Deluxe.

Images/via bridgetokyo.com

With the weather getting worse and worse, and temperatures dropping by the day, I’ve decided it’s about time I invested in clothes in which I can rug up. It’s time to get serious. No more of this tights and light layers stuff – I’m talking warmer, sturdier items to brave the outdoors in.

Now, because I can’t seem to ‘do’ coats (I don’t know why, I just can’t), and doubling up cardigans just doesn’t seem to be cutting it, I’ve found the perfect solution. This jacket:

Okay, firstly let’s acknowledge the fact that I look like a complete tool in this photo. I know this but I’m posting it anyway. Get over it. Onto the jacket:

It’s pretty casual, but I’m a pretty casually dressed person. I really like baseball jackets and this one is awesome. I found it at Quarters. It’s by Japanese brand, ‘Deluxe‘ and it’s $550.00… This is a litttttlllle steep and it goes completely against my financial diet, but hear me out (read: hear me try to justify spending the money). It’s cooooooool! It increases my cool level from 3 to a maybe 3.5, and my thug level to maybe a 1.5 from o… Okay maybe not, but it’s warm. And it’s got pockets. And it doesn’t cost as much as Zambesi’s (beautiful) version of the baseball jacket (see below) that I have been coveting the last few months, so it acts as a kind of substitute jacket. Or something. Oh, and best of best of all, it has the words ‘Chain Gang’ embroidered below the left hand pocket! Ha!

The Zambesi Jacket I want. Image/www.zambesi.co.nz

So what do you think? Buy the jacket, or just accept the fact that I’m not gangsterrrr enough for it no matter how many times I pull the fingers and various other hand gestures?