The popular men’s sportcoat or sports coat, also known as sports jackets are just the accepted term for a less structured, casual jacket entirely different from a suits jackets.
A sports coat or a sports jacket is designed in a way that it can be worn independent of matching trousers. It does not come as part of a suit. While suits are limited in styles, fabrics, colors and patterns, sport coats offer much more variance. Sport coats are available in various fabrics such as corduroy, suede, denim, leather, and tweed.
Sports jackets were worn by men when they went for hunting and other outdoor sports. With time, sportscoat started to be considered with more dignity and schools and universities of England made it a part of their uniform.
A shooting jacket, a hacking jacket, a blazer are all various kinds of sports coat.
While the shooting jacket is limited to hunting, a hacking jacket is worn by horse riders. The shooting sports coat comes with a leather patch on the shoulders to prevent deterioration of the fabric by the butt of the shooting rifle. Sports coat also have matching leather patches on the elbows. Hacking jackets are made up of wool (mostly) or tweed with the traditional 3 button styling with a single vent.
A blazer is similar to a shooting or hacking sports jacket. The blazer fabric is striped or solid in color thusly distinguishing itself from shooting or hacking sports jackets. Blazers also have patch pockets and metal buttons that set it apart from other kinds of coats.
Now that you have learned about sports jacket, you can fairly differentiate it from dress suits. And if you wish to try these various custom made sports jackets, we are sure you would enjoy collecting some of them for your wardrobe.
