Clothes have more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. — Virginia Woolf, 1928

Clothes are the visible sign of the invisible spirit. — Honore de Balzac, 1830

Outerwear, more than any other garment, is dramatic and symbolic. Think of a bomber jacket or a motorcycle jacket or a chesterfield coat with a velvet collar or a duffel coat like Paddington's and you will imagine a certain sort of person and a certain sort of life.

In part it's because outerwear stays with us so long. A coat bought in college or for a first interview season serves double duty at the office and out on the town in your 20's, is a daily cold-weather companion through a career in your 30's and 40's, joins you on adventures around the world later in life, and perhaps is handed down thereafter. When worn, it tells a rich story of where you've been, who you are, and who you still hope to become.

For Fall Winter 2025, Moutonière reimagines three classics of men's outerwear — the Cavalry Cloak, the Classic Trench, and the Teba Jacket — garments that elide the gap between practicality and poetry. 

Cavalry Cloak

Not all heroes wear capes — but many do.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yalta wearing a cloak

Every child loves a cape. It’s the earliest symbol of transformation: fasten it, and you’re a superhero, or at least someone brave, dashing, and capable. That sense of readiness is what inspired our Cavalry Cloak, modeled after the sweeping riding cloaks worn in the field and, later, on New York and London streets, by men who prefer their outerwear dramatic.

Cut in classic cavalry twill, the cloak is offered in country khaki or city navy, structured in the shoulder for a clean line and cut long and generous to flow with the body. It protects against rain and snow, wards equally against low branches and urban pickpockets, and defines a heroic silhouette. Unlike a conventional coat, your cloak drapes over your briefcase or bag, keeping your daily carry safe from the elements.

A Moutonière silk lining adds warmth and ensures the cloak glides over your suit or sweater. Pocket slits allow your hands to pass through the cloak to open a car door or hold a cup of coffee, while the large lower inside pocket stows scarf and gloves at the coat check. The fireman’s-clasp closures are easy to operate even with gloves.

Step, swing, and swish — the Cavalry Cloak transforms the everyday act of stepping outside into an iconic style moment. Moutonière is delighted to bring the cloak back as a core outerwear piece in any elegant man’s wardrobe.

Classic Trench

From the trenches to the boulevard: elegance and heroism

Our Classic Trench traces its lineage to the military coats worn by officers returning from the Second World War — garments so perfectly balanced between duty and style, so charged with chivalry and adventure, that they were never forgotten. Ours is available in traditional khaki or a modern, city appropriate charcoal.

We’ve preserved every meaningful detail: the 8×3 button stance with horn buttons, the five-row-stitched belt with brass buckle, and the storm pockets deep enough for your daily kit. Sleeve loops tighten for warmth and to block rain or snow, passenten shoulder straps hold epaulets of rank — or a scarf, or the strap of a bag — while the oversized lapels turn up dramatically and fasten across the body in the wind.

A swelled front edge and expanding back vent give structure and movement, tailoring details drawn from Savile Row bespoke. Worn belted or loose, collar up or down, the classic trench is as adaptable as its heritage demands: field coat, spy coat, commuter’s armor.

Teba Jacket

A modern blazer for the modern man who never wore a suit every day

Somewhere between a blazer and a cardigan lies the Teba Jacket, an emblem of modern ease. Its story begins in Spain: commissioned by the Count of Teba as a bespoke shooting jacket, later gifted to King Alfonso XIII, and since adopted by generations who prefer grace to stiffness.

Our version refines the form — a notchless lapel, two buttons at the top, a small break, and four more below, allowing it to be worn open and relaxed, buttoned mid-way for a soft lapel like a modern blazer, or closed to the collar for warmth. In chocolate suede, it evokes country weekends and a good Rioja; in navy merino, it becomes the new navy blazer, perfect for travel, the boardroom, and an elegant dinner in the city.

Horn buttons, generous flap pockets, and that ineffable Moutonière proportion — relaxed yet exact — make it the jacket for the man who appreciates the history and craft of bespoke tailoring but wants something modern, whether for a stroll in the field or a night at the bar with good conversation and a couple of (gin) martinis.

Reflections

Each of these pieces is a classic meant to be worn for decades. A teba, a trench, and a cloak could easily be all the jackets a man needs from Fall until Spring.

We have tried in this collection to resurrect a piece that never should have died — the Cavalry Cloak; popularize a piece that has long had an ardent following in Spain and the continent and that is ideally suited to the way people live today, with fewer and fewer men wearing suits and sport coats daily — the Teba Jacket; and deliver a no-corners-cut classical execution of the most versatile overcoat — the Classic Trench. And as you can see in the product images, each piece looks as great on women as it does on men.

The Cavalry Cloak, Classic Trench, and Teba are not just clothes for the lives we lead — they are symbols of the lives to which we aspire. Clothes that carry into the present the best values of the past, that makes us a little braver, a little more elegant, and unmistakably Moutonière.