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The Ojai Jacket
About Taylor Stitch’s jackets: Taylor Stitch's outerwear runs on natural fabrics — organic cotton twill, waxed and chipped canvas, corduroy, denim — in chore, trucker, and shirt-jacket shapes mostly between $170 and $300, with a steerhide leather jacket at the top of the range. The Ojai chore coat is the line's best-known and most-reviewed piece.
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Our take
The Ojai Jacket is Taylor Stitch's take on the French-style chore coat: an 8-oz, 100% organic cotton twill shell, washed so it feels broken-in out of the box, with ring-back buttons, a pen-slot chest pocket, and double-entry lower patch pockets. Reviewers like that it reads slimmer and more current than the usual boxy chore coat while staying unstructured and easy to layer. Caveats: the light single-layer cotton is not a winter jacket, colorways rotate seasonally, and it is made in China at a near-$200 price.
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- Material
- An 8-oz, 100% organic cotton foundation twill (the brand's stated spec), factory-washed for softness, with double-needle stitching and bar-tacked pocket stress points.
- Fit
- A loose, unstructured chore-coat cut that reviewers describe as slimmer and more modern than the style's norm; most owners take their usual size, though some with broader shoulders report the arms and shoulders run trim and prefer sizing up.
- Quality
- Construction reports are positive: ring-back buttons with brass pins and rings, bar-tacking at every pocket stress point, and double-needle seams throughout. It is made in China, which some reviewers flag at this price.
- Best for
- A three-season layering jacket for someone who wants a chore coat clean enough for office-casual wear without babying a heavy workwear fabric.
- Care
- Machine wash cold and tumble dry low, per Taylor Stitch's own guidance for the pre-washed cotton twill.
How Taylor Stitch jackets hold up overall
Reviewers who wore Taylor Stitch jackets hard report they hold up: one wore the waxed-canvas version while moving heavy patio stones and through a downpour and said it survived the friction and kept him surprisingly dry. The organic-cotton chore coats draw praise for detail work — ring-back buttons, functional cuff buttons, a pen slot in the chest pocket — with an 8-oz twill that reviewers describe as heavier than shirting but light enough for three-season wear. Complaints are modest: the waxed fabric arrives stiff, the chore-coat cut reads boxy, cuff hardware can scratch a watch, and the jackets are made in China at a price point where one reviewer would only buy on sale.
- Strengths
- Reviewers report the fabric survives genuinely hard use and the button and pocket detailing is better executed than typical work-jacket fare.
- Watch out for
- Waxed versions are stiff out of the box and need breaking in, chore coats run boxy and shapeless, and more than one reviewer suggests waiting for a sale rather than paying full price.
- Sizing
- Reviewers report the jackets fit true to Taylor Stitch's own size guide — one who sized down against the guide got a jacket "so snug that it wears more like a shirt," so follow the chart rather than second-guessing it.
About Taylor Stitch's jackets line as a whole. Sources: Why the Best Chore Jacket is Taylor Stitch's Ojai | Stridewise · Taylor Stitch Ojai Jacket – Everyday Wear · In-Depth Taylor Stitch Review - Is it worth it? | Irreverent Gent
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