You tend to find out quite quickly the true style essentials you need as autumn rolls into town, including rugged layers aplenty for brisk fall mornings and nights. The best men’s shirt jackets step things up considerably from even your rotation of stylish flannel shirts, and there’s perhaps no brand doing it better right now than Taylor Stitch.

The outfitter takes significant inspiration from its cloudy and cold home of San Francisco to develop hard-wearing, positively excellent styles like the Taylor Stitch Maritime Shirt Jacket, with beefy and rugged construction that’s expertly done in every way possible. And when one of those styles happens to go on sale, as I often say, well, that’s all the better.

In fact, the Taylor Stitch Maritime Shirt Jacket is part of a frequently rotated crew of stellar on-sale style staples from the outfitter, with durable construction and casually cool good looks to match — take a close look, and you’ll also see that your new favorite shirt jacket is about 50 percent off right now (while supplies last, of course).

Taylor Stitch started with a mission to make better shirts for men, and the Taylor Stitch Maritime Shirt Jacket is an evolution of that approach, boasting the brand’s signature face-framing collar while stepping up the fabrication via an ultra-warm 11-oz. 82% wool, 18% nylon twill blend.

In my experience, picks like this rugged shirt jacket from Taylor Stitch are utterly comfortable and surprisingly soft while delivering standout warmth in a thick, burly build.

And when it comes to this on-sale variety of the hard-wearing Taylor Stitch Maritime Shirt Jacket, there are plentiful style points up for grabs, as well — the Olive Plaid design is striking and works just as well with light grey denim as it does with olive chinos, black jeans, canvas work trousers and perhaps indigo selvedge denim.

Whether layered over a thermal henley or styled casually atop a pocket tee on a brisk fall morning (coffee in hand, naturally), the Taylor Stitch Maritime Shirt Jacket delivers dependable fabrication, easygoing good looks and the kind of classic design (note the everyday carry-ready chest pockets!) that my friends at Taylor Stitch always seem to offer up. Layer accordingly in the weeks ahead, my friends.