The Workers Club combination jacket at Mr Porter - quality, durable outerwear

As the weather cools and gets wetter our thoughts turn to outerwear. A jacket that will be useful whether wet or dry, cool or freezing cold. Mr Porter recently sent me a combination jacket from The Workers Club that may provide an answer. Comprising three separate garments, layered together they stylishly provide several options to cover many weather conditions.

The jacket, down jacket and gilet worn together. One of twelve combinations

The collection includes a water-repellant canvas outer shell jacket with taped seams, check wool gilet and reversible down filled liner, which can be zipped into each other to form a fully water and wind resistant jacket. I've been trying to work out how many options these combinations give you. I reckon it's at least twelve depending on how you like to layer the gilet and down jacket. 

The outer shell jacket comes in three colours, navy, orange and olive/navy

Mr Porter describes this combination as, "really simple, but the designers hope this will be an item every man will have in his wardrobe". 

The wool check gilet

The designers are husband and wife team, Charlotte and Adam Cameron, who founded The Workers Club (TWC) with a view to providing quality clothing for men who like to buy less, but better. A laudable aim, and one which more men are buying into. It's good to see Mr Porter supporting smaller businesses.

The down jacket is reversible

The jacket and its various parts are beautifully made, very high quality, durable, comfortable and stylish in a rugged, outdoor sort of way. It went well (I thought) with my experimental beard too. I look forward to seeing what else TWC come up with in future.

Jacket: £495, wool gilet: £250, down jacket: £360. See Mr Porter for more information and to buy. To find out more about TWC (they do a similar range of womenswear) click here to see their website.

With thanks to my lovely daughter Cate for the photography in difficult light conditions!