“This jacket protects you from bad weather, but it also protects you from the risk of being improperly dressed. And it’s true: if you are not sure what to put on you can always fall back on the Barbour – as long as it’s not too warm, that is.”
-Bernhard Roetzel – Gentleman: A Timeless Guide to Fashion-
Bond’s Barbour jacket in Skyfall is a limited edition by To Ki To, designed by Tokihito Yoshida, in olive waxed cotton, cut similarly to a lounge coat. It has three large buttons on the front, with the top button placed further apart.
Further up the lapels there is a tab and smaller button (which has been removed), but the tab is held back with a button under the lapel. If the tab were extended, the button that Bond uses to hold it back would be used to secure a throat latch to the chest. The throat latch would also attach to buttons on either side of the collar, which have also been removed. There is also another small button that closes the top of the lapels.
The shoulders have patches of a different, greener material. The front of the jacket has two flapped bellows pockets on the hips, with the bellows made from the same material as the shoulder patches. There is also a flapped, inset breast pocket, and the back of the jacket has vertical zip pockets on the sides of the skirt. The jacket comes with a hood, but since the hood is not worn the zip and buttons that the hood attaches to has been removed.
The sleeve openings are finished with a stripe of brown leather binding. A lot has been removed from the original jacket to streamline it to just Bond’s needs.
Features
– 6oz Sylkoil, 100% Waxed Cotton
– 100% cotton Barbour Tartan lining
– 8oz waxed cotton elbow patches
– Three front outer pockets
– Self fabric shoulder patches
– Zipped pockets at rear
– Weatherproof
– Colours: Olive – MWX0007OL71 and Navy – MWX0007NY92
Details & Care
– Do not wash
– Due to the nature of this wax jacket, the oils within it may transfer onto other materials. We recommend that this jacket is kept away from paler materials, especially in warm conditions
