Barbour traces its origins back to 1894, when Scotsman John Barbour set up the operation in Newcastle’s South Shields. But ...

For day-to-day life, waxed cotton is all you need. Gore-Tex be damned.

Barbour offers a Re-Loved program in which you can recycle your old jacket at any store in exchange for an $80 voucher. You can add a hood or liner to most jackets at any point in time.

And there’s one fabric that’s more than a century old and still very much in use ... (along with the rest of the U.S. team) wore Barbour waxed jackets at the 1964 International Six Days ...