Nyla Jacket and Nancy
One of the great joys of my new found business is designing and developing new jackets. My goal is to make beautiful perfect jackets and make the people wearing them look good. My other goal is to reflect the historical perfection and the uncompromising quality that early jacket makers imbued in their designs. My beautiful wife had been bugging me to come up with a jacket that would reflect her sense of style and at the same time have a cut and design that had some historical panache. The Nyla is the prototype jacket that is in the works. Nance named it for one of the wives in Nanook of the North…the famed early Canadian documentary on the hard life of Inuit in the arctic of Canada. We took the prototype on a test run trip to the rugged north tundra of Newfoundland. The jacket spent a week travelling the historic desolation of Trepassey and remote fishing outports, exploring ancient light houses and British and Irish settlements. Nancy was happy. I gave my vintage wool and Carhartts a run as well.
