Flak Jacket

Flak jackets are usually worn by chūnin and jōnin over their normal clothing in most villages, although the design varies among the villages. Although they are called jackets, they look more like a vest, or other similar garments. The jackets are among the most iconic pieces of shinobi equipment. Most of them have pockets, which can be used to store scrolls and also allow a ninja to access them with only one hand, as seen with Kakashi's case when he normally does this secretly to extract a kunai.

Styles
Each village has a different versions of this:
 * Konohagakure flak jackets are green. They have three scroll pouches on each side of their chest for scrolls, medicine, and other ninja tools. For protection they include a neck guard and extra padding over the shoulders. Newer versions feature pockets.
 * Sunagakure flak jackets are beige. They may or may not include shoulder padding, shoulder guards, neck guards, and scroll pouches over their stomachs.
 * Iwagakure flak jackets are brown. They have a large pouch over their stomach or the lower back of the vest.
 * Kirigakure flak jackets are slate gray. They come with or without a neck-guard but have elongated padding over the shoulders.
 * Kumogakure flak jackets are white. They have a rather utilitarian version with its only distinctive feature being that it has only one strap to hold it in place.
 * Otogakure flak jackets are purple. They are otherwise identical to Konoha's flak jackets.
 * In the anime, Takigakure flak jackets are sky blue. They are otherwise identical to Konoha's flak jackets.
 * In the anime, Hoshigakure flak jackets are blue. They are otherwise identical to Konoha's flak jackets.