Wardrobe MVP: The OC Varsity Jacket Is Back

Among its various achievements, Harvard is known for its rigorous academics, its settings in critically acclaimed films like How High and Legally Blonde, and, most crucially, inventing the varsity jacket. In fact, the Harvard baseball team created the original letterman jacket—which looked more like a sweater with patches—in 1865, and since then, the jacket has evolved into a staple for jocks, street-style stars, and celebrities on and off campuses.

This season, the classic Opening Ceremony Varsity Jacket gets an elongated touch with an extended fit that touches just above the knee. With an added color palette consisting of marble green in addition to the classic black and heather grey, the outfit variations and color combinations are as seemingly endless as a Criminal Law 101 lecture. The classic wool body and contrast leather sleeves are also back with a subtle updated feature—the Opening Ceremony cube patch and a multi-colored heart patch that stands out against the stark-black leather.

With the Opening Ceremony Varsity Jackets making a triumphant return, you no longer have to be a student athlete enrolled in an Ivy League school to look like it.

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