Baracuta
The Baracuta Harrington jacket was born in Manchester back in 1937, when John Miller and his brothers came up with the legendary tartan-lined G9 jacket in their Baracuta factory on Chorlton Street, just a stones throw from our office window.
The Baracuta G9 has been worn most famously by Steve McQueen as well as Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Arnold Palmer and the 1966 England World Cup team. The mods adopted the Baracuta as one of their staple wardrobe pieces in the 60s and re-christened it as the Harrington after Ryan O'Neal's character 'Rodney Harrington' in the Peyton Place TV series. It has never really gone out of fashion which is testament to it's cool simplicity.
It's not just all about the Baracuta G9 though, we're also stocking the straight cut, belted Baracuta G4 golf jacket, similar to Burberry's classic golf jacket but with a slimmer cut silhouette. Both styles are now rightly made in England .
