--- title: "Jaeger jacket: Designer Notes" --- I guess that when you start designing sewing patterns as a man, sooner or later you are going to want to design a jacket. However, that's not why I did it. I got involved in this because I promised [Portia Lawrie](https://www.instagram.com/portialawrie/) that I would help her out with her Refashioners initiative and long story short, [I ended up making a zebra jacket](blog/the-refashioners-2017/) for which I obviously needed a pattern. So here it is. Йост