing jacket is the heavy short coat of sailors. The straitjacket belongs to the list by construction — a front- or back-fastening upper-body garment — though its purpose is restraint, and the jerkin is the family's historical member, the sleeveless leather jacket of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
What unites the family is proportion. A jacket ends at the waist or hip and is built for movement and layering: worn over a shirt or sweater, opened and closed through the day, and made in almost any material from suit wool to nylon shell to hide. Once a garment lengthens toward the knee, adds insulation as its main purpose, and is meant as the final outer layer, it has crossed into the coat category — the boundary this definition rests on, and the reason so many garments in the coat list, from the trench coat to the parka, have jacket-length cousins in this one.
A jacket is a lightweight, waist-length garment for the upper body. A jacket typically has sleeves, and fastens in the front or slightly on the side.
A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and less insulating than a coat, which is outerwear. Some jackets are fashionable, while others serve as protective clothing.
Popular types include down jackets, leather jackets, sport coats and windbreakers. The jacket family also includes the blazer, flak jacket, jerkin, life jacket, reefing jacket or reefer, sports jacket and straitjacket.