An oversized denim shacket: what a shirt-jacket is for, how to size oversized, and why a frayed hem means hand wash

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Vetinee Oversized Frayed Hem Denim Shacket

A shacket is a shirt cut like a jacket, or a jacket light enough to wear like a shirt. It buttons up the front, sits loose, and works as a top layer when a coat is too much and a cardigan is not enough. This one is an oversized, button-up denim shacket with a frayed hem.

How to wear a shacket

Open, over a fitted tee or a bodysuit, as a light jacket. Buttoned, as a shirt, with the sleeves pushed up. Over a dress, to take it from summer into autumn. Because it is oversized, keep what is underneath and on the legs fairly fitted — slim jeans or leggings, or a slip dress — so the proportions stay balanced.

Sizing something meant to be big

Oversized clothes are designed to hang loose, so the usual advice is to take your normal size and let the cut do the rest. Sizing up makes it enormous rather than relaxed; sizing down defeats the look. The details worth checking on the listing's size chart are the sleeve length and the overall length — oversized sleeves are meant to be rolled, but not swallowed.

The fabric

According to the listing, it is 82% cotton, 10% polyester and 8% viscose. Mostly cotton, so it breathes and softens like denim should. The polyester adds strength, and the viscose makes the denim drape and move more softly than a stiff, classic jean jacket — which suits a shacket worn loose.

Why the care label says hand wash only

The listing gives the care instruction as hand wash only, and the frayed hem is the likeliest reason. A raw, frayed edge keeps fraying, and a washing machine's agitation speeds that up dramatically — a neat fray can become a ragged, shortening one in a few washes. Hand washing in cool water, pressing rather than wringing, and hanging to dry keeps the fray where it was designed to be. Denim also keeps its colour much longer washed this way.

Wash it rarely. Like jeans, a denim layer rarely needs washing after every wear — we explained why in why the advice on jeans is always to wash them less.

What it will not do

It will not keep the frayed hem neat through machine washing. It will not keep you warm in real cold. And it will not look intentional sized too big — oversized is a cut, not a size.

The product

An oversized, button-up denim shacket with a frayed hem, soft enough to wear as a shirt and sturdy enough to wear as a jacket. The most useful layer for in-between days, washed by hand and rarely.

The one people are searching for is the Vetinee Women's Oversized Button Up Frayed Hem Denim Shacket.

Vetinee Oversized Frayed Hem Denim Shacket

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Written by JamieG in Garner Town, Tennessee.