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Travel Essential leather bomber jacket

This Travel Essential bomber jacket highlights Emporio Armani's meticulous craftsmanship and signature appeal. Made from smooth leather, it’s embroidered with the brand's EA logo, creating a unique quilted motif.

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The model is 1.75 m wearing size 40

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• Attached hood with drawstring
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• Two hand pockets at front
• Travel capsule included

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• External fabric: 100% polyester; internal fabric: 62% polyester/20% viscose/15% wool/3% elastane

The Best Men's Travel Blazers in 2024, Tested by Style Editors

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Best Overall Travel Blazer

Relwen flyweight flex blazer.

Best Hopsack Travel Blazer

Brooks brothers traditional fit stretch wool hopsack blazer.

Best Unconstructed Blazer

Buck mason carry-on jacket.

Best Classic Travel Blazer

Wills all seasons stretch wool blazer.

Best Dressy Travel Blazer

Charles tyrwhitt proper blazer.

Best Budget-Freidly Travel Blazer

Haggar smart wash performance blazer.

Most Stylish Travel Blazer

Todd snyder italian linen madison suit jacket in naval blue pinstripe.

Lululemon Venture Blazer

Faherty Brand Inlet Knit Blazer

J.Crew Slim-fit garment-dyed cotton-linen chino suit jacket

Men’s travel blazers provide style and function throughout your trip, not just in transit. Anytime you are away from home, you tend to carry more stuff around. Which is why you’ll be glad to have three to five extra pockets on you. You can’t always predict weather in your final destination, so having an extra versatile layer comes in handy. The best advice for any travel is to be prepared for the unexpected, so having a semi-formal jacket on hand is always clutch.

What really sets men’s travel blazers apart from traditional jackets are fabrics and construction designed for comfort and wrinkle resistance. Instead of traditional suiting wool or chino cotton, you’ll find fabric blends that provide stretch, breathability, and hold their shape. The fits are often cut looser, with seams moved around to allow better range of motion. Whether you wear it during travel or unpack it when you get to your destination, once you’ve experienced the benefits of a men’s travel blazer, you won't leave home without one.

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Functionality is key to a great travel blazer, and Relwen has it in spades. The three exterior patch pockets are similar to any casual blazer, but the large interior pocket has a zip closure with a vertical opening for easy access. It is ideal for stashing valuables. On top of that, a discrete snap closure pocket is tucked into the back along the right hand vent.

A four button design plus a throat latch allow you to button all the way up to your neck like a true jacket, while functional buttons on the sleeves allow you to roll them up. That means this blazer covers a very wide range of temperatures.

What impressed us most was the look. At face value, this is a just a great looking cotton blazer, appropriate for work or semi-formal events. All that function is cleverly tucked away in a stylish package.

If you prefer a more traditional sports coat look, then hopsack is the way to go. It is a special type of weave designed to resist wrinkling and enhance breathability. Brooks Brothers has been making hopsack blazers since your grandfather wore them, and they still make one of the best out there. Essentially, this is a classic sport coat built in a light and flexible fabric.

It is fully lined, which is actually great for keeping the shape of the jacket intact. Standard three exterior and two interior pockets provide plenty of cargo space. Double vents allow the jacket to drape comfortably when you sit.

We loved having this traditional look on vacation, because it allowed the rest of our attire to skew even more casual. A proper suit-esque jacket can elevate shorts and a polo with near mystical ability.

This style is also available in a slim fit as well as blue .

Carry it on or wear it, either way, this is one of the most comfortable blazers we've ever worn. Buck Mason, one of our favorite menswear brands , built an unstructured jacket that feels closer to a shirt in the best way. The sleeves are cut like a shirt with a soft shoulder and no buttons on the cuff. No vent was added to the back because honestly the fabric doesn't require one. A three-roll-to-two button button design allows you to wear the front relaxed and open or close it up with a lifted collar.

The fabric was the true standout to us. The cotton with a touch of spandex is incredibly light and flexible, really driving home the shirt-like feel of this jacket. If we had to pick a single jacket on this list to wear on a long flight, the Carry-On would probably be our choice.

So admittedly, Wills doesn't advertise this jacket as a travel blazer, but from our field testing, we found that it definitely performs like one. The key factor is the stretch wool fabric, which is actually 60% wool, 38% polyester, and 2% elastane. That particular blend makes the jacket lighter, softer, and more flexible than a standard wool blazer. Other than that, it is tricked out with all the features you would expect from a traditional blazer.

That said, we recommend reserving this one for travel during colder months. It is still mostly wool, half canvas, and fully lined, which is great when you need a light outer layer for brisk weather. The bottom line is that we loved this blazer for the traditional look and we were pleasantly surprised by the comfort on the go.

For those trips that require you to look your best - be it business or pleasure—you need a travel blazer that looks like a proper suit. Fortunately, Charles Tyrwhitt has you covered with the Proper Blazer. A strong shoulder, eloquent pocket design, and kissing cuff buttons all portray classic tailoring. So what makes this a great travel blazer? A combination of the fabric and the interior design.

Charles Tyrwhitt uses a loose basket weave wool that adds breathability and flexibility while fighting off wrinkles. The interior is only half lined and features a front panel canvas, which means the back is only a single layer of fabric. So you have less weight and more ventilation.

We wore this blazer with a hoodie and jeans on the way to a wedding. Then we outfitted it with a shirt, tie, and pinstripe slacks and nailed the "formal attire" dress code.

Haggar went with a tried and true classic here. A patch pocket sport coat in stretch cotton chino is the fundamental travel blazer. There is no lining, canvas, or vent because there doesn't need to be. The cotton is sturdy enough to hold its shape, with just enough stretch to move with you. A boxy shoulder makes more free range of motion. Three patch pockets provide easy access.

Honestly, the feature that impressed us the most here is the price. A well built causal chino blazer for under $100 is a steal. We've tried our fair share of similar jackets that cost much more, and the Smart Wash Performance Blazer more than holds its own.

There are few looks more elegant than a pinstripe blazer. Todd Snyder created one that is actually part of a suit but we argue works even better solo. The 100% linen fabric is breezy and leaves you unencumbered. A partial and vented lining provides just enough structure without limited any flexibility. Large patch pockets allow for easy carrying.

What really sold us on this blazer is the overall look. The indigo blue pops, especially in sunlight. We wore it with linen trousers and a t-shirt on vacation and felt like billionaire going low-key. It matches perfectly with jeans and loafers . You can even make a proper suit out of it if you get the matching pants.

Lulelemon's put their signature touch on the travel blazer. We have to start with the fabric, which lives up to the brand's reputation as unbelievably soft and stretchy. With snaps instead of buttons and side vent pockets, there is inspiration from a coach's jacket here. Where there isn't much pocket space, the comfort factor more than makes up for it.

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In an effort to max out comfort, Faherty made a blazer out of a stretch jersey knit. This is seriously the most comfortable blazer we've ever worn. However, it comes off more like a cardigan-blazer hybrid, which we think is the point. You could just as comfortably lounge around the house as travel the world in this blazer.

For year now, J.Crew's cotton-linen chino suit jacket has been in regular rotation for us at the office and pretty much everywhere else. This blazer embodies the idea that if you nail the simple things, you can't go wrong. Three exterior and one interior pockets are all large, allowing for plenty of cargo space. The fabric is super soft and has plenty of give. Best of all, it just goes with everything.

Emporio Armani Techno Jersey Blazer

Armani is famous for top-of-the line suiting, but its take on the travel blazer is a complete reinvention. The fabric is a unique blend of polyamide and elastane that feels more like workout gear than a suit. Cuff buttons were removed from the sleeves and the chest pocket is gone too. There are exterior pockets, but with vented openings and no flap. No canvas, no vents, and hardly any lining make for a featherweight feel.

We loved the sleek, high fashion appearance that you would expect from Armani. However, the ridiculously comfortable feel of this blazer stole the show. Think of a track jacket mixed with your favorite cardigan sweater, and you're getting close to how cozy this blazer is. It is the blazer equivalent of flying first class—in look, feel, and price.

Richard James Navy Spirit Slim-Fit Wool-Hopsack Blazer

Richard James makes a gorgeous hopsack blazer. An unlined back allows the jacket to breathe and your body to move easily. Classic horn buttons and a wider lapel make for a more formal look. We loved the supple feel of this high end hopsack wool.

Reiss Kin Two-Button Blazer

Reiss built a blazer out of 100% viscose fabric, and we're absolutely here for it. The material that you usually find in aloha shirts, makes for a super lightweight and soft jacket. Thanks to the pearly white color, this is the perfect beach vacation jacket.

Mr. P Garment Dyed Cotton-Twill Blazer

Mr. Porter offers a luxe version of the patch pocket chino blazer from its in-house brand. While the blazer-meets- chore coat look is similar to other brands out there, the fabric really set this one apart for us. We loved how soft it felt and the slightly boxy fit made for great layering.

Original Madras Trading Co. Madras Check Unlined Sport Coat

Everything that we love about madras shirts is on full display with this madras blazer. The fabric is soft, breathable, and vibrantly colorful. This jacket got compliments literally everywhere we wore it, from the bar to a wedding.

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You don’t necessarily need to wear a travel blazer while traveling to your destination but it will certainly come in handy when you get there. Two great travel tips are to always have lots of pocket space available, and always be prepared for unexpected weather. Not only will you look more stylish, you’ll be able to stash any items you accumulate along the way. If the weather turns, you can button up and even flip up that collar.

How Do You Wear a Travel Blazer?

Think of your travel blazer more like a lightweight jacket. Any blazer in a dark, neutral color or simple pattern can go on top of pretty much any outfit. Whether you wear a button down shirt or a hoodie, throwing a blazer over it instantly levels up your look. Alas, we tend to not use the pockets of suits or formal blazers very often, but you should utilize all the pocket space of travel blazers.

What Is the Best Material for Men's Travel Blazers?

Comfort is key here. Men’s travel blazers are built to look like traditional blazers, while providing the feel and function of athletic outerwear. You can go the traditional route with linen or cotton hopsack, linen actually looks better with a little rumple to it and hopsack is the original anti-wrinkle fabric. Or you can go the modern route with tech fabrics that are stretchy and breathable, often woven in with wool or cotton.

Christian Gollayan oversees e-commerce content for Men's Health and Women's Health. Previously, he was the Associate Managing Editor at TheManual.com. Christian's work has also been featured in Food & Wine, InStyle, the New York Post, and Tatler Asia.

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Under Relentless Russian Assault, Ukraine Adopts a Defensive Crouch

As Moscow’s forces retake land from which they were ousted at the end of 2022, the Ukrainian military has adopted a strategy of fighting while slowly falling back to more heavily fortified positions.

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Reporting from villages in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine

• May 22, 2024

At a high point for Ukraine in its war against Russia, when its army was sweeping Russian forces from the country’s northeast, a small-town police chief proudly hung a Ukrainian flag on his newly liberated city hall.

A year and a half later, the policeman, Oleksiy Kharkivskyi, was dashing into the burning ruins of the same town, Vovchansk , last week to evacuate its few remaining residents as Russian forces closed in.

“Everywhere they come is just razed to the ground,” Mr. Kharkivskyi said of the advance of the Russian troops , who have returned to the region with a scorched-earth ferocity, setting in motion one of the largest displacements of people since the first months of the war.

Russian troops punched across the border between Russia and Ukraine this month and pushed toward Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, which has a population of about a million people. Military analysts say Russia lacks the troops to capture the city but could advance to within artillery range, touching off a larger flow of refugees.

Militarily, the incursion seems intended to stretch Ukraine’s already thin and underequipped forces by diverting troops from the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, still seen as the likely target of a Russian offensive this summer. It has also had the destabilizing effect of sending thousands of dismayed, disheartened people from the border region deeper into Ukraine.

After more than a week of fierce fighting, the Ukrainian Army has fallen back to more heavily fortified positions about five miles from the border, which they have held now for several days. Even more formidable positions — trenches, concrete tank traps and bunkers — lie farther to the rear.

Regional officials say the attack has so far displaced about 8,000 people, and a frantic effort is underway to evacuate stragglers, mostly older people, from towns and villages in the path of the Russian advance.

Many have fled villages that lay in front of the defensive lines, an area given over to skirmishing and ambushes, and heavily bombarded by Russian artillery.

While hardly ideal as a strategy — and accounts from commanders and soldiers suggest Ukraine executed it with some mishaps — the tactic of defending while retreating in small steps allows a weaker force to inflict heavy casualties on attackers. Those on the offensive must storm row after row of positions as they move forward, continually breaking cover and exposing themselves to artillery.

Ukraine, with insufficient troops as a mobilization effort stalled for months and short on ammunition as the U.S. Congress delayed a spending bill, has used the strategy out of necessity after Russian forces took the city of Avdiivka in February.

It comes, of course, at a cost of slices of territory — and of misfortune for those living on the wrong side of the fortifications the Ukrainians will probably fall back on.

Vasily Holoborodko, 65, a retired airplane mechanic, had remained on his farm even as he watched soldiers build tank traps and trenches on the wrong side of his property — away from the Russian border.

When the attack came, he was soon caught in the fighting. Mr. Holoborodko made a dash for safety on Thursday, passing burning houses and blown-up tanks — and the more robust defensive lines.

“We barely got out,” he said. In his rush to flee, he left behind his chickens, his cat and his dog “to whatever God will give them.”

The villages dotted around pine forests north of Kharkiv are picturesque jumbles of brightly painted one-story homes, with gardens freshly planted. The fighting retreat, however militarily sound, has meant surrendering some to ruin.

“The tactics of the Russians have changed radically compared to 2022,” said Capt. Petro Levkovskiy, chief of staff of the operational battalion of Ukraine’s 13th Brigade, referring to the invasion that February. At that time, he noted, “They came in columns, marching to Kharkiv, because they thought they would be welcomed.” Russia occupied the border area until September 2022.

This month, heavy artillery bombardments from across the border in Russia announced the latest attack. “They fire artillery at long distances, destroy everything, then small groups assault, but in large numbers, from different directions,” Captain Levkovskiy said.

On a drive north toward the border from Kharkiv last week, pickup trucks and armored vehicles sped in the same direction, while cars overstuffed with people, bags of clothes and pet carriers raced south.

Wildfires burned through the pines, and smoke rose from burning villages farther north.

Sprays of dirt from fresh artillery strikes spattered the road. The window for evacuating civilians from areas in front of Ukraine’s fortifications is closing.

Scenes of anguish unfolded as people left homes, and sometimes pets, at a moment’s notice.

When an evacuation team arrived at his home in Bilyi Kolodyaz, Pavel Nelup, 30, quickly threw a duffel bag into the car and clambered in as artillery rumbled nearby.

“It’s scarier this time” he said of the latest Russian attacks. “Now we understand they won’t leave anybody alive.”

His German shepherd, left behind for lack of space, stared balefully at him from a gap under the fence, whimpering.

A neighbor, Elena Konovalova, 58, emerged to say goodbye to Mr. Nelup. “My precious, see you later,” she said. “You will be all right.”

Vitaly Kylchik, a chaplain with the 110th Territorial Defense Brigade helping with evacuations, urged her to leave soon, too.

“Don’t sit and wait like the people in Vovchansk,” he said of the town to the north, from where plumes of black smoke were rising. The city hall where the flag was proudly hung after liberation is now a ruin, residents said.

Daria Sorokoletova 40, a resident of Vovchansk, fled on Wednesday. Just as she left her home, an artillery shell hit it, blowing it to smithereens.

“There is nothing there,” she said. “There is nowhere to go back to.”

Even as its citizens are forced to evacuate , the Ukrainian government has defended the strategy of retreating to the defensive lines. Russia has advanced over about 50 square miles and captured about a dozen villages, many now in rubble.

On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the Russian offensive had reached but not crossed a first line of defenses, beyond those villages.

“The first line is not the border,” Mr. Zelensky said. “It is impossible to build there because our people were getting killed” by artillery fire as they dug fortifications and laid mines, an effort that began in 2022 but intensified in recent months.

A guessing game for the generals awaits. How far Russia advances depends on how many soldiers both sides commit. For Ukraine, that calculation means moving defenders from other potential sites of attack.

“War is interactive,” Johan Norberg, a senior military analyst at Sweden’s Defense Research Agency, said in a telephone interview. “What the Ukrainians do or don't do is just as important as what the Russians do.” Capturing the city of Kharkiv, he said, would require Russia to commit “not just a few thousand but hundreds of thousands” of soldiers.

Residents have less assurances. After Ukraine reclaimed their village, Staryi Saltiv, in 2022, Mykhaylo Voinov, 63, and his wife, Olena Voinova, 54, repaired the roof, plugged shrapnel damage and replaced broken windows. In a lovingly manicured backyard, bird song mixed with the rumble of artillery.

“We live our life to the fullest, even knowing at any time we might have to pack and leave,” Ms. Voinova said. “Of course it’s very hard, but this is our land, we are ready to rebuild again and again.”

In one sign of the exodus, Elena Bubenko, 59, who takes in stray dogs and pets that her neighbors placed in her care before fleeing, is now caring for 116 dogs in the village of Tsykuni, north of Kharkiv.

If Ukrainian troops need to fall back beyond her village, she said, she would understand and just hoped to evacuate the animals in time.

“They should defend their own lives,” not the villages, she said. “Otherwise, who will be left to fight for us?”

Evelina Riabenko contributed reporting from the Kharkiv region.

Andrew E. Kramer is the Kyiv bureau chief for The Times, who has been covering the war in Ukraine since 2014. More about Andrew E. Kramer

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The decision by the Biden administration to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia  with American-made weapons fulfills a long-held wish by officials in Kyiv  that they claimed was essential to level the playing field.

In recent days, Ukraine has conducted a series of drone attacks inside Russia  that target radar stations used as early nuclear warning systems by Moscow.

Top Ukrainian military officials have warned that Russia is building up troops near northeastern Ukraine , raising fears that a new offensive push could be imminent.

Zelensky Interview: In an interview with the New York Times, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine challenged the West  over its reluctance to take bolder action.

Russia’s RT Network : RT, which the U.S. State Department describes as a key player in the Kremlin’s propaganda apparatus, has been blocked in Europe since Russia invaded Ukraine. Its content is still spreading .

Striking a Chord: A play based on a classic 19th-century novel, “The Witch of Konotop,” is a smash hit among Ukrainians who see cultural and historical echoes  in the story of what they face after two years of war.

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Our team of visual journalists analyzes satellite images, photographs , videos and radio transmissions  to independently confirm troop movements and other details.

We monitor and authenticate reports on social media, corroborating these with eyewitness accounts and interviews. Read more about our reporting efforts .

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