Jackets

thumb|right|A man wearing a sports jacket.

equipment to help the wearer keep afloat in water

thumb|A Posey Straitjacket (small-size) manufactured by The Posey Company. A straitjacket is a garment shaped like a jacket with long sleeves that surpass the tips of the wearer's fingers. Its most typical use is restraining people who may cause harm to themselves or others. Once the wearer's arms are in the sleeves, the person restraining the wearer crosses the sleeves against the chest and ties the ends of the sleeves to the back of the jacket, ensuring the arms are close to the chest with as little movement as possible.

thumb|right|A pinstriped suit with a notched lapel

lightweight white smock or coat traditionally worn over street dress or scrubs by doctors, technicians, and scientists

casual jacket originally worn by aviators

jacket made of leather

garment worn by men from the 15th to the 17th century

outer coat originally worn by sailors

thumb|left|A formal with two mon (emblem)|traditional Japanese emblems visible from the front thumb|right|Kitanoumi Toshimitsu wearing a formal black with emblems (a ); it is tied at the front with two white .

thumb|upright=1|A modern down jacket|down parka with faux-fur trim on the hood

thumb|A windbreaker with its "stowable" hood unstowed|alt=|280x280px A windbreaker, or a windcheater, is a thin fabric jacket designed to resist wind chill and light rain, making it a lighter version of the jacket. It is usually lightweight in construction and characteristically made of synthetic material. A windbreaker often incorporates an elastic waistband, elastic armbands and a zipper to allow adjustment for weather conditions.

quilted, padded jacket

any of a range of women's garments fitted closely through the bodice and over the hips; originally a tabbed or extended bodice, and latterly an undergarment similar to a torsolette

hip-length, belted jacket with two sets of patch pockets and a notched collar

elaborately braided Hungarian shell-jacket

Cold weather military jacket

type of jacket

thumb|A full set thumb| are only loosely sewn together for ventilation

clothing for skiing

right|thumb|150px|A 19th-century dancer from Shamakhi wearing an arkhalig An arkhalig is part of both male and female traditional dress of the peoples of the Caucasus and Iran.

jacket made of denim

thumb|World War II-era [[Red Army winter uniform consisting of a telogreika and an ushanka.]]

right|thumb|175px|An Austrian Bundespolizei blouson. right|thumb|175px|A modern nylon MA-1 flight jacket.

type of coat or jacket

personal protective equipment for use when riding a motorcycle

clothing

thumb|Rear of amauti, bearded seal fur.

right|thumb|250px|Woman's striped silk sack-back caraco, 1760s, altered 1780s. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.2007.211.3. A caraco is a style of woman's jacket that was fashionable from the mid-18th to early 19th centuries. Caracos were thigh-length and opened in front, with tight three-quarter or long sleeves. Like gowns of the period, the back of the caraco could be fitted to the waist or could hang in pleats from the shoulder in the style of a sack back. Caracos were generally made of printed linen or cotton.

item of clothing popularised by former Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru

Tangzhuang (), sometimes called Tang suit, is a kind of Chinese jacket with Manchu origins and Han influences, characterized with a mandarin collar closing at the front with frog buttons. It is an updated form of the Qing magua, itself a more fashionable adaptation of the riding jacket once worn by Manchu horsemen. Nowadays, the tangzhuang is one of the main formal clothing worn by Chinese men on various occasions; overseas Chinese also wear it as a form of fashion or to express their cultural identity.

lightweight flight jacket developed for the United States military

thumb|upright|A grey striped six-on-one double-breasted suit with jetted pockets, a style popular in the 1980s

protective vest or jacket containing overlapping plates of steel, aluminum, or bonded fiberglass, to protect against shell fragments and shrapnel

A cut-off, cut, kutte or battle vest (when sleeveless) and a battle jacket or patch jacket (regardless of sleeves), is a jacket adorned with patches related to the wearer's subculture or general interests. Patch jackets are generally made using denim jackets or leather jackets, often times with the sleeves cut off. They are a prominent part of various subcultures including bikers, metalheads and punks. In music subcultures, they are generally worn with patches for bands which the wearer is a fan of, whereas in the biker subculture, "colours" signify the wearer's motorcycle club and their rank

thumb|Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India (left), wearing a Jodhpuri suit, with [[Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, wearing a lounge suit]]

'''''' () is a variety of , or overcoat, in , the traditional Korean attire. It is a form of outerwear that is usually worn as the topmost layer of clothing over a (jacket) and (pants).

type of blanket

formal or semi-formal, open-front, waist-length dress jacket of military origin

thumb|An Adidas Helionic Down vest as an example of a modern design for a Hood_(headgear)|hooded down gilet, featuring seamless quilted pockets filled with down.

The Karakou is a long-sleeved fitted velvet jacket embroidered with golden and silvered threads, it is a traditional Algerian garment originating from Algiers.

line of motorcycle jackets from Schott

thumb|right|A British Army coatee from about 1815. A coatee is a type of tight-fitting uniform coat or jacket, which is waist length at the front and has short tails behind. The coatee began to replace the long tail coat in western armies at the end of the eighteenth century, but was itself superseded by the tunic in the mid nineteenth century.

thumb|Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester|Robert Dudley in a slashed, probably leather, jerkin of the 1560s A jerkin is a man's short close-fitting jacket, made usually of light-coloured leather, and often without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the 16th and 17th centuries. The term is also applied to a similar sleeveless garment worn by the British Army in the 20th century. A buff jerkin is an oiled oxhide jerkin, as worn by soldiers.

classification of high school or college athlete in the United States

military uniform garment

The Ghlila is a traditional Algerian jacket originating from Algeria, it is a trapezoidal jacket in velvet or brocade with a deep oval neckline, decorative buttons and enriched with embroidery notably featuring golden threads.

a costume used in student events

thumb|right|Single- and double-breasted jackets thumb|Barack Obama and Recep Erdoğan wearing single-breasted suits.