Eddie Bauer Males’s Final Voyager Journey Blazer

Great Casual Fashion Piece for Long Flights, Not a Replacement for a Blazer
This blazer is light, comfortable and built for traveling with all those secure zip pockets (perfect for some parts of Europe if you get what I mean….). If you’re looking for something casual to pair with some jeans and a t-shirt while you travel, this will definitely fit what you’re looking for.Fit-wise, I’m a Medium and the 40 fits me just good. A little bit of stretch and room for me to move around with luggage, but not too loose that I look goofy. I read one reviewer claims that the design is weird with extra button near the lapel neck. However, this reviewer must had never worn a trench-coat. This design for extra windy or rainy conditions so you can flip the lapel and button up around the neck to wear it like a coat. I found this design a pretty nice plus for the Ultimate Voyager Travel Blazer because you’ll never know what kind of weather you’ll run into traveling.However, if you’re looking to buy this to pack one less blazer for clubbing or a business trip, don’t get this. This Ultimate Voyager Travel Blazer is not built for that. The comfortable material is wrinkly and doesn’t hold the shape that you want for a formal fitted blazer or suit jacket.As for the pricing, I agree that the pricing $140+ is a little steep. However, if you can get it on sale for $70~ or so, I would say it is a fair deal. I highly recommend that if you’re interested to buy it from Amazon due to their easy exchange and return policy compared to Eddie Bauer.

Great for traveling
I am a big fan of this jacket. Bought this for my trip to Europe, and it didn’t disappoint. It easily dresses up a t-shirt and jeans. Plenty of pockets for passport, cell phone, sunglasses, etc. My favorite part was the zippered inner pockets to keep your wallet secured. Bonus is that it’s water resistant.

Cheaply made, poor fit and sizing and it is wrinkles. All that for $149.
From a long-time Eddie Bauer customer…The product line has gone from great to poor and this item is a prime example. Nothing like it is described in the product description. It is definitely not a blazer. It is more like an ill-fitting over shirt. It screams cheap, cheap, cheap. It definitely wrinkles. (So much for the claimed non-wrinkle.) The construction boards on the amateurish. Would not buy it at $49 let alone at $149. Want to look like a real goof? Wear this.

Material different from the dark charcoal option.
I have both the navy and dark charcoal versions of this. The shell of the navy version has only 4% spandex whereas the dark charcoal has 7%. This probably accounts for the charcoal version being more crispy and less draping and crease-free looking than the navy version. I much prefer the charcoal version. It even feels better wearing it. The fit is normal for me. Based on the reviews I ordered a size larger but had to return it for my regular size. I like the variety of pockets in the coat, arguably its best point. However the stated placement of the pocket for a mobile phone is a bit awkward to get in and out especially if one is in a sitting position; and the pen holder is a bit too narrow to easily slip in a standard non-pencil-style pen. I modified the coat by sewing another pocket over the one for eyeglasses that is in a better position for my iPhone. That improves the functionality of the coat a lot. Thus, three stars for the Navy version and four stars for the Charcoal. One star off for the difference in the spandex content.