Born out of a necessity during a surprisingly rainy New York City evening in May of 2017, The Jacket Club was founded by four best friends: Hale, Zach, Chandler, and Roberto. The four share not only their time by the Bay at the United States Naval Academy, but also a love of fine sports coats, skipping practice parades, and spending time with friends in Downtown Annapolis at Acme, McGarveys or Dillos.
After graduation, as is tradition, all four friends swore to never return to the Yard and PCS’d to distant parts of the world serving in various positions and posts in the Navy and the Marine Corps, but always keeping in touch and united by their original Jacket Club. After spending four years apart, the original Jacket Club members reunited in San Diego, California. While helping one of the Jacket Club members move houses, the four reminisced on their time at USNA when they found an old “Blue Magnet”. They realized that although they spent all four years at USNA trying to escape the absurdity of midshipmen life, one thing that they did enjoy at the Academy was catching a nice post noon-meal formation nap, either in or on, the beloved “Blue Magnet”.
Enter, The Jacket Club. In order to commemorate the time shared by the Bay, these four friends thought what better way to combine their love of jackets and time shared in The Hall than have an actual piece of the Academy to wear. The Goat Jacket is hand crafted and designed to incorporate a piece of the Naval Academy that we hope present and past midshipmen like us can now wear anywhere around the world from downtown Annapolis to Yokosuka, Japan.
Whether it is on the field at the Navy and Marine Corps Stadium, on the Wesley Brown Track, in the Hall, in Nimitz trying to pass Calculus II, or your Firstie-year Dirt presentation on invading France, we encourage you to find your club that will last a lifetime. Until then, welcome in.
