Of Course Seattle Loves Shackets—We Kind of Invented Them

Did Seattle invent the shacket? 

That depends how you define the oft-searched shirt-jacket portmanteau (no French pun intended). Do heavy button-ups qualify as shackets? What about the “light jacket Miss Congeniality’s Miss Rhode Island claimed was perfect for a date (April 25, to be exact)? 

Like many essential pieces of Seattle style, the humble shacket got its start as workwear before it hit the streets—as the nineteenth-century French bleu de travail (now better known as a chore coat), as the shirt worn by Chief Petty Officers in the U.S. Navy.

But the cozy, campfire-ready shackets we’re searching for today are perhaps most closely tied to C.C.

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