Marco Pescarolo Quarantuno Zip Jacket Dark Brown

The Quarantuno, Italian for forty-one, is a zip jacket in dark brown from Marco Pescarolo and a smart alternative to a blazer. It has a point collar, a shirt collar with pointed tips, and a two-way zip with two sliders on a clean, uncluttered front.

It is made in Italy. The cloth is virgin wool, wool spun for the first time rather than recycled, with a touch of elastane, a stretch fibre, for a smooth surface and a little give. The house's emblem is the Pulcinella mask, a figure from Neapolitan theatre, found on its labels, buttons and zips.

Its clean zip-jacket shape layers easily over a fine knit or a shirt, and the elastane gives comfortable movement. It is cut from the same cloth as the Dieci trousers in dark brown, so the two form a modern suit. Dark brown looks rich with cream, beige and light blue: wear it with cream or stone trousers, or with grey flannel, and brown suede boots.