Cesare Attolini Castagne Brown Wool, Silk & Linen Melange Jacket

Discover the Cesare Attolini Castagne Brown Wool, Silk & Linen Melange Jacket. Castagne is the Italian word for chestnuts, and the colour earns the name: a warm, medium brown with enough depth to avoid reading flat, the melange construction adding a subtle variation across the surface that makes the cloth look different as it moves through different light. Wool provides the structure and body, linen keeps the hand dry and the weight honest for warmer months, and silk introduces a very faint luminosity that stops the brown from going muddy, the three fibres working together in the way only a well-considered blend can. The construction is pure Attolini: spalla camicia, the sleeve set by hand with that characteristic forward roll at the shoulder that no machine can replicate, the jacket half-lined to allow the cloth to breathe and drape without restriction. A 2.5-button closure, patch pockets at the hips and light brown horn buttons that sit in close harmony with the cloth rather than contrasting against it round out the details, the handmade buttonholes doing their quiet work as they always do. A jacket in this cloth and this colour asks very little of the wearer in terms of coordination and rewards accordingly. Attolini's ability to make a melange summer cloth feel considered rather than casual is, at this point, something of a house speciality.