If there’s one outerwear trend truly everyone is talking about this fall, it’s the military jacket. Dazed asks, “What’s more attention-grabbing than a hot girl dressed like an 18th-century soldier?” Marie Claire has catalogued the garment’s appearances in the Spring/Summer 2026 collections. Elle has documented the best street styles featuring it. Vogue‘s November cover displays Greta Lee wearing a military jacket from Jonathan Anderson’s debut collection at Dior. Celebrities like Jenna Ortega and Jodie Turner-Smith have given the marital piece of apparel their seal of approval (though, to be precise, Ortega’s Dior number was really a military vest).
This isn’t the first time this century that military-jacket fever has infected fashion. The attire was all the rage in the early aughts. While today’s designers are creating their own fresh takes, plenty of fashion lovers are styling jackets in the spirit of the 2000s or seeking out vintage pieces.
Demonstrating how delightfully un-uniform the garment, 1stDibs offers a diversity of options, ranging from a black-leather military coat from Yves Saint Laurent’s Fall/Winter 2001 collection, designed by Tom Ford, to a deconstructed 2006 Junya Watanabe for Comme des Garçons military jacket. On the more traditional end of the spectrum, there’s the Chanel cotton jacket from the Spring/Summer 2006 collection. Somewhere in the middle is Balmain’s heightened Fall/Winter 2010 version with metallic rope fringe. It all goes to show, buttoned up or dressed down, the military jacket is surprisingly versatile.
