Shoot & Save

When we noticed a handsome quilted vest on a sharp-dressed guy in a Chicago bar recently, we asked where he found it. Barbour? Bastian? He seemed a tad embarrassed by our suggestions and sheepishly offered up that it was Chaps and that his girlfriend bought it for him—at Kohl's. Nothing against Kohl's per se, but it's a bold women who hands her Alden-wearing boyfriend a bag from a value-oriented department store. Intrigued, we brought up the Chaps site which links though to Kohl's (their official online retailer) where the nylon hunting vest, in navy or red and lined in a chocolate sueded fleece, will set you back less than a round of drinks.

• Ralph Lauren launched the Chaps label in 1978 as a line of enduring and affordable classics.