Show Us Your OVERCOATS

[Marc Chevalier]

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Below is my favorite overcoat. It's British, no label, and the construction and quality point toward the 1930s. A Donegal herringbone tweed -- dig those colorful flecks! Plain back.

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And here's one from a local Goodwill. From the later 1930s, I reckon. The wool has heathery variations of Fall colors, hard to pick up in the photos. It has the weight, density and slightly fuzzy texture of a horse blanket. Plain back, no half-belt.

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To be continued ...


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[Rooster]

I just picked up four of them the other day. One is dated 1950. I'll get some pics.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Yes! :eusa_clap

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[retrofashion]

Nice coats. I have a couple to post and also some other stuff. I need to get the time to take some pictures.
By the way, what's the difference between an overcoat, a topcoat and a greatcoat? Are they just different names for the same thing?

 

[AlanC]

My Oxxford, dated 1956 on the label:





Eldridge/Rothman's camel hair polo (don't know how old)

More to come...

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Interesting ... your polo coat has a collar that's more typically found on an Ulster coat. Like it!

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[Matt Deckard]

This mean I have to pull out my camera again?

I have several vintage though always tend to wear my moderns... hmm. Fine.

 

[Vintage Betty]

Repeat post from the Powder Room thread

Look what I found!

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I rarely go into this thrift shop, because it's picked over so much. But look what I found on my visit last week! The wool coat is in perfect condition and was $5!! The only thing I love more than the coat, is me wearing it!

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Happy happy me.

Vintage Betty

 

[Vintage Betty]

I LOVE THIS OVERCOAT!!!

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I LOVE THIS OVERCOAT!!!

VB

 

[Dinerman]

I have a couple. Nothing fabulous like the other ones on here. None of them are very good pictures of them, either.

(me goofing around. Disregard the cane and tennis shoes)

 

[AlanC]

Gieves & Hawkes Chesterfield:

 

[kpreed]

Overcoats

Some great stuff here!!!
Here is my trusty stand-by for the cold.

Wool (gray) and of unknown vintage.

 

[cookie]

Donegals

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I've got this sneaking hunch that the Lounge's "Jackets" section is mostly seen by the WWII leather coat crowd. Therefore, if it's o.k. with the bartenders, may I start a non-WWII, non-leather coat thread here?


Below is my favorite overcoat. It's British, no label, and the construction and quality point toward the 1930s. A Donegal herringbone tweed -- dig those colorful flecks! Plain back.

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And here's one from a local Goodwill. From the later 1930s, I reckon. The wool has heathery variations of Fall colors, hard to pick up in the photos. It has the weight, density and slightly fuzzy texture of a horse blanket. Plain back, no half-belt.

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To be continued ...


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Where can one purchase those 1930s style Donegals???[huh] You never see those patterns at Magee of Donegal's site.

 

[Vintage Betty]

Gieves & Hawkes Chesterfield:

Wow - this is great. I have a modern woman's version of this overcoat. Can we see a full-length photo?

VB

 

[Barry]

from OFAS...

I won this overcoat some time ago. It has a half belt. It also has a pocket with a small Talon zipper on the inside. There are no labels though. It's not super heavy but feels as though it will be very warm.

Barry

 

[Jovan]

Beautiful!

 

[thunderw21]

No labels on this one.

 

[Vintage Betty]

No labels on this one.

Wow-that's an incredible cut for a man's coat. Did you move the buttons or did it come like that?

Vintage Betty

 

[Dinerman]

These are all such beautiful coats. You all are so lucky to have them.

 

[thunderw21]

Wow-that's an incredible cut for a man's coat. Did you move the buttons or did it come like that?

Vintage Betty

Thank you. They came like that.