{"id":1875,"date":"2025-01-11T10:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T10:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2025-01-11T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T10:43:23","slug":"youre-wearing-the-wrong-denim-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"You’re Wearing the Wrong Denim Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Close your eyes for a second and picture a denim jacket. No, really, go ahead\u2014I\u2019ll do it, too, to make you feel less awkward. This isn\u2019t some sort of trick: It\u2019s got two pockets, it\u2019s probably from Levi\u2019s, it\u2019s definitely a little cropped, and the very mention of it conjures a mood board\u2019s worth of style gods. Open your eyes. Would you believe it if I said we were picturing wildly different<\/em> jackets\u2014and the one you were picturing is, in fact, wrong?<\/p>\n

Not bad, per se, but wrong nevertheless. If I were a betting man, I\u2019d put good money on the fact that you were imagining a Levi\u2019s Type III jacket, an instant-classic trucker silhouette introduced in the early \u201860s. In the decades since, the Type III has become so ubiquitous it defines the category. (It is, after all, the jacket you were just picturing a moment ago.) But while the Type III is the denim jacket you\u2019re most likely to spot on the streets, it\u2019s not the only version Levi\u2019s made\u2014and it\u2019s far from the coolest one today.<\/p>\n

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Flint and Tinder<\/p>\n

Type 2 Denim Jacket<\/h3>\n

$198 <\/p>\n

Huckberry<\/p>\n

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Maison Margiela<\/p>\n

Faded Denim Jacket<\/h3>\n

$1,380 <\/p>\n

SSENSE<\/p>\n

That would be the middle child of the denim jacket family: the comparatively unloved Type II. Unveiled in 1953, just nine years before its younger sibling, the Type II features a vertical pleated front, waist adjuster tabs, and, crucially, two square flap pockets that sit a little lower on the chest. It\u2019s boxier than the slim-and-trim Type III, but just as cropped.<\/p>\n

The most famous Type II in menswear history belongs to Martin Sheen\u2019s character in Badlands<\/em>, but the most recent one to grab our attention was worn on the red carpet, when Kendrick Lamar took the Grammys stage in Maison Margiela, solidifying himself as one of this generation\u2019s cheekiest denim icons. K-Dot wore his Type II with matching jeans and a denim cap, in a riff on the Canadian Tuxedo that made for a sharp awards-show fit, and an indigo-soaked dagger through Drake\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

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Visvim<\/p>\n

Social Sculpture 101 Paint-Splattered Denim Jacket<\/h3>\n

$1,150 <\/p>\n

Mr Porter<\/p>\n

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Levi's<\/p>\n

1953 Type II Trucker Jacket<\/h3>\n

$445 <\/p>\n

Levi's<\/p>\n

Outside of its rap beef associations, though, there\u2019s nothing remotely pugnacious about the silhouette. Its symmetrical design, classic proportions, and rugged fabric make it one of the rare garments that genuinely looks great everywhere\u2014on the coat rack at GQ<\/em> HQ; hanging from the rafters at the most dialed vintage store in your city\u2014and on everybody.<\/p>\n

To say that the Type III is poised to stoke Samba levels of anxiety is a bit of an exaggeration; most folks simply aren\u2019t paying enough attention to clock the difference. But if the nascent selvedge denim revival is any indication, Kendrick\u2019s KO of a cosign won\u2019t be the last. Forget the big III: it's just big II.<\/p>\n

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Story Mfg.<\/p>\n

Tuesday Cotton-Canvas Jacket<\/h3>\n

$480 <\/p>\n

Mr Porter<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Small Talk<\/p>\n

Striped Denim-Jacquard Trucker Jacket<\/h3>\n

$500 <\/p>\n

Mr Porter<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Close your eyes for a second and picture a denim jacket. No, really, go ahead\u2014I\u2019ll do it, too, to make you feel less awkward. This isn\u2019t some sort of trick: It\u2019s got two pockets, it\u2019s probably from Levi\u2019s, it\u2019s definitely a little cropped, and the very mention of it conjures a mood board\u2019s worth of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Denim-Clothing-lo3sk1dot4f.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32,34,33,28,35,29],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-denim-clothing","tag-coats-and-jackets","tag-denim-clothing","tag-denim-tips","tag-jeans","tag-levis","tag-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfit247.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}