The suit jacket is where professional dressing either earns its keep or wastes everyone’s time. Too stiff and you look like you borrowed it. Too cheap and the lapels roll the wrong way by Thursday. What we’ve been looking for here are jackets that read as considered and put together without requiring a four figure outlay or a bespoke appointment. The kind of thing that works over tailored trousers on a serious day and over dark jeans when the brief is smart but not formal. We’ve paid close attention to canvassing, lapel width, and how each jacket behaves after a day of actual wearing. A jacket that looks good on a hanger means nothing if it loses its shape by lunchtime. The price points across this collection vary but the standard does not. These are the jackets that look like they cost more than they did, and that is exactly the point.