Menswear Guide: The Peregrine Bexley Jacket
Consistency is key in many areas of life.
Consistent is the midfielder your team can’t drop because you know you’ll always get a 7/10 performance. It lends itself to loyalty and influences many of the decisions you make on a daily basis. You take the same route to work because it’s consistently the quickest route. It’s reliable, a commodity becoming rarer in today’s economy of anything.
In the 6 years since our doors opened, we’ve seen jackets from brands you know inside out, some you’ve never heard of others that are just consistently good. Brands that offer little fanfare online and are happy for the quality of their product to do the talking.
Peregrine are one of those brands.
A few years back, I wrote to them to offer our services and a few conversations later saw us featuring on their website as their recommended aftercare service. This was a massive step for us as a new company partnering with one born in 1796.
The company is now 8 generations deep into the family tree with founder Thomas Glover starting up as a hand frame knitter in Wigston Magma, which can be found just outside of Leicester.
In more recent years, you may have seen the brand popping up on some of the world’s biggest names from Tom Hardy to Jamie Dornan to Glenn Powell to Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. That’s quite a platform, but you won’t have seen too much in the way of fireworks aside from the odd social media post.
Some (lots of) brands cut corners to increase profit, some brands churn out collab after collab to stay relevant and others disappear off the face of the earth. Peregrine just keep making quality products, especially when it comes to jackets.
We were very kindly sent a Bexley jacket to put through its paces. You will hopefully recall from our last article that we only work with brands and products we like and you can rest assured that this is no hidden marketing ploy. We already knew how great a jacket this was.
The Bexley is a really unique jacket when it comes to its design. Many brands take the usual blueprint and don’t offer much more, whereas this is something new. In layman’s terms, it sits somewhere between a Belstaff fit with the durability of Filson.
We chose the mustard colour as we’ve seen it at the other end of its lifecycle and it ages beautifully. The marks and scuffs you only earn through wearing are more visible due to the lighter colourway.
Since it landed, it’s been my daily wearer. I’ve worn it for long walks in the woods, to a meal in a fancy restaurant, many times on the school run and through at least 3 downpours. The biggest pull for me on the jacket is simply how versatile it really is.
If we’ve met, you know I can talk fabric and details for as long as anyone will listen but let’s keep it brief and simple here. The fabric is thick, really thick in comparison to the other brands of jackets you are thinking about as you read this. Better still, it will mould to my body the more I wear it.
The pockets wrap over at the hip and are a great detail, whilst also offering more space for whatever you carry, be it the hipster knife you want Instagram to think you carry or the actual things you do carry. The collar sits high to keep the weather at bay when you really need the protection and the cut hangs just above the upper thigh.
And just to round things off nicely, the jacket is already forming a wonderful patina. Yes, I may be leaning into every bush I see but the weather has helped to create the beginnings of something that I know is going to look amazing by Spring.
The Bexley is a really great addition to any wax jacket wardrobe either as a stand alone piece or in addition to a collection.