“way too heavy”

“I love BW clothes and have purchased several items from this list. This is the only one I haven't adored. The linen is so heavy it feel like canvas and the weight made it feel almost like a winter jacket. Like all BW clothes, it has beautiful workmanship and there is decorative stitching that is so lovely it broke my heart to feel uncomfortable wearing it. I also want my clothes to be so classic they will be in style until they wear out. The shape of a collar is always risky because what is in style when we buy it can disconcertingly look all wrong in a couple of years. This jacket, especially with its weight, would have been better designed with a mandarin collar, ensuring its stylishness for decades (which is how long it is likely to last). If you're young enough to keep this for 20 years after the collar goes out of style and can wait for it to come back into style, don't mind the weight and somewhat scratchiness of it, go for it. It will be recognized as an "up market" jacket by anyone with any fashion sense.”