Levi’s will always be known first and foremost for denim jeans. But its outerwear game has a long-standing legacy of its own.
The brand’s Trucker Jacket is as canonical as it gets in American workwear, and recently, Levi’s has been pushing that heritage further with a string of standout releases that have gotten the denim world buzzing.
We covered the Market Miners Trucker Jacket, a Western-inflected reimagining of the Type III, as well as the S506xx 1944 War Model, a stitch-for-stitch reproduction of a wartime-rationed grail jacket that collectors chase for thousands of dollars.
Even the broader denim outerwear conversation has gotten livelier, with the Naked and Famous Elephant 14 raising the bar for what a Trucker-inspired jacket can look like at the premium end.
Now, Levi’s has something different to offer. The newly introduced Pier 99 Jacket isn’t trying to out-heritage anything. Instead, it takes a different tack entirely, channeling the loose, unhurried energy that’s all over menswear right now while still looking put-together thanks to minimal branding and clean, unfussy lines. It looks expensive. It isn’t.
An all-around hybrid
The Pier 99 is a shape-shifter. Visually, it sits somewhere between a chore coat, a barn jacket, and a classic hunting jacket, borrowing the boxy silhouette and patch pockets of the first, the relaxed drape of the second, and the clean button-front of the third. The result is a jacket that’s easy to reach for and harder to pin down, which is exactly what makes it interesting.
