The retro track jacket is one of those pieces that keeps cycling back through menswear because it actually solves something. It sits between a sweatshirt and a proper jacket, works with tailored trousers as comfortably as it does with joggers, and carries enough visual interest that you are not relying on anything else in the outfit to do the heavy lifting. The problem is that most of them are either cheap reproductions that look fine on a hanger and terrible on a person, or they are so loudly nostalgic that wearing one feels like a costume. We have been looking specifically for the ones that thread that needle. Pieces with the right weight of fabric, considered colourways that do not scream any particular decade too aggressively, and construction that holds up past the first few washes. Some of these lean Eighties Italia, some are more Nineties technical. All of them are worth the wardrobe space.