Compare shape and function separately
A long riding-inspired silhouette, cropped jacket and double-breasted blazer solve different outfit questions. Their names do not establish warmth, rain protection or certified riding use.
- Length: compare shoulder-to-hem measurements with a jacket you own and the trousers, skirt or dress beneath it.
- Closure: fasten the buttons or zip over the intended shirt; check movement at the bust, waist and hips.
- Sleeves: bend and reach to make sure the base layer does not bind.
- Warmth: read fibre, lining and construction details, then plan additional layers for the forecast.
For an office, a quieter jacket can frame a patterned shirt. For a party, you may prefer the printed jacket over a plain top. For a country walk, footwear and a weatherproof layer matter alongside the silhouette.
Price and stock in the original edit are dated examples. Use the current listings when comparing sizes and value; leather is not automatically a guarantee that a jacket outlasts every other garment.
Continue reading: Women's Printed Shirts: The Complete Style Guide (2026) · The Equestrienne: A Woman's Wardrobe from Burghley to Cheltenham · Desk to Dinner: Styling the Statement Shirt at Work.
Explore the current women’s jackets. Check the product page for the current fabric, measurements, price and available sizes.
Explore women’s style guides in the Claudio Lugli journal.
La Signora — The Tailoring Room
The Jacket Makes the Argument
The complete guide to Claudio Lugli women's jackets
Riding coats · double-breasted prints · leather · £85–£280
Every stylist worth her rail agrees on one economy: the jacket is where the money goes. A great jacket promotes everything beneath it — the £70 shirt, the old jeans, the plain black dress — and a decade of British tailoring revivals has only strengthened the case. The Claudio Lugli women's tailoring room is small and deliberate: fifteen jackets, four distinct arguments, nothing on the rail without a reason. This is the map.
“The jacket is where the money goes — it promotes everything beneath it.”
The Herringbone Family: The Investment Pieces
At the top of the room sit the £250 English herringbones. The Ascot Herringbone Contrast Blazer is the sharp one — contrast-trimmed, enclosure-ready, the jacket our Ladies' Day guide is built around. The Heritage Herringbone Riding jacket is the romantic one: cut long with a flared skirt on the line of a show-ring coat, equally correct over jeans at Burghley or over black in town. Between them they cover every serious occasion in the calendar.
The Printed Double-Breasted: The House Signature
No other British house prints tailoring like this. The double-breasted block — structured shoulder, nipped waist, proper peak lapel — carries the house artwork the way our shirts do: the Equestrian Elegance puts the paddock on a lapel, the Azure Equestrienne cools it into blue, the Candy Crush Houndstooth turns a heritage check into confectionery, and the Midnight Sparkle scatters the night sky across black. Worn over one of our plain satin shirts, each is a complete outfit with one decision.
The Leather and the Wild Card
The Fitted Leather Jacket with Chains is the room's rock and roll wing: real leather, a genuinely feminine cut, and chain hardware that does the jewellery's job for it. It is the most expensive garment in the women's range at £280 and a different material and construction choice; follow the care information and compare the actual garment. Its opposite number, the Leopard Skin double-breasted, costs £100 and behaves — per The Leopard Memo — like a neutral with intent.
The Soft Wing: Coats, Capes and the Weekend
Beyond the tailoring proper sits the softer wing of the room — the pieces for the school run, the fireside pub, the trackside September evening. The Winter Empress faux-fur cape is pure 1958 box seat (the Revival guide deploys it after dark); the Dakota Fringe Rider swings western; the Forever Icon is the collarless city throw-on. None passes £70, which makes this the gentlest door into the room.
Which Jacket, Which Life
Race days and weddings: the Ascot Herringbone. Country weekends and the horse world: the Heritage Riding or the Signature Equestrian. The office that expects personality: the Candy Crush or the Dogtooth. Evenings: Midnight Sparkle or the leather. And if the wardrobe starts from zero, start where the stylists start — one investment herringbone, one printed double-breasted, one soft layer. Three jackets, every version of the week dressed. The shirts they promote live in the complete shirt guide.
Herringbone · printed DB · leather · the soft wing
