This Fall’s Coolest Camo Jacket Is a Japan-Made Puffer with Vintage Military Heritage

Turns out, frogs make the best-looking camo.

Person wearing a green and brown camouflage puffer jacket with a dark brown yoke, viewed from the back.

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The funny thing about the brand Rocky Mountain Featherbed is that it’s not based anywhere near the Rocky Mountains — at least not anymore — and it only produces clothing.

It is one of the many Japanese brands reproducing vintage American designs to the same or, in this case, higher quality than the originals. It is best known for its outerwear, such as the Christy Western-style puffer jacket.

Camouflage puffer jacket with brown shoulder yoke, snap buttons, and orange lining. — The Christy jacket is one of Rocky Mountain Featherbed’s signature designs.

Brooklyn-based shoe company Blackstock & Weber teamed up with Rocky Mountain Featherbed to create what might be the coolest camo jacket of 2025. The Christy is done up in Frog Skin camo, a distinctive camouflage pattern developed in the 1940s, and made famous during the Vietnam War.

Blackstock & Weber earned recognition by specializing in loafers, often with lug soles, storm welts and ornate materials. However, the brand has wisely expanded into other categories through carefully selected collaborations, such as Rocky Mountain Featherbed jacket, beginning in 2022.

Person wearing a green and brown camouflage puffer jacket with a dark brown yoke, viewed from behind outdoors. — At this point, Frog Skin camo is better suited for the urban jungle.

Frog Skin camo was developed in 1941 by Norvell Gillespie, an American horticulturist and editor for Better Homes & Gardens, at the request of the US Army.

It gained popularity in civilian dress around the 1960s through US Military surplus and among Vietnam veterans. By the 2000s, it had been adopted by clothing brands such as Ralph Lauren and J.Crew. Now, it’s more suited for the urban jungle.

Brass and leather

Rocky Mountain Feathered’s Christy Jacket is one of the brand’s signature products. It is a 1970s puffer jacket pulled from the original brand’s archives, which was founded in Jackson, Wyoming, in the 1960s, went defunct in the 1980s, and was then revived by a Japanese manufacturer in 2005.

Brown, green, and tan camouflage puffer jacket with dark brown yoke on the back. — The leather Wester-style yoke is the distinguishing feature of the Christy Jacket.

The distinguishing feature of the Christy Jacket is its single-piece leather yoke, featuring Western-style pointed arches. It is made from a sturdy cut of steer leather, with the flesh side out for a soft feel and texture, secured with a double-stitch.

The yoke sits atop a 100-percent nylon shell stuffed with a 90/10 down fill. In this case, it is decorated with a faithful Frog Skin camouflage pattern on the outside and a solid hunter orange on the inside.

The snaps are solid brass, indicating the top-shelf quality that Rocky Mountain Featherbed is known for. I’ve never come across a vintage piece from the brand’s original run, but the reputation is that the Japanese revival is of an even higher standard.

Close-up of a camouflage-patterned jacket with gold snap buttons and detailed stitching. — Rocky Mountain Featherbed uses solid brass hardware on all outerwear.

The Christy Jacket has two external slanted patch pockets and elastic cuffs with adjustable snap tabs. The collar is quilted to provide warmth up through the neck, and just below the inner collar is a locker loop and a decorative leather patch that declares the brand’s original hometown of Jackson, Wyoming.

Availability and price

Going the collaboration route to diversify its catalog is a clever move by Blackstock & Weber. It minimizes investment and risk while producing high-quality products that are on par with the brand’s coveted loafers.

Close-up of a camo jacket collar with orange lining, brown suede yoke, and brass snap buttons. — Rocky Mountain Featherbed still declares the brand’s original hometown of Jackson, Wyoming, despite being operated and produced in Japan.

The Rocky Mountain Featherbed Christy Jacket in Frog Camo is available now from Blackstock & Weber for $895. That may sound like a steep price for a nylon puffer jacket, but you’re absolutely getting what you pay for in this jacket.

Rocky Mountain Featherbed for Blackstock & Weber Christy Jacket in Frog Camo

$895 at Blackstock & Weber

About the Author: Brad Lanphear is an associate editor at Gear Patrol covering watches and style. Before joining the publication, he previously wrote for Heddels and Men’s Health. Now, he’s on a never-ending quest to find the perfect pair of Japanese denim.

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