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Browse all Inis Meáin jackets & outerwear →Cashmere Relaxed Jacket
The verdict
Fit
Relaxed cut implies generous through the body and sleeves with a softer, less athletic drape. Likely runs true to size or slightly loose.
Quality
Cashmere at this tier means soft, insulating, durable fiber with careful finishing. Relaxed construction suggests comfort-focused design.
Is the price fair?
At $1,395 for pure cashmere, this is luxury-minus pricing—still very expensive but positioned as wearable rather than strictly formal.
Best for
Men who want luxury cashmere comfort in a relaxed shape suitable for weekends and travel.
Care
Cashmere: hand wash cold, lay flat to dry, store moth-safe.
What owners report about Inis Meáin jackets & outerwear
Inis Meáin's jackets are knitted pieces — a linen pub jacket and a heavier storm jacket — made by hand on the Aran island where the company knits everything. Press coverage and a long-running Styleforum thread treat the line as top-tier knitwear: owners describe pieces still in perfect shape after years of wear, and the storm jacket is reported as the brand's most detailed and most expensive item. The recurring gripes are the steep prices and sizing that shifts between models and between regional versions of the same garment.
- Strengths
- Owners and press consistently report hand-finished, made-in-Ireland knitting in high-grade yarns that holds up over years of wear.
- Watch out for
- Prices run high and owners report noticeable variation in listed sizes across identical models made for different markets, so fit is the main thing that goes wrong.
- Sizing
- Sizing is not consistent across the line — some knits run true while others run small, and European, US and Japanese versions of the same model can carry different listed sizes — so check the garment-specific measurements before ordering.
About Inis Meáin's jackets & outerwear line as a whole. Sources: Inis Meain knitwear | Styleforum · Cometh the hour, cometh the Meáin jacket – The Irish Times · Inis Meain knitwear | Page 27 | Styleforum