What is different about a jacket that uses corduroy instead of the original waxed fabric?

While the original garment was a heavy oiled cloth soaked generously in oil, this jacket covers the entire body in soft corduroy^[1]. The original wax-coated fabric provides excellent wind and rain resistance, but it has a characteristic weight and must be stored separately in a well-ventilated, shaded area to prevent oil from rubbing off onto other clothes. On the other hand, corduroy is a ribbed cotton material, so oil does not transfer to hands, and it breathes naturally.

It is much lighter^[2]. Because it is unoiled fabric, it can be thrown on easily in everyday life, and there is no need to worry about the wax drying out or oxidizing^[3]. The base garment is the Borrowdale model, which adapted Barbour's Transport to suit urban casual wear^[4][5]. By placing corduroy onto this silhouette, DVERG has eliminated the hassles of the original fabric, which required reapplying dedicated wax every season and minding the odor^[6][7][8].