Over the past few years stylish, Chanel-inspired jackets have taken up substantial real estate in my closet. So it was a natural fit to highlight the Chic Jacket as the next item in my French Girl Closet Staples series.!
French Girl Closet Staples – The Chic Jacket
French Girl Closet Staples – The Chic JacketThe chic jacket is the perfect topper to so many outfits I wear regularly and in my opinion it is the best way to dress up jeans. I wear a version of this outfit every time I go to France. Easy, reliable, comfortable and always put together.
I personally look for more structured fabrics like tweed and boucle and thicker cottons when it comes to the styles I like and find most flattering. Oversized fits or jersey like fabrics don’t have the same chic appeal in my opinion. This type of jacket is similar to a blazer but it’s not quite one. While I love wearing mine with jeans, they also top well with black pants, too. I often layer mine over a favorite tee like this one or this one or often over my favorite bodysuit, too as I did in today’s photos.
I found SO many good chic jackets out now and hope you’ll find one from the below that you’re excited about!
The Best Chic Jackets Out Now:
I particularly love this one and will most likely be buying it pronto! This one is also so great and I love the tie on this one. You can see more ways I’ve worn the chic jacket in this post, this post, this post, this post & this post. It truly is a style that’s such a French Girl closet staple for me.
H&M Jacket (8) // Madewell Bodysuit (L) // Agolde Jeans (28) // Chanel Ballet Flats (similar) // Saint Laurent Bag (similar)
p.s. my favorite purchases for Fall so far and things I’ve bought and loved recently.
Meghan, I’ve been loving this series! This post, in particular, made me so happy. I love tweed jackets because they’re classic and can be dressed up or down. It makes creating both a professional and casual wardrobe more seamless and efficient. Thanks for continuing to create the best content!
Aw yay! This comment made my day! So glad you’re a tweed jacket fan, too – hope you found one you liked via today’s post!
Loooove this jacket! So beautiful! This post transported me to Paris for a few minutes.
Aw yay! Definitely one of the hopes with this series is that we could all enjoy bits of Paris 🙂
I have been thoroughly enjoying this series, Meghan!! It is so creative and SO you 🙂 I will need to add a french girl chic section to my closet, haha!
Libby
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I am so glad you’re enjoying the series, Libby!!
I am a fan of jackets like this too! I would LOVE to have a real Chanel one day 🙂
I feel like you’ll appreciate this… I found a gorgeous vintage jacket at Les Puces in Paris last fall. It’s wool with the chain in the hem and gold lion head buttons, just like a Chanel and fits me like it was made for me (which is tricky because I’m petite 5 ft with broad shoulders…often jackets are too long in the sleeve or end up too big in the body when I size up for my shoulders). Best part is that I only paid 50 EUR. SCORE!
That is SUCH an amazing find & I personally love when pieces we wear have such fun stories. Thank you for sharing, Ellie!
You have such style, that even someone in the late 60’s…like me 🙂 can be inspired!! I need the confidence you have!!
So glad to hear you found it inspiring, Victoria!