Everlane launches new Canvas Collection: our review

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After months of covering your body head-to-toe in flannel, wool, long underwear, and fleece, we bet that you’re ready for a change of pace. Some texture (any other texture) to slap on your under-loved, under-sunned skin this January.

Winter isn’t over (far from it, especially if you live anywhere but California), but in Everlane’s new Canvas Collection, you may as well be.

Debuting just a few weeks ago, Everlane’s new collection features men’s and women’s parkas, pants, anoraks, overshirts, coveralls, and more, all aiming to elevate utilitarian designs. I’ve loved Everlane for a while, and know that they’re no strangers to attempting to design a uniform for life, but the Canvas Collection is something new, taking a step beyond the block color essentials into heavy-duty workwear.

A press release for the Canvas Collection describes the ethos behind the drop as “a high fashion sensibility blend with functional versatility to deliver effortlessly cool uniforms for every day.” Need we say more? They had us at “high fashion sensibility,” or maybe it was “blending with functional versatility”? Either way, they definitely had us as “effortlessly cool.”

Lucky for me, my grueling, years-long journey to become effortlessly cool got a whole lot easier, when Everlane gave me the opportunity to sample a few of their men’s products from their new Canvas Line, including the Canvas Organic Drawstring Pant, and the Canvas Organic Cotton Overshirt, which, I might add, pair together nicely.

One thing to know about me, reader? I’m a wide-legged pants kind of guy. I’m also a brand loyalist. Last fall, after discovering a brand of lightweight, wide-legged, belted pants, I bought five pairs, and I’ve been wearing them exclusively ever since.

That is, until I received these Canvas Organic Drawstring Pants, from Everlane’s Canvas Collection. Halfway between sweatpants and something a little more formal, the Canvas Organic Drawstring Pants immediately made me feel like Doc Sportello from “Inherent Vice”, or maybe like Carl Wilson circa “Sunflower,” or like an extra on the set of “Shampoo.” You get the idea: a lush green pair of pants, drawstring, the 60’s, California.

Everlane promises that, like every piece in their new collection, the Canvas Organic Drawstring Pants are made using a “centuries old, Japanese salt shrinking process,” which helps to give the pants their heft, and unique crinkle texture.

For me, at this time of year, there are three hurdles an overshirt has to make. One: does it fit comfortably under a winter coat? And two: can I comfortably wear a sweater under the overshirt? And three: can I comfortably wear the overshirt over a sweater, under a coat, all at the same time, and still lower my arms.

The Canvas Organic Cotton Overshirt, from Everlane’s new Canvas Collection cleared all three hurdles with ease. I was lucky enough to try on the Bone colorway (pictured above), but the warm, sturdy over-shirt also comes in Black and Cappuccino.

On a 35 degree night out last weekend, I wore the overshirt over a light wool sweater, and the following day, impressed with how handily the overshirt had passed the “light under-sweater” test, went so far as to sample how a thick wool and cashmere sweater would fare. It worked great! For a stylish, heavy, unique layer to add to your collection this winter, I can’t recommend Everlane’s Canvas Organic Overshirt enough.

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