Barbour Jackets

I've had mine about 5 years now, love it in the winter or when I'm off to the lakes.

Good quality and worth the price IMO.
 
They make some great jackets, even the Thinsulate filled ones are winter-suitable.I preferred that over wax ones because it was super lightweight yet still blocked out the cold perfectly.
 
D.P. said:
They are heavy, restrict movement, don't breath, get dirty and will ultimately get wet in bad weather, plus it makes you look like a Chav, unless you step out of a Range Rover and go pheasant shooting.
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Are you sure you are thinking of the right coat? I've never seen a chav in a wax jacket :p
 
leemk said:
Had my Barbour Bedale for over 30 years , not many jackets out there that can stand a deluge constantly whilst doing some hard graft in the field and still 100% waterproof with a rewax evey couple of years , bit biased about mine as it was made in my home village of Newcastleton in the 80's
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Of course they can, Gore-Tex has been around for a while and is superior in practical terms.

Sure a Barbour jacket works OK but these days you'd buy one more for the look/image etc... and not because it is the most practical way of keeping warm and dry - like another poster mentioned, it would go with the Range Rover, green wellies and shotguns etc... (or these days people would buy them to try and dress like the sort of person who owns a Range Rover and goes shooting etc..)
 
Lopéz said:
Are you sure you are thinking of the right coat? I've never seen a chav in a wax jacket :p
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Presumably you’ve not been in a large town/ city in the last 5 years then?

They’re the outerwear equivalent of the yoga pants we had a thread on a few weeks ago. :p
 
Amp34 said:
They’re the outerwear equivalent of the yoga pants we had a thread on a few weeks ago. :p
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Ah, this is bad, that might well be the case but I'd be vehemently opposed to anyone trying to mock or discourage the current yoga pants trend! :D
 
Amp34 said:
Presumably you’ve not been in a large town/ city in the last 5 years then?

They’re the outerwear equivalent of the yoga pants we had a thread on a few weeks ago. :p
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I work in capital cities all over Europe and have never seen a chav in a wax jacket. I must be lucky.
 
If you're getting one buy a traditional cut not the trendy modern which will look outdated in a couple of years. It'll last many many years.
 
I've had many over the years, they've gone downhill a little in quality I feel, still very good jackets though. Just make sure you don't buy anything with some horrible huge Barbour branding smashed across it, you shouldn't be able to tell it's a Barbour.

https://www.barbour.com/Categories/...-Classic-Beaufort®-Wax-Jacket/p/MWX0002OL7134

The Beaufort is classic, can't go wrong. I wouldn't pay full retail anymore though, Ebay is your friend, will be half the price if not more.
 
Live about 15 mins away from their HQ and they have a outlet store which has a decent sale section in it. Some good deals to be had if you don't mind a apparent shade difference for example (we still can't see where lol)

The wife has two, a modern style one and one of the classic style, Defo agree the classic ones age better.
 
I bought a barbour international wax jacket in the sale from house of fraser recently and yes, I have a leather corner sofa.
 
Belstaff are better quality IMO, but they're now a fashion brand and are twice the price. I've had mine 10 years, re-waxed a few times, and it is still fantastic.
 
dowie said:
Of course they can, Gore-Tex has been around for a while and is superior in practical terms.

Sure a Barbour jacket works OK but these days you'd buy one more for the look/image etc... and not because it is the most practical way of keeping warm and dry - like another poster mentioned, it would go with the Range Rover, green wellies and shotguns etc... (or these days people would buy them to try and dress like the sort of person who owns a Range Rover and goes shooting etc..)
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No Goretex jacket is going to last 30 years , my Mammut Extreme Logan lasted less than 10 with regualar reproofing and that wasnt cheap.
Although would not buy another wax jacket now as no longer live in the sticks.
 
leemk said:
No Goretex jacket is going to last 30 years , my Mammut Extreme Logan lasted less than 10 with regualar reproofing and that wasnt cheap.
Although would not buy another wax jacket now as no longer live in the sticks.
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Maybe not 30 years but any jacket is going to be well worn in that kind of time. My previous Gore-Tex type jacket (not actually Gore-Tex but same kind of design) lasted exactly 16 years before needing any kind of reproofing (replaced instead due to a seam coming apart) and my current one is 4 years old and still pretty much as new - just shrugs off even the worst deluges.
 
Never seen a chav in Barbour, either. They all wear trackies and cheap junk from Primark.

Wifey is into all that Country Life catalogue crap. Hunter wellies, and everything.
She went through several alternative brands to begin with but the genuine Barbour has properly lasted... well enough that she even the bloody dog had a matching Barbour doggie coat, until I got involved!
 
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