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One of these is a collector's object. The other one you'll actually wear.

A patchwork sweatshirt at this money isn't really being sold as a sweatshirt. The Vintage Patch is put together panel by panel, arrives in neon purple and no other colour, and costs about what a decent winter coat costs. Buy it the way you'd buy a piece of art you intend to sit down in.

The striped crew underneath it is the shape that made the label, and in sand it does the one thing the purple can't: vanish into a Tuesday. Same fleece weight, same softened-before-it-ships finish, same needle work running the length of the arm. Two hundred dollars sits between them, and only one of the two agrees with everything else you own.

A crew neck asks more of whatever sits under it than a hood does, because there's no drawstring bulk to hide behind. Show the collar or leave the neck bare; the ground in between reads unresolved. Both cuts run generous through the body, so whatever size you take in a T-shirt is usually the size here.

The piece

Relaxed crew sweatshirt

Aviator Nation — Vintage Patch Relaxed Crew Sweatshirt, Neon Purple

$385at Aviator Nation

Find it for less

Aviator Nation — 5 Stripe Relaxed Crew Sweatshirt, Sand

$185— $200 less, for the one you'll reach for on an ordinary morning. Identical fleece weight, identical wearing-in, identical needle work down the sleeve. What goes is the patchwork, which is the entire reason the other costs what it does. Sand also fixes a problem neon purple creates, in that it agrees with the rest of your wardrobe. Full run in stock, XS to XXL

at Aviator Nation

Where it goes

The matching bottom half is a trouser cut from the same fleece, and it holds a crease about as well as you'd expect.

If you want the hood after all, the heavier version of this argument is a warmer buy.

Soft clothes travel best when there's a plan behind them, which is most of what a good flying kit is.

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