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Five-Pocket Chore Jacket
About Drake's jackets: Drake's outerwear draws on late-1800s French workwear and militaria, and the chore jacket is its signature piece — offered season after season in an unusually wide range of fabrics and sizes, alongside field jackets, waxed coveralls, suede, and overcoats.
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Our take
The Five-Pocket Chore Jacket is Drake's signature outerwear piece: a French-workwear pattern cut boxy and roomy, made in Portugal and run in a rotating set of fabrics — cotton duck canvas, heavy twill, selvedge denim, linen. Reviewers single out the breadth of cloths and sizes and the generous cut that layers easily; the name is a nod to the matching trousers, and the jacket actually carries more pockets than five. Caveats: the patch ticket pocket divides opinion, and it costs several times what a plain workwear chore does.
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The details
- Material
- The duck canvas version is a robust 12.6oz tightly woven cotton duck made in Portugal, and the line rotates through selvedge denim, heavy cotton twill, linen, and corduroy.
- Fit
- The cut is deliberately generous and boxy in the old workwear mold, not slimmed down, with rollable sleeves. Drake's says it fits true to size, and one reviewer who tried two adjacent sizes found little difference between them, so choose based on how much you plan to layer underneath.
- Quality
- Drake's builds the line with flat, raw seams and triple stitching, with rivet buttons on the workwear fabrics, in cloths chosen to age and patinate rather than wear out. Independent reviewers treat it as a benchmark for the category and note consistently strong stock depth across its seven sizes.
- Best for
- Someone who wants one hard-wearing, boxy casual layer to wear over knitwear or a shirt for three seasons and accepts luxury-tier pricing for cloth selection and cut.
- Care
- The cotton duck and denim versions handle a cold machine wash and line dry, with fading and creasing part of the intended patina, while the linen, wool, and suede runs need gentler fabric-specific care.
How Drake's jackets hold up overall
Owners and menswear reviewers treat Drake's jackets — the five-pocket chore jackets and Games blazers especially — as well-made, fabric-led pieces, and an editorial comparison of luxury chore coats found the label's range of cloths, sizes and availability consistently stronger than its peers, with fabric-specific details like snap cuffs on suede versions and rivet buttons on denim ones. The cut runs relaxed by design: forum owners describe Games blazers as slouchy and slightly oversized, with sleeves that frequently need shortening. Pricing draws pushback — commenters on a corduroy Games blazer review argued the fit would have to be perfect to justify the outlay on a casual jacket.
- Strengths
- Reviewers credit the line's breadth of fabrics and its relaxed casual-tailoring cut, executed with detailing matched to each cloth.
- Watch out for
- Owners report erratic sizing between styles, sleeves that run long, and prices that even fans say are hard to justify.
- Sizing
- Fit is intentionally relaxed and inconsistent across styles — one owner fit a 38 Games blazer but needed a 40 in the suede chore jacket — so check each style's own measurements before buying.
About Drake's's jackets line as a whole. Sources: Luxury chore coats compared – Permanent Style · Drake's corduroy Mk.I Games Blazer: Review – Permanent Style · How does the fit of this Drake's games blazer look? | Styleforum · The unofficial Drake's London Appreciation Thread | Page 615 | Styleforum
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