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I Just Tried On COS’s Newest Jackets, Boots, Knitwear and Jeans—Here’s What Stood Out

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I Just Tried On COS’s Newest Jackets, Boots, Knitwear and Jeans—Here’s What Stood Out

Welcome to The Great Try-On. With autumn well and truly in the air, we seized the opportunity to try on some of the best new-in pieces from some of your favourite brands, documenting the process along the way. We believe that the best way to shop online is to see an item IRL and to read candid reviews, so we hope that this leads you to your most successful purchases of the year.

The start of any season can be overwhelming; just when you get into the swing of dressing for a particular climate and forecast, almost overnight, you have to reevaluate what works and what doesn’t when the new season decides to begin, basically without warning. And right now, I’m going through this process now that it’s autumn. I love autumn, always have—it’s the time of year I feel most myself. A homebody through and through, I love nothing more than creating a cosy space to relax in, save perhaps taking a stroll around my neighbourhood (preferably with a hot chocolate in hand) and hearing the leaves crunch underfoot. However, this autumn is different as I feel very unprepared for it. Why? Because I genuinely don’t have much in the way of an autumn wardrobe any more. It’s been years since I properly stocked up on knitwear, boots and coats, to the point where, when I took what I did have down from the loft where it’s been hiding since April, I was struck at how little there was. My knitwear has seen much better days, and my coats, well, they’re looking a bit tired, too. In terms of boots, my more practical pairs are still as solid as ever, but the pointed-toe style design I snapped up from Arket four years ago hasn’t aged quite as well, the once sharp point now a blunt stub. That’s it, I thought—I’ll nurse what I can, but I can’t put off making a few key autumnal investments any longer. I’ll have to go shopping, by which I mean in-real-life shopping, not online for a change. And for my first port of call? It was always going to be COS.