Tall Fall Jacket Guide

No more pretending like Fall is not upon us anymore. Once Labor Day passes we join the rest of the people pushing fall and just embrace it! I think it was sometime this last week, when we were doing some Labor Day sales shopping, when we both realized that we were only looking for cooler weather finds. We knew it would happen eventually, and I think all the rain we’ve experienced this weekend really makes it feel like the weather change is imminent.

With that in mind, we wanted to make a guide for the best purchases to have in your closet this fall and maybe any fall. Some of these pieces we already have in some variation and have gotten a lot of mileage out of already. To illustrate that, we threw in some random old pictures of us wearing said jackets, as we didn’t have time to take some new ones yet. But fear not, we’ll be posting some updated looks soon! We tried to keep a mixture of low and high price points to ensure people would have plenty of options.

Let’s start with the obvious, being light layers. Once the temperatures start cooling off, especially in the evenings – it’s always a great idea to keep a light jacket on hand. We have a couple of our wardrobe stalwarts that remain in rotation year after year.

The jean jacket, in its many variations will never go out of style. I like to rotate between a good classic fit one and my husbands old jean jacket that I can wear for the updated oversized look. Caitlin has the classic, a slightly oversized lighter wash, and then another favorite is the sweatshirt sleeve mixed material.

The army/utilitarian jacket is another piece that comes back year after year. It is offered in so many different variations and colors that probably anyone could find one that they’d wear. We both have options from Old Navy that we really like, in our favorite olive green. It’s basically a millennial neutral, so layered over whatever you already have in closet! If olive isn’t your color that typically also offer it is khaki and navy as well. We also finally both found army jackets at a thrift store when we were visiting NYC, and that has been an awesome addition to our closets as well.

The bomber jacket is everywhere still and doesn’t show any signs of disappearing, which is perfect for us! We both have a black jacket, I have two green bombers and Caitlin has a gorgeous burgundy bomber. They are so cute and comfortable, especially for our unfussy lives.

One of our true gratifying experiences, is always finding a new leather or faux leather jacket with the perfect length in body AND sleeves. My husband bought me a real leather jacket that I will have forever, because it’s completely timeless. From there I found a great faux moto leather jacket that has a bigger collar and I feel like my closet is complete. Caitlin got her first tall leather jacket from Topshop, she also got one from Asos with a bigger collar and she just received this new real leather jacket from Asos and is so pumped to style it repeatedly this fall/winter season.

Another unexpected jacket that Caitlin found while she wasn’t looking is a faux suede jacket in khaki from Nordstrom Rack last season. She tried it on after feeling how buttery soft it was and when the sleeves were plenty long we both knew it was coming home with her. Suede can be a great alternative if leather isn’t necessarily your style.

Another option I’m reluctant to include but I know a lot of women wear often, are blazers. I’ve historically struggled to find well fitting blazers and/or some that are actually comfortable. Not sure if the comfort search is a lost cause (maybe someone should tell me to suck it up). But at least this year the oversized blazer look is in and for us tall women, we finally have our work cut out for us. One that was a huge success is a leather blazer I bought Caitlin for her 22nd Birthday that she still wears frequently We have several tall options or we can borrow from the boys, better than more women!

An option we include as an honorary jacket, would be the chambray. It has been a hero in our closets as an easy layer although not considered a jacket per say. It’s another piece that is basically a neutral and has been able to tie in with whatever we need it to, which makes it perfect for trips as well. 

We were going to do a complete fall guide in one post, but after starting in on it, it makes more sense to break it down a little bit or it will get super long and tedious. These are all jackets we’ve collected/accumulated over the years and you will definitely see posts on in the short future. Let us know what you think of our jacket list, and if we’re missing any must haves!