The must have to counter the UK’s cruel summer? Meet the barn jacket

This boxy, big pocketed item is part wax jacket, part chore coat and an all-purpose guard against an unsettled forecast

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We might be enjoying a moment of relative balm, but it surely won’t last long if recent weather forecasts for the UK are anything to go by. Take Glastonbury next week: night-time temperatures are expected to fall as low as 11C. With that in mind, your shorts choice is less important. Instead, this is shaping up to be the summer of the jacket, and one in particular is leading the pack: the barn jacket.

Versatile and hardy, the boxy big-pocketed design – which has its roots in French workwear, with brands including Carhartt giving them an American spin from the 1920s onwards – it is the perfect outerwear for a summer that can’t make up its mind.

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