Blue and White Varsity Jacket, Snap Front

Blue and White Varsity Jacket, Snap Front

Royal blue wool with ivory sleeves, striped at every opening — this is the varsity jacket built to the book. Blue-and-white ribbing bands the collar, cuffs, and waistband, white snaps run the placket with a snap tab closing the hem, and the slanted welt pockets carry a white lip that echoes the sleeves. The body wool is matte and dense, the kind that makes royal blue read rich rather than bright, and the back panel is one clean sweep of it.

The stripes deserve a word, because they carry more history than decoration usually gets. On a traditional letterman jacket, stripes wrapped around one sleeve marked years played or a captain's rank, while the striped ribbing at the collar, cuffs, and hem was always decorative — carrying the school colors around the jacket's edges. This one keeps the decorative set and leaves the sleeves clean, so the jacket honors the code without claiming a rank.

Specifications

Fit & Sizing

Cut classic: square through the shoulders, straight through the body, with the ribbed waistband holding the hem at the beltline the way letterman jackets have always sat.

Model reference: Shown on a 6'1" (185 cm), 170 lb (77 kg) model in size Medium.

Stay with your usual size — the wool gives enough for a hoodie underneath on cold days. Check your chest and sleeve numbers against the size chart before ordering; snaps forgive an extra layer, not an extra size.

Why This Jacket

• True school colors — royal and white is the pairing more American schools wear than any other
• Bright without loud — blue carries the full varsity look at half the volume of red
• Matte royal, no shine — wool gives the blue a depth that glossy shells flatten out
• White-lipped pockets — the welt trim ties the front to the sleeves and keeps it symmetrical
• No school required — all the colors, none of the affiliation; it belongs to whoever wears it

Care Instructions

Wool copes with weather better than its reputation suggests — the fibers naturally shed a light rain — but what happens afterward decides everything. Shake the jacket out the moment you're inside, then hang it on a wide hanger in a room-temperature spot until fully dry; never drape it over a radiator or use a dryer, because heat meeting wet wool is how a Medium becomes a Small. Once dry, five seconds of brushing lifts the nap back to matte, and the ivory sleeves stay bright with an occasional spot check.