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Browse all Inis Meáin jackets & outerwear →Linen Relaxed Jacket
The verdict
Fit
Relaxed cut implies fuller through the chest and sleeves with a softer drape than the pub style. Likely runs truer to size or slightly generous.
Quality
Linen hand-looms from Inis Meáin, relaxed tailoring. Expect the same fiber integrity and hand finishing as their other pieces.
Is the price fair?
At $745, you're at premium-plus territory. The higher price reflects the relaxed construction and likely year-round wearability.
Best for
Men seeking a laid-back linen jacket with serious craftsmanship—good for warm-season layering or solo wear in mild weather.
Care
Linen wrinkles are part of the aesthetic; gentle hand wash or dry clean, air dry, minimal ironing.
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