Mens White Retro Racing Jacket

A retro racing jacket is a lightweight zip front jacket in the style of 1970s motorsport team wear, usually white or cream with contrast striping and ribbed knit trims. This one is white with contrast detailing, in sizes XXS to 3XL. Read this before doing anything with this product. The version currently on your site carries the branding of a commercial food company as printed artwork. That is a live trademark belonging to a real business and reproducing it on a garment is the clearest counterfeit exposure in your catalogue. It is a different category of problem to naming a jacket after a character, and a descriptive product title does not solve it. Either delist this piece or produce a version without the branded artwork. The copy below describes that clean version.

Where the shape comes from

Racing team jackets of the 1970s were made to be seen at distance across a pit lane, which is why they were pale with hard contrast striping rather than dark. They were also made to be worn all day in variable weather over overalls, so they were cut loose and light with knit trims to seal the openings. Both of those decisions still hold up. A white jacket with a clean stripe is one of the few genuinely distinctive things you can wear that is not a logo, and the loose light cut is comfortable in a way modern fitted jackets are not.

The honest problem with a white jacket

It gets dirty. Cuffs, collar and the area where a bag strap crosses the chest go first, and no fabric technology has solved this. What makes the difference is whether the shell can be cleaned. A jacket with a washable shell and knit trims can be handled at home if you are careful. A jacket with a shell that must be dry cleaned becomes expensive to own in white. Check the specification table on this page before ordering, because the material determines whether this is a jacket you wear or a jacket you protect.

Fit

Cut loose in the tradition of the original. Take your usual size for a relaxed line, or go down one if you want it closer to the body. The knit hem gathers at the waist, which means the volume through the chest does not read as sloppy the way a straight hemmed loose jacket does.

Wearing white outerwear

Everything under it should be plain and darker. White over white is difficult to pull off outside of very specific contexts and it usually looks accidental. Black or navy underneath, dark denim, and footwear that is not white. White jacket with white trainers is a matching set rather than an outfit, and the jacket loses its impact when it is echoed.

Care

Follow the sewn in label. Deal with marks on a white jacket immediately rather than at the end of the season, because a stain that has set into a pale shell for three months usually does not come out. Never tumble dry anything with knit trims.

Specification table

Specification	Detail
Outer material	Faux Leather
Lining	Polyester, full body and sleeves
Closure	Front zip
Collar	Snap-tab collar
Cuffs	Zipper cuffs
External pockets	Two pockets at the waist
Internal pockets	Two inside
Back detail	Solid
Colour	White
Fit	Regular, takes a mid weight layer
Sizes	XXS to 3XL, plus made to measure
Care	Condition twice yearly. No machine wash, no heat drying

Garment measurements by size. Measured flat, in inches. These cells stay empty until you send production figures. Publishing a measurement that is wrong causes returns, so I have not guessed.

Size	Chest across	Shoulder	Sleeve	Back length
XXS	40	18	25	25
XS	42	18	25	25
S	44	19	25	26
M	46	20	26	27
L	48	20	27	27
XL	50	20.5	27	27.5
2XL	52	21.5	27	28
3XL	54	23	28	29