Eric Adams and his wife, Kathie, ran Adams & Sons Clothiers for almost five years. Located on the Hampton Inn’s riverfront level, the store is, in reality, more of a layout studio than a retail keep.
Though Adams & Sons are open all through ordinary commercial enterprise hours, Monday through Friday, Eric spends a lot of time journeying the southeast, meeting clients in their homes or places of work. As a custom garment source, he helps his customers curate their closets by helping them pick beautifully crafted portions that fit their tastes and lives.
Recently, with the debut of a signature item and a separate label, the couple celebrated the launch of a new department in their business.
Brit and Blue, Adams’ new label, is called for its design concept, which the proprietor says is “the melding of blue-collar sensibility and British luxury.” While Adams said there’s “a laundry listing of products being labored on” for the line, it currently facilities round one, the Signature Hacking Jacket.
Fashioned of duck material, generally used for farm and application garb, the jacket has the overall form of a game coat with an equestrian-fashion wallet. A silhouette that its inventor said is paying homage to the sort of blazer often sported by the mythical actor Sean Connery.
“The concept for this precise jacket became something worthy of a separate logo,” Adams stated, adding that the jacket was “sincerely specific……an aristocratic piece made from a working man’s fabric.”
The J Peterman-like product description reads, “Simply put, this jacket is for the delicate rogue who gives a damn approximately operating hard and living well.”
The hacking jacket is derived from the word hackney, which becomes a saddle horse used for pleasure driving. Gentlemen required a coat that could be worn for informal driving instead of hunting or leaping. All essential characteristics are freedom of movement, the right of entry to pockets, and the capability to retain its shape after a journey. From those, the hacking jacket was born.
Since the jacket is equestrian at its roots, it’s fitting that the Brit & Blue model will now be at the newly opened Keeneland Mercantile store in downtown Lexington.
“For our kingdom, there’s no longer a more visible way to make a debut,” Adams said.
The Signature Hacking Jacket, manufactured at an employer primarily based in Mississippi, is likewise available at the primary Keeneland save on the famous Lexington racetrack. Adams has partnered with numerous quality men’s stores in locales, including Charleston and Bristol, Tennessee.
“We’ve already bought quite some, and approximately thirty of these have been simply from me having the coat on and those announcing, ‘Holy Cow! What is that?’ and wanting one right away,” he said.
Off the rack, the jacket retails for approximately $995, with custom healthy variations for $1,195.
Britandblue.Com will be released in June as a way to encompass an e-store. In the interim, anyone interested in the Signature Hacking Jacket can achieve one at Adams & Sons or Keeneland Mercantile in downtown Lexington.
