It’s more true now than ever, as we often say here on this Brooklyn style blog: Sometimes, the best style moves are the ones you’ve plotted out in advance, thinking ahead and envisioning the perfect #OOTD before the time actually rolls around.

Spring marks an ideal time to dive into that sort of preparation in matters of the best menswear essentials, especially as far as outerwear is concerned, and if you’ve got the chance to score some new threads on sale at a discount, that’s all the better. Throw in the chance to shop a famed modern retailer like Bespoke Post, and the going gets even better (rather than tougher — ya dig?).

Particularly when the Bespoke Post Sale section is packed with on-sale style gems from its own suite of in-house brands, like rugged, Americana-inspired Line of Trade, the (menswear) world is your oyster.

And since spring is an ideal time to lighten things up ever so slightly in the outerwear department, trading your parka for a trucker jacket (among other style moves), well, there’s never a bad time to rock something like the handsome, utterly classic and just-plain-cool Line of Trade Dakota Leather Jacket.

Marked down to $288 from $398 (not a bad price in its own right for a stylish leather jacket), there’s a mix of both heritage quality and rock n’roll cool to the Line of Trade Dakota Leather Jacket, which uses vintage-style burnished sheep leather in its construction. That means the Line of Trade Dakota Leather Jacket will only get better and develop its own patina over time, complete with traditional four-pocket trucker jacket design and contrast zig-zatc stitching at the placket.

The rugged Line of Trade Dakota Leather Jacket makes use of double-needle stitching at key stress points,and is finished off with everything you’d expect from one of the best trucker jackets for men, including metal shank buttons with an eye-catching zinc laurel pattern finish.

The details, as we so often say here on this menswear blog, make the difference, as the good folks at Bespoke Post say the small touches “underscore the craftsmanship behind the construction” of the essential, on-sale Line of Trade Dakota Leather Jacket — give it a shot this season (and note that plenty of sizes are available online!) and step into the sort of difference you can really feel when it comes to one of the best leather jackets.