When This Waxed Canvas Jacket Hits 50% Off, Barbour Starts Panicking

Are you, by chance, the last GQ reader on the planet without a waxed canvas jacket? Great to meet you, sir, and thanks for swinging by. Lest you feel unwelcome, though, there is a reason we’re prone to waxing not-so-eloquent on these waxy-as-hell toppers: they’ve been keeping menswear’s upper crust fly and dry for approximately 200 years and counting.

If you’ve heard this spiel before (something something “centuries-old pedigree”, something something “countryside estate sold separately”), feel free to stop reading immediately, and skip straight to the maintenance section at the bottom of this guide. But on the off chance you’re itching for a way to kill a quick five minutes on a drudgy evening, indulge us, won’t you, for a hot second.

Right this very moment, one of the best bang-for-your-buck waxed jackets on the market is a walloping half off, which is terrible news for anyone long on Barbour—and tremendous news for any frostbitten fellas looking for an impenetrable coat of their own.

Thanks to Huckberry’s just-launched winter sale, the retailer’s handsome, hardy, and altogether heirloom-grade riff on the genre is at one of the lowest prices we’ve ever clocked it, bringing the cost of all that waxy, flannel-lined goodness down to a gentlemanly $185. (You’ll have to cough up a little more depending on the color you’re after.)

Crucially, Huckberry’s version comes equipped with more storage space than a filing cabinet, plus a nifty detachable hood, a savvy design flourish that compensates for the Bedale’s—the ne plus ultra of the category—sole oversight.

Flint and Tinder might not boast quite the same pedigree in the space as its tony, royal-approved British counterpart—Barbour is to waxed canvas what Kleenex is to tissues—but it does count an elite roster of zombie-fighting zaddies among its fans. (Captain America is a customer, too.) Feeling especially magnanimous? Text the news to a cold, trembling homie who hasn’t heard our waxed canvas jacket spiel either, and there’ll be two new converts lurking in the Recommends DMs by next week.