Kaptain Sunshine Makes a Cashmere-Linen Field Jacket and Wide Pants for COVERCHORD, Out November 14

By J. Fresh·Nov 9, 2026, 8:10 PM ET·Kaptain Sunshine

Key details

Collection: KAPTAIN SUNSHINE for COVERCHORD AW 2026
Pieces: Cashmere Linen Field Jacket and Shoecut Wide Easy Pants, black only
Prices: ¥150,000 jacket, ¥85,000 pants
Release: Saturday, November 14, 2026, 11am JST (9pm ET Friday)
Where: COVERCHORD online, Nakameguro and Fukuoka

Kaptain Sunshine, Shinsuke Kojima's Japanese label, has made a two-piece winter capsule for the Japanese retailer COVERCHORD. COVERCHORD announced it on Monday, November 9, and it goes on sale on Saturday, November 14, at 11am in Japan, which is 9pm ET on Friday, on COVERCHORD's online store and in its Nakameguro and Fukuoka shops. Both pieces come in black only, in sizes 3, 4 and 5.

The jacket is the Cashmere Linen Field Jacket, ¥150,000. COVERCHORD says it's a new design for this order: a cropped blouson, roomy through the body and armholes, in a twill woven with cashmere one way and linen the other, then washed until soft. The collar and the inside of the sleeves are leather, chrome-tanned, dyed and finished without pigment, and the lining is a wool flannel made from Australian Super 120's merino.

The young man with a charcoal-grey wool cropped jacket pulled up over his head against a blue concrete wall, with brown leather at the cuffs and drawcords at the hem

The trousers are the Cashmere Linen Shoecut Wide Easy Pants, ¥85,000, in the same fabric. They're built on the Easy Slacks first released in Autumn/Winter 2022, a staple of COVERCHORD's Kaptain Sunshine orders that the shop calls "a timeless favorite", recut wider, with a slight flare at the hem. The retailer pitches the two as a suit you can split up.

The back of a man walking down a quiet street in the black cropped field jacket and matching wide black trousers, past orange-and-white traffic bollards

This isn't the pair's first run. COVERCHORD says the cropped jacket and easy pants it has ordered from Kaptain Sunshine before were popular, and this season's versions update the fabric and the fit. It lands the same Saturday as Helly Hansen x STABRIDGE, the other Japan-only release that day.

Our read

A lot of the best Japanese menswear never reaches a runway. It comes out as betchu, special orders a shop commissions from a label it stocks, and this is a clean example: two pieces, one colour, three places to buy them. The detail worth noticing is the fabric. Linen is a summer cloth, and putting it against cashmere for a winter jacket, lined in flannel, is the kind of decision a label makes for a shop that knows its customers will pay ¥150,000 for texture rather than a logo. COVERCHORD's online store ships overseas by DHL, though the announcement doesn't say whether these two pieces will, and it gives no quantities.