A brown-and-black leopard-print jacket cropped to 18 inches on a size Small — lined, long-sleeved and buttoned down the front, in a 95% polyester, 5% wool woven.
Highlights
✓95% polyester with 5% wool — the wool is a small share of the blend, so it wears like a polyester jacket carrying a trace of wool’s drier handle rather than like a wool coat.
✓Lined in 100% polyester — it slides on over a knit without catching at the sleeves, and the lining keeps the woven face off your arms.
✓18 inches long on a size Small — it ends around the high waist, which is the length that sits over high-rise trousers, a skirt or a dress rather than cutting across them.
✓20.5 inches across the bust on a size Small — an inch wider than the Autumn in Aspen plaid crop at the same 18-inch length, so there is room for a fine knit underneath.
✓The print is the statement — keep what goes under it plain. Leopard plus a second pattern and the outfit gets busy very fast.
Animal print earns its keep when everything around it is quiet. Worn over a black top with black trousers or a plain skirt, this is a jacket that finishes an outfit on its own — no necklace, no scarf, nothing else competing.
If you like the same cropped shape in a quieter pattern, the Autumn in Aspen plaid crop jacket is a brown-and-beige plaid at the same 18-inch length, lined, in 100% polyester. More cropped jackets are in women’s coats and jackets and the Flying Tomato range.
Brown/Black in S, M and L. Self: 95% polyester, 5% wool; lining: 100% polyester. Long sleeves, button front. Model is 5’8" and wears a size Small. Size Small measures 18" in length and 20.5" across the bust.
