From vintage caps to Bottega bags, Jacob Elordi has fun with his menswear. But he also skews classic. For every good and mad leopard print fleece, there's a blue jeans and white T-shirt combo. Get you a man who does both, and all that. But also get you a piece that does both – and the only thing that can do that is a real big coat during Big Coat season.
Earlier this week, when the Australian actor was spotted outside the Today show in New York City, he amped up the classic stuff with a huge black overcoat that will go with absolutely everything, and upgrade any menswear combination imaginable. For Elordi, that meant a pair of oversized aviators, blue jeans, brown Derby shoes, and a slightly dog-eared copy of W. H. Auden's Selected Poems, which feels quite Saltburn coded – his upcoming homoerotic old money drama-comedy opposite Barry Keoghan. But, as always, it was the coat that had menswearheads nodding in approval.
The woolen piece (strategically layered on top of a chunky knit jumper, FYI) features a single-breasted design with a chunky and button setup. It's impactful, but easy, and has all the compulsory villain swish you'd expect from a mega overcoat (and Elordi had plenty of that given the fact it hangs perfectly on a 6'4 frame. That's a biiiiiig Big Coat).
Jacob Elordi is, famously, a huge fan of the oversized aesthetic. Throwing back to the height of summer, he was spotted rocking a very baggy polo shirt and some very baggy denim (alongside a shockingly tiny shoulder bag). It's comfy. It's cozy. But more importantly, it's cool.
So, if there's anything to be learned from this small but important episode in menswear, it's that one should never underestimate the power of an overcoat. It makes you feel broader, taller, and grander. All of that makes Big Coat Season the most wonderful time of the year – and all of that makes Jacob Elordi our new Big Coat king.
This story first appeared in British GQ.
