If, for some horrifying reason, you could only swaddle yourself in one jacket forever [shudders internally], Flint and Tinder’s waxed trucker jacket would be a solid bet. The perennial bestseller was already a hot-ticket item before its cameo on HBO’s The Last of Us, where post-apocalyptic baddie Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal, in the midst of a well-documented glow-up of his own) has to confront the exact same nightmare. Okay, the real nightmare is the end of human existence, but the guy doesn’t have time to go shopping either, and that sounds equally terrifying.
Silver screen cosign aside, though, the jacket isn’t just Huckberry’s all-time best-selling jacket— it’s Huckberry’s all-time best-selling garment. For an e-comm operation that slings everything from burly footwear to tasteful home goods to hardcore outdoors gear, that’s saying a lot. So when Huckberry introduced a winterized version that swaps the flannel lining for ultra-toasty Japanese wool, we could already hear the plaudits rolling in from the notoriously-finicky Outerwear Academy.
We’re pretty sure there isn’t an awards ceremony for jackets, but if there was, this one’s acceptance speech would probably go something like this: “Wow, thank you. It’s really such an honor to be up on this stage. First and foremost, I couldn’t have done this without my 8.25 oz. waxed cotton fabric: you’re tough as all hell but surprisingly soft, and still somehow manage to keep me dry. I swear you just get better with age.
And to my heavy-duty wool lining—you keep me warm through even the most blisteringly cold days. Oh, and I can’t forget all my pockets: the hand warmer pockets, the duo of chest pockets, the interior media pocket. Without you, I would be just another pretty jacket with a perfectly tailored silhouette. You make me more pragmatic without compromising my fit…” [Music begins to swell, jacket is gently ushered off the stage.]
Like we said, we’re fairly certain that this awards ceremony doesn’t exist. But then again, we were pretty sure that a cameo on TLOU would send inventory levels of this burly trucker to zero for the foreseeable future. And yet here we are, with a near full-size run of the jacket’s toastier sibling in the exact color that Miller favors—for $90 less than usual, to boot. (You’ll have to cough up a little more depending on the color you’re after.)
The one thing we are sure about? A deal this good won’t stick around long. Head over to Huckberry to snag your own before a starving Cordycep (or, uh, anyone with a faster modem) buys up the remaining lot.
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