The must-have raincoat

Keep dry but stylish

The must-have raincoat

While our mums always warned us to be sensible on rainy nights, we typically threw caution to the wind and put on an unsuitable leather jacket while she tried to enforce a practical yet unappealing anorak on our back.

As teens, being practical and staying dry was sadly not synonymous with looking fashionable yet Nikolaj, the label from Nikolaj d’Étoiles, has given us a jacket that has managed to buck the trend.

Even as adults we often make the less appropriate outerwear decision yet there's no need to either end up soaked or looking like you're part of the local hiking society with the Honduras jacket.

It's made from oil slick cotton, a material that's typically used by fisherman, hunters and sailors so it's ideal for facing the bad weather with. It's also designed to impress the fashion-conscious with sharp tailoring and surprisingly intricate detailing.

If you want to make your mum happy, and yourself, then click here to get yours.

Marc Chacksfield
Content Director

As Content Director of Shortlist, Marc likes nothing more than to compile endless lists of an evening by candlelight. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.