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Twenty-four men’s pieces go on sale September 26 at noon Tokyo time, ten of them outerwear. The first two autumn deliveries carried one jacket apiece.
Saturday, September 26, at noon Japan time is when the DAIWA PIER39 Official Online Store opens its 2026 Autumn Winter 3rd Delivery, with orders shipping in sequence from Monday, September 28. The numbers say more than any single garment does. The men’s page for the 3rd Delivery lists 24 items: ten outerwear pieces, six bottoms, four tops and four accessories. The 1st Delivery on July 25 was 13 items, ten of them tops and just one jacket. The 2nd Delivery on August 29 was 12 items built around sweats, scuba knits and flannel, again with a single jacket. All three deliveries go on sale on Saturdays at noon, five weeks apart for the first two and four weeks apart for the second and third. Shirts and sweatshirts came first. The coats to wear over them arrive third.
Signal. What happened: DAIWA PIER39 announced on September 18 that its 2026 Autumn Winter 3rd Delivery will be sold through the Official Online Store, with a men’s collection page and a women’s collection page of 24 items each. Exact object: the men’s page lists ten outerwear pieces, led by the TECH ANGLER CHORE COAT at ¥57,200, the TECH BRITISH SHORT HUNTER JACKET at ¥52,800 and the TECH PERTEX® REVERSIBLE HIKER CARDIGAN at ¥49,500, and prices across the drop run from ¥7,700 to ¥57,200 with tax included. When and where: Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 12:00 JST on the DAIWA PIER39 Official Online Store, shipping from Monday, September 28. Source: the label’s own news post and 3rd Delivery collection page. Why it matters: this is the delivery where the season’s outerwear lands, ten of 24 men’s items against a single jacket in each of the first two drops, which gives the earlier shirts and sweats their outer layer. Earlier DRIFT: the earlier BARACUTA x DAIWA PIER39 piece on the reversible G9 collide made for BEAUTY&YOUTH.
The women’s page runs to 24 items as well: 20 W’s versions of the men’s garments at identical prices, plus the same four accessories. Outerwear prices run from ¥29,700 for the fleece pullover to ¥57,200 for the angler chore coat, and four of the ten pieces cost ¥52,800 or more.
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The season brief, posted July 17, looks backward on purpose. The 2026 Autumn Winter collection reinterprets what the label calls “old fishing” from the 1980s and returns to classic design and detailing, then updates the period materials with newly developed fabrics. The range spans light, medium and heavy weights and pairs high-tech functional cloth with classic textiles, so garments made of different materials can be layered together. Two threads continue from the previous season: fabrics made from recycled fishing nets, and an artificial protein material produced from plant-derived biomass by microbial fermentation.
Read the product pages in sequence and a few details repeat. Most of the jackets set the sleeves forward and add action pleats, a military detail that widens the arm’s range of movement, and their cuffs adjust so the fabric does not bunch. Inside, several coats are stitched into pockets of assorted sizes meant for tackle cases, lure cases and a phone. The tackle box has moved inside the coat.
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The TECH ANGLER CHORE COAT is the most expensive item in the drop at ¥57,200. Its shell is a dense nylon twill, 100-denier in the warp and 200-denier in the weft, finished with a wax coating that gives the cloth the shaded, worn-in look of older field jackets. The front carries patch pockets in assorted sizes plus a rod holder, the inside holds the tackle-case and lure-case pockets, and a mesh lining keeps the coat from clinging. Colors are dark navy, dark olive and khaki.
The same waxed nylon twill and the same three colors return in the TECH MIL MECHANICS JACKET, at ¥52,800. According to its product page it updates a jacket worn by the US Air Force, keeping the slanted chest flap pockets that make small items easy to reach. Down at the hem it borrows from hunting jackets, with large flap pockets that wrap from the front toward the sides, and an added rod holder turns it into a fishing garment.
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Hunting is the direct reference for the TECH BRITISH SHORT HUNTER JACKET, also ¥52,800, which the label describes as a short wading jacket inspired by European hunting coats. The fabric is the trick. It looks like oiled cloth but is woven from polyester and nylon (70 and 30 percent) with a glossy finish, and the collar is polyester corduroy with a chin strap. Big front pockets are joined by hand-warmer pockets. It comes in black and dark brown.
One jacket breaks from the textile theme: the TECH SYNTHETIC SKIN CHORE JACKET (¥49,500). It comes in black only, and its shell is an animal-free synthetic skin finished to resemble real leather, lined and padded with polyester. The oversized pockets that run from the front to the sides come from hunting jackets, with smaller pockets inside them for gadgets. The drop also includes TECH SYNTHETIC SKIN WORK PANTS at ¥36,300.
The 1990s supply the reference for the TECH WADING JACKET CORDUROY (¥49,500), a decade the label pictures as overflowing with appealing fishing gimmicks and details. The source is a wading jacket known for large flap pockets across the chest. Here it is cut in fine-wale polyester corduroy woven from 150-denier yarn in both directions, with hand-warmer pockets added and the big flap pockets updated so they can also be used from the side. Dark navy is joined by a second colorway the product page lists as B.GREEN.
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The Pertex pieces make the fishing connection literal. The TECH PERTEX® REVERSIBLE HIKER CARDIGAN(¥49,500) uses lightweight Equilibrium fabric from Pertex made with NetPlus, the nylon Bureo produces from discarded fishing nets, and a reversible vest at ¥35,200 sits alongside it under the same Pertex name. Pertex describes NetPlus as 100 percent post-consumer recycled net, and its partnership with Bureo, reported in October 2024, put the material into Equilibrium alongside the Quantum and Shield fabrics.
On the DAIWA PIER39 side, the cloth has Pertex’s double-weave construction and a durable water-repellent finish, and the body is insulated with 3M Thinsulate, which keeps the cardigan thin. The reverse is the point. One face is quilted in a grid of stitching, and the other carries several pockets, some hidden behind concealed zips. The cardigan comes in black, charcoal with light brown, and dark navy with dark brown.
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For wind rather than cold, there is the WINDSTOPPER® HIKER COACH JACKET at ¥52,800. Gore positions its WINDSTOPPER products by GORE-TEX LABS for dry, windy days, offering windproof, breathable and water-resistant protection without full waterproofing. The shell here is woven from 75-denier recycled polyester yarn with a soft, cotton-like hand and an environmentally minded water-repellent finish. A large hunting-style pocket on the back has ventilation, more pockets fill the inside, and a mesh lining keeps it from feeling sticky. It comes in black, dark navy, dark brown and B.GREEN.
The TECH MIL FLEECE JACKET takes its cue from the US military’s ECWCS layering system, a modular cold-weather kit that, in its third generation, stacks seven layers from base layers to insulated parkas. DAIWA PIER39’s version is a stand-collar jacket in a long-pile, high-loft fleece made with recycled polyester yarn, with a grid structure that holds warmth while letting air through. Hand-warmer pockets and a chest zip pocket are joined by a full-mesh lining that lets it work as an outer layer or an inner one. It runs ¥39,600 in black, navy, light brown and smoke green, with a pullover and pants at ¥29,700 each and a fleece flight cap at ¥9,350.
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Fine-wale corduroy runs through the TECH FLYING SHIRT CORDUROY (¥44,000, dark navy) and its paisley version(¥46,200, dark brown). Per the paisley shirt’s product page, the pattern is the US Air Force flying shirt with its four flap pockets across the front, and the fishing additions are a rod holder, small extra pockets and another pocket on the back. TECH MECHANICS PANTS CORDUROY (¥31,900) take their pattern from utility pants issued to US Air Force mechanics, with zippered side pockets covered by large patch pockets to form a double pocket, a tool pocket sized for a phone, and drawcords at the waist and hem. A paisley pair costs ¥34,100, and the official lookbook wears the plain corduroy pants with the WINDSTOPPER coach jacket and the Pertex cardigan.
BDU-style trousers arrive as the TECH 6P FIELD PANTS HERRINGBONE (¥36,300), cut in polyester herringbone woven with a stretch yarn and given a natural crinkle finish so the synthetic cloth handles like cotton. The vintage details are side pockets, side adjusters and front flap pockets, and the fishing updates are a mini pocket added to the side pockets that works when seated, drawcords at the hem and cords at the waist for attaching suspenders. They come in charcoal and sage.
The lookbook, 17 looks in all, is also where the drop admits it belongs to something larger. It styles the new outerwear with pieces from the first two deliveries: the TECH MESH PANTS and TECH MESH CREW L/S from July, the TECH SCUBA KNIT PANTS from August. Beneath everything sits a new base layer. The TECH THERMAL CREW L/S(¥13,200) is a waffle-knit polyester made with a stretch yarn, its textured surface touching the skin only at points to limit clamminess, and it comes in black, navy, light olive and ecru. A henley costs ¥14,300 and thermal pants ¥13,200.
Accessory come down to the TECH ALL WEATHER DAYPACK at ¥22,000, a waterproof, breathable pack in recycled polyester with thin padding, an organizer in the front pocket and a main-compartment sleeve for a 13-inch laptop, plus caps in WINDSTOPPER, corduroy and fleece, from ¥7,700 to ¥9,350.
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DAIWA PIER39 belongs to a company that makes reels and rods. According to the label’s concept page, DAIWA began in overseas OEM reel production, was founded in 1958 as Daiwa Seiko, started selling reels in Japan in 1962 and reached the top of world fishing tackle sales in the 1970s. The apparel line is published under the name of parent company GLOBERIDE, which holds the copyright on every page of the label’s site.
The label arrived with Spring/Summer 2020, Highsnobiety reported, and its first drop sold out instantly in Japan. It is credited to Shinsuke Nakata, who joined BEAMS in 2000 as opening staff at Harajuku’s BEAMS PLUS and became its director in 2012, according to a profile from the retailer DIVERSE. The stated concept is a bridge between wilderness and city, with clothes that serve fishing and daily life alike.
An outside connection has already surfaced this season. In August, Houyhnhnm covered a Baracuta x DAIWA PIER39 jacket made for BEAUTY&YOUTH’s 20th anniversary, a reversible rebuild of the G9 with a monotone nylon face and a Fraser tartan reverse in colors the label specified, priced at ¥63,800. That is more than any item in the 3rd Delivery.
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The official notice sets ground rules the label repeats with each drop. Purchase quantities are limited per item so that more customers can buy. Carts do not reserve stock, and inventory is secured only when payment completes. Orders cannot be cancelled once the sale contract is formed, and returns or exchanges for the customer’s convenience are refused. The label may change or cancel orders it judges to be for resale or fraudulent, and some sizes and colors will not be sold. The men’s pages checked run from S to XL.
Delivery may also run late. A notice linked from the top of every page of the site says shipments to some regions can be delayed after the July 28 Kumamoto earthquake, and it points customers to Yamato Transport’s delay page for parcel tracking. The label’s news archive shows its last two seasons ran to five deliveries each: spring 2026 closed with a fifth announced on May 15, and last autumn’s fourth and fifth were announced on October 17 and November 7, 2025. The 26AW navigation lists three so far.
