I'm wearing a cat suit now with a zip-front jacket, which gives me coverage.

A zip-front waist-length jacket accompanies the rounded skirts, a Lacroix trademark, as well as some straight skirts.

A brown cordovanlike zip-front jacket, he says, is machine washable.

A men's wear-inspired chalk-striped one-button blazer is $625; a camel's hair jacket, $750, and a zip-front jacket of mellow leather, $895.

Cable-knit cardigans trimmed in leather, a zip-front safari jacket that molded to the body and rib-knit sweaters that laced up the front caught the mood perfectly.

He added opulent stand-up collars to zip-front jackets and paired them with drawstring knee-length skirts and clamdiggers in translucent nylon.

His Kim Jong Il suit, with its distinctive zip-front jacket, is tailor-made.

Donna Karan's charcoal wool hooded pullover ($580) and Theory's gray zip-front jacket ($240) are at Bergdorf Goodman.

Mr. Richard cut a body-conscious metallic steel blue, zip-front jacket, putting it over black wool shadow-striped capri pants.

Saks also has a zip-front jacket in multicolored stripes from Emanuel Ungaro's Emanuel collection.