Men’s Spring Coats & Outerwear for 2025: Styling What’s In

Don’t forget: April showers bring May flowers. Spring introduces warm, sunny weather gradually, sometimes slowly (depending on where you live) — hence, men still need coats and outerwear. So, what’s in for 2025? Fortunately, there’s a wide range of classics and fashion-forward options representing all personal styles. Whether it’s warm or windy or even raining, these practical, function-forward jackets are trending yet trend-resistant.

Norfolk Jackets and Safari Jackets

The old-money aesthetic has exploded in the past year or two. Norfolk and Safari jackets are good examples of this lifestyle-based elegance that is nonetheless versatile. They feature pockets throughout the front, providing a subtle workwear quality, though the belt ensures a more dynamic silhouette. Think of them as a classier chore coat. Norfolks are for cooler days and are built heavy for outdoor estate sports, while safaris are light cotton or linen.

How to Style Norfolk and Safari Jackets

These jackets pair most naturally with old-world sporting clothes, like those for hunting, riding, and, of course, going on safari. Consider linen pants and button-ups with a safari jacket or tweed pants and corduroys with a Norfolk. They’re also excellent choices for guys who want to add sportiness to dressier outfits. Norfolk and safari jackets are rugged yet elegant, unlike a super formal overcoat or an overly casual trucker jacket. 

Harrington Jackets

The Harrington is the quintessential spring jacket. It’s light enough for warm but windy days, yet more substantial than a windbreaker. Harringtons have a standing collar, which gives them some formal structure without looking stuffy. Other defining features include an umbrella yoke, reverse flap pockets, and, often, a cool patterned lining. Any guy can sport a Harrington, as it’s as classic as a Norfolk but as cool as a bomber jacket.

How to Style Harrington Jackets

There’s really no wrong way to wear a Harrington. Over your work suit? Go for it. With jeans and a T-shirt? No problem. If you want to match its utilitarian but cleanly stylish composition, go for equally structured informal pieces. Consider button-downs over button-ups, chinos over jeans or dress pants, and layers like vests and pullovers. Wear it closed to achieve a modern minimalism or open so the patterned lining can serve as a fun accent.

Leather Jackets

Minimalism is trending this year, so when we say leather jackets, we don’t necessarily mean moto jackets. No worries if you love a good moto; they’re always in style. In 2025, you might consider pocketless leather chore coats or leather racing jackets. Besides, good leather is also worth the investment since it wears in instead of wearing out. It’s one of the few menswear categories that get better with age.

How to Style Leather Jackets

A tried-and-true black or brown leather jacket is a spring go-to because it’s a great way to experiment with new palettes. If you want to try pastels or florals but are a touch hesitant, there’s nothing like a traditional racer to temper the season’s lively colors. And if you realize that a floral shirt was a big mistake, just zip the jacket up. Leather jackets also look great with spring essentials like white sneakers, chinos, and knit polos.

Waxed Trucker Jackets

A waxed trucker jacket is as good in spring as much as it is in fall and winter. It’s sufficiently layerable in the cold seasons and looks great on a breezy spring walk on the beach. And hey, don’t forget how rainy the first part of spring can be — waxed canvas was literally designed for sailors at sea. Moreover, like leather, it gets better with age since the wax patinates with your movements. It’s almost as if, at the end of the day, each waxed trucker is one of a kind. The patinations beautifully tell your personal story.

How to Style Trucker Jackets

Workwear will never go out of style. You can, of course, wear your trucker with jeans, button-downs, boots, and other utilitarian pieces. It’s a reliably handsome combination. However, this spring, may we suggest going for a contrasting look? See how you feel pairing an open trucker jacket with a sun-faded blue polo, salmon button-down, or a mint flannel. You might dress it up on cooler days with a silk or cashmere scarf and some light-colored slacks.

Uniquely-Colored Corduroy Jackets

You might be thinking that corduroy is a fall staple, not spring. This year, though, the world of menswear is remixing the traditional corduroy jacket. So many brands and trusty workwear clothiers are making unlined corduroy jackets in reds, bright greens, and yellows. A garnet corduroy jacket is a great option. It adds a season-appropriate cheeriness that isn’t overly loud.

How to Style Corduroy Jackets

This season, you can have a lot of fun with a corduroy jacket that isn’t in shades of brown or black. An unlined corduroy in a spring hue like marine blue or garnet would add a strapping quality to a t-shirt and shorts combination. A favorite spring-smart casual combination? Wear a sky blue dress shirt, cream cable knits and slacks, and a tie that’s tonal to the corduroy jacket of your choice. It’s a subtle high-low that looks natural because of the palette.

Topcoats and Minimalist Trench Coats

Remember when we said minimalism is in this season? Well, nothing says that more than the deluge of beltless, layerless trench coats flooding the runways. Fashion aside, topcoats and minimalist trench coats are practical and dapper options for spring outerwear. Go for a topcoat on colder days and a trench on rainy or windy days. A topcoat is usually more formal. Still, the clean lines of a plain trench wouldn’t look out of place over a suit.

How to Style Topcoats and Trench coats

There are two main ways to style these jackets. The first is with formal, professional, and business casual outfits. Going for a trench or topcoat is the most conducive option if you’re ever wearing a suit jacket or blazer. However, you can also go full minimal — wear an all-white outfit (save the all-black for winter), perhaps a turtleneck and slacks. Then, throw on a non-white coat over it. Also, spring colors, like sherbets and verdant greens, look fantastic with a minimal trench.

Rain and Wind Jackets

Rain and wind gear continue to be huge this season. The best part about this is that you practicalists just trying to protect yourself from the weather will look stylish, incidentally. Windbreakers are perfect for days that are only cold because of the wind versus the actual temperature outside. Meanwhile, rain jackets are good for showers as well as those cool spring evenings.

How to Style Rain and Wind Jackets

Want to know one of the best things about windbreakers and raincoats? They don’t look ridiculous in bright colors, and you can wear them with shorts. This simply isn’t the case with a trucker jacket. You can basically wear each with any combination, no matter what the dress code. Here’s a fun style tip, though. If you wear a detailed and tactically built raincoat with shorts or any simple outfit, it adds dynamism to the silhouette.

Bomber Jackets

A bomber jacket, originally made for pilots, is often made from leather or nylon and has a ribbed elastic waist and cuffs. What the bomber is to outerwear is what the chronograph is to men’s watches. These days, the lines have been blurred between Harringtons and bombers. As a rule, though, the latter is indeed more purpose-built, making it sportier and more casual. So, if you’re the type of guy who’d rather wear a tool watch over a dress watch, then the bomber is for you.

How to Style Bomber Jackets

A bomber is inherently more youthful than a Harrington, so that you can pair it with trendy clothes. You can lean into that by adding fun patches, wearing it with oversized jeans, or pairing it with soft spring colors. Or, you can lean into the bomber’s more professional, utilitarian vibe. Wear it with jeans and loafers or a button-down and chinos. Either works! This is especially true this season since spring grants menswear a broad color palette.

Add a Pop to Your Spring Outfit

Of course, with in-between seasons like spring and fall, the most important thing to consider is the practical aspect of it. Don’t wear a lined trucker jacket if it’s unseasonably warm out. Don’t go for a light windbreaker if an early March day sneaks into the middle of April. After that, spring coats and outerwear are an easy, effortless way to add dynamism, color, or structure to your spring combinations. Even more, the popular designs for 2025 are all so adaptable — have fun choosing your jacket!