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A coat is typically an outer
garment Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on a human human body, body. Typically, clothing is made of fabrics or textiles, but over time it has included garments made from animal skin and other thin s ...
for the upper body, worn by any gender for warmth or
fashion Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, Fashion accessory, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into Clothing, outfits that depict distinct ...
. Coats typically have long
sleeve A sleeve (, a word allied to '' slip'', cf. Dutch ) is the part of a garment that covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips. The sleeve is a characteristic of fashion seen in almost every country and time period, across a myri ...
s and are open down the front, and closing by means of
button A button is a fastener that joins two pieces of fabric together by slipping through a loop or by sliding through a buttonhole. In modern clothing and fashion design, buttons are commonly made of plastic but also may be made of metal, wood, or ...
s,
zipper A zipper (N. America), zip, zip fastener (UK), formerly known as a clasp locker, is a commonly used device for binding together two edges of textile, fabric or other flexible material. Used in clothing (e.g. jackets and jeans), luggage and oth ...
s, hook-and-loop fasteners (AKA velcro), toggles, a belt, or a combination of some of these. Other possible features include
collar Collar may refer to: Human neckwear *Clerical collar (informally ''dog collar''), a distinctive collar used by the clergy of some Christian religious denominations *Collar (clothing), the part of a garment that fastens around or frames the neck ...
s,
shoulder strap A strap, sometimes also called strop, is an elongated flap or ribbon, usually of leather or other flexible materials. Thin straps are used as part of clothing or baggage, or bedding such as a sleeping bag. See for example spaghetti strap, shou ...
s, and
hood Hood may refer to: Covering Apparel * Hood (headgear), type of head covering ** Article of academic dress ** Bondage hood, sex toy * Hoodie, hooded sweatshirt Anatomy * Clitoral hood, a hood of skin surrounding the clitoris * Hood, a flap of ...
s.


Etymology

''Coat'' is one of the earliest clothing category words in English, attested as far back as the early
Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...
. (''See also'' Clothing terminology.) The
Oxford English Dictionary The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...
traces ''coat'' in its modern meaning to , when it was written ''cote'' or ''cotte''. The word coat stems from
Old French Old French (, , ; ) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th -4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ...
and then Latin ''cottus.'' It originates from the Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-Euro ...
word for woolen clothes. An early use of ''coat'' in English is Mail (armour), coat of mail (chainmail), a tunic-like garment of metal rings, usually knee- or mid-calf length.


History

The origins of the Western-style coat may be traced to the sleeved, close-fitted and front-fastened coats worn by the
Scythian The Scythians ( or ) or Scyths (, but note Scytho- () in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC fr ...
nomads of the eurasian steppes, though this style of coat may be much older, having been found with four-thousand-year-old
Tarim mummies The Tarim mummies are a series of Mummy, mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from Tarim Basin#Early periods, 1800 BCE to the first centuries BCE, with a new group of individuals recently dated to betw ...
and in five-thousand-year-old mummy of Otzi The medieval and renaissance coat (generally spelled ''cote'' or ''cotte'' by costume historians) is a mid-length,
sleeve A sleeve (, a word allied to '' slip'', cf. Dutch ) is the part of a garment that covers the arm, or through which the arm passes or slips. The sleeve is a characteristic of fashion seen in almost every country and time period, across a myri ...
d outer garment worn by both men and women, fitted to the waist and buttoned up the front, with a full skirt in its essentials, not unlike the modern coat. By the eighteenth century, overcoats had begun to supplant
cape A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment of any length that hangs loosely and connects either at the neck or shoulders. They usually cover the back, shoulders, and arms. They come in a variety of styles and have been used th ...
s and
cloak A cloak is a type of loose garment worn over clothing, mostly but not always as outerwear for outdoor wear, which serves the same purpose as an overcoat and protects the wearer from the weather. It may form part of a uniform. People in many d ...
s as outerwear in Western fashion. Before the
Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a transitional period of the global economy toward more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes, succee ...
, which began in the second half of the eighteenth century, the extremely high cost of cloth meant certain styles of clothing represented wealth and rank, but as cloth became more affordable post-industrialization, people within a lower social class could adopt the fashionable outdoor wear of the wealthy elite, which, notably, included a coat. In the nineteenth century, the invention of the sewing machine paired with existing textile machinery increased the affordability of mass-produced, ready-to-wear clothing and helped spur the popularity of wearing coats and jackets. By the mid-twentieth century the terms ''jacket'' and ''coat'' became confused for recent styles; the difference in use is still maintained for older garments.


Coats, jackets and overcoats

In the early nineteenth century, Western-style coats were divided into under-coats and overcoats. The term "under-coat" is now archaic but denoted the fact that the word ''coat'' could be both the outermost layer for outdoor wear (
overcoat An overcoat is a type of long coat intended to be worn as the outermost garment, which usually extends below the knee. Overcoats are most often used in winter when warmth is more important. They are sometimes confused with or referred to as #T ...
) or the coat is worn under that (under-coat). However, the term ''coat'' has begun to denote just the overcoat rather than the under-coat. The older usage of the word ''coat'' can still be found in the expression "to wear a coat and tie", which does not mean that wearer has on an overcoat. Nor do the terms ''
tailcoat A tailcoat is a knee-length coat (clothing), coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the ''tails''), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding ...
'', ''
morning coat A tailcoat is a knee-length coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the ''tails''), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding in the Early ...
'' or house coat denote types of
overcoat An overcoat is a type of long coat intended to be worn as the outermost garment, which usually extends below the knee. Overcoats are most often used in winter when warmth is more important. They are sometimes confused with or referred to as #T ...
. Indeed, an overcoat may be worn over the top of a
tailcoat A tailcoat is a knee-length coat (clothing), coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the ''tails''), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding ...
. In tailoring circles, the
tailor A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term to the thirteenth century. History Although clothing construction goes back to prehistory, there is evidence of ...
who makes all types of coats is called a ''coat maker''. Similarly, in American English, the term '' sports coat'' is used to denote a type of
jacket A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has sleeves and fastens in the front or slightly on the side. Jackets without sleeves are vests. A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and ...
not worn as outerwear (overcoat) (''sports jacket'' in British English). The term ''jacket'' is a traditional term usually used to refer to a specific type of short under-coat.
Oxford English Dictionary The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...
. (1989) 2nd ed. jacket, ''n.'' "...a short coat without tails..." Typical modern jackets extend only to the upper thigh in length, whereas older coats such as
tailcoat A tailcoat is a knee-length coat (clothing), coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the ''tails''), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding ...
s are usually of knee length. The modern jacket worn with a suit is traditionally called a '' lounge coat'' (or a ''lounge jacket'') in British English and a ''sack coat'' in American English. The American English term is rarely used. Traditionally, the majority of men dressed in a ''coat and tie'', although this has become gradually less widespread since the 1960s. Because the basic pattern for the
stroller Various methods of transporting children have been used in different cultures and times. These methods include baby carriages (prams in British English), infant car seats, portable bassinets (carrycots), strollers (pushchairs), slings, backpacks ...
(black jacket worn with striped trousers in
British English British English is the set of Variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom, especially Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to ...
) and
dinner jacket Black tie is a semi-formal wear, semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and North American conventions for clothing, attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdoc ...
(
tuxedo Black tie is a semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and North American conventions for attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically by its principal ...
in
American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken lang ...
) are the same as lounge coats, tailors traditionally call both of these special types of jackets a ''coat''. An overcoat is designed to be worn as the outermost garment worn as outdoor wear;
Oxford English Dictionary The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...
. (1989) 2nd ed. overcoat, ''n.'' "A large coat worn over the ordinary clothing..." while this use is still maintained in some places, particularly in Britain, elsewhere the term ''coat'' is commonly used mainly to denote only the overcoat, and not the under-coat. A ''topcoat'' is a slightly shorter overcoat, if any distinction is to be made. Overcoats worn over the top of knee length coats (under-coats) such as
frock coat A frock coat is a formal wear, formal men's coat (clothing), coat characterised by a knee-length skirt cut all around the base just above the knee, popular during the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian era, Edwardian periods (1830s–1910s). ...
s, dress coats, and
morning coats A tailcoat is a knee-length coat (clothing), coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the ''tails''), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding ...
are cut to be a little longer than the under-coat so as to completely cover it, as well as being large enough to accommodate the coat underneath. The length of an overcoat varies: mid-calf being the most frequently found and the default when current fashion is not concerned with hemlines. Designs vary from knee-length to ankle-length, briefly fashionable in the early 1970s and known (to contrast with the usurped
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) as the "maxi".Christopher Booker (1980) The Seventies Speakers of
American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken lang ...
sometimes informally use the words ''jacket'' and ''coat'' interchangeably.''
Oxford English Dictionary The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...
'',
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, 1971


Types


Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries


Men's

Some of these styles are still worn. Note that for this period, only coats of the under-coat variety are listed, and
overcoat An overcoat is a type of long coat intended to be worn as the outermost garment, which usually extends below the knee. Overcoats are most often used in winter when warmth is more important. They are sometimes confused with or referred to as #T ...
s are excluded. File:Voet-duque de medinacelli-prado.jpg, alt=Oil painting of a white man with a large, curled wig of a medium brown. He is wearing a red coat ostentatiously decorated with cording of horizontal, diamond-shaped designs. The coat is fitted to the hips where it flares out and stops at the knees. The sleeves are long and fitted with lace around the cuffs. Lace also falls over the neck of the coat. Underneath the coat, the man is wearing black stockings and black shoes. He is holding a walking stick and standing next to a table covered in red and gold cloth., Justacorps, a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century knee-length coat, fitted to the waist with flared skirts File:Frock Coat April 1904.jpg, alt=A black-and-white drawing of a white woman and white man getting married. The woman is wearing a white gown that is loose at the top, fitted at the waist, and loose to the ground with a small bustle at the rear. The man is wearing a long, black coat that fastens off-center and reaches just past his knees with slight waist definition. The sleeves of his jacket are slender but not tight and reach his wrists. Beneath this he has on a white shirt with a high collar, just visible beneath the coat's V-neck, and slim dark trousers over black shoes. The woman is wearing a veil over her hair but the man is not wearing a hat. There is a flower on his lapel, and the woman is holding a bouquet.,
Frock coat A frock coat is a formal wear, formal men's coat (clothing), coat characterised by a knee-length skirt cut all around the base just above the knee, popular during the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian era, Edwardian periods (1830s–1910s). ...
, a kneelength men's coat of the nineteenth century File:Morning dress 1901.jpg, alt=A black-and-white drawing of a white man in a top hat and an open coat that is cut so that it reaches to his knees in the back but it open in the front, curving in toward the waist. The sleeves are long and fitted but not tight. Beneath the coat, he is wearing striped, fitted trousers, a vest, and a white shirt with a high collar. He is holding a walking stick.,
Morning coat A tailcoat is a knee-length coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the ''tails''), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding in the Early ...
or cutaway, a dress coat still worn as
formal wear Formal wear or full dress is the Western dress code category applicable for the most formal occasions, such as weddings, Baptism, christenings, confirmations, funerals, Easter traditions, Easter and Christmas traditions, in addition to certain ...
File:Mens evening wear costumes parisiens 1912.jpg, alt=A cartoon of a white man with hands in his trouser pockets. He is wearing a black coat with long tails down the back but cut in a way that it stops at the waist in the front. Beneath the coat he is wearing a white shirt, low-cut white vest, and black trousers.,
Tailcoat A tailcoat is a knee-length coat (clothing), coat characterised by a rear section of the skirt (known as the ''tails''), with the front of the skirt cut away. The tailcoat shares its historical origins in clothes cut for convenient horse-riding ...
(dress coat in tailor's parlance), a late-eighteenth-century men's coat preserved in today's
white tie and tails ''White Tie and Tails'' is a 1946 American comedy drama film directed by Charles Barton (director), Charles Barton and starring Dan Duryea, Ella Raines, William Bendix, and Frank Jenks. The film tagline is "Clothes Don't Make the Man ... a Gentl ...
File:BlackWatch Jacket (Borodino Battlefield Museum).jpg, alt=A color photograph of a red coat cut high-waisted in the front and slightly longer in the back so that it reaches the hips. There is white cording in a spade-like design along the fasteners and wool puffs along the shoulders. The collar is high and black but opens at in a V-shape along the neck. The cuffs are also black with white cording in the same spade-like design like that along the front fasteners.,
Coatee A coatee was a type of tight fitting uniform coat or jacket, which was waist length at the front and had short tails behind. The coatee began to replace the long tail coat in western armies at the end of the eighteenth century, but was itself sup ...
, an early nineteenth-century military coat, still worn with
Highland dress Highland dress is the traditional, regional dress of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. It is often characterised by tartan (''plaid'' in North America). Specific designs of shirt, jacket, bodice and headwear may also be worn. On rare occas ...
. File:Duke and Hitoshi Narita 2002.jpg, alt=A color photograph of three men standing together, each wearing black jackets and black trousers. The jacket is open in a deep V-shape toward the waist where it buttons. Each man is wearing a bow tie over the collar of their white shirts and each has a pocket handkerchief sticking out of their breast pocket. Their shoes are black.,
Dinner jacket Black tie is a semi-formal wear, semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and North American conventions for clothing, attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdoc ...
, a men's semi-formal evening lounge coat. File:NewYearsEve01.jpg, alt=A white man with a goatee is wearing a maroon-colored jacket that ties around the middle with black ribbon. The lapels are wide and black. The jacket is open to the waist, showing a white, high collared shirt beneath with a black bowtie. The man is holding two champagne glasses.,
Smoking jacket A smoking jacket is an informal men's style of lounge jacket originally intended for tobacco smoking. Designed in the 1850s, a traditional smoking jacket has a shawl collar, turn-up cuffs, and is closed with either toggle or button fastenings, ...
, a men's jacket worn informally with
black tie Black tie is a semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and North American conventions for attire in the 19th century. In British English, the dress code is often referred to synecdochically by its principal ...
File:John F Kennedy Official Portrait.jpg, alt=A painting of a white man, former American president John F. Kennedy, wearing a gray-colored coat that reaches past his hips and is cut in a rounded shape around the front hem. It fastens at the waist. The sleeves are long and fitted to his wrists with the cuffs of the white shirt beneath barely visible. Visible at the V-neck of the jacket is the white shirt with a dark-colored tie. He is looking down and has his arms crossed over his chest., Lounge coat or sack coat, a coat which is also a
jacket A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has sleeves and fastens in the front or slightly on the side. Jackets without sleeves are vests. A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and ...
File:Duster coat used by one of the Younger Brothers.jpg, alt=Photograph of a buff-colored duster, a front-fastened coat with a mantel over the shoulders that covers most of the arms.,
Duster coat A duster is a light, loose-fitting, long coat. History The original dusters were full-length, light-colored canvas or linen coats worn by horsemen in the United States to protect their clothing from trail dust. These dusters were typically sli ...
or simply "duster" worn when riding horseback


Women's

File:Caraco jacket in printed cotton, 1770-1790, skirt in quilted silk satin, 1750-1790.jpg, alt=A headless mannequin is wearing a green quilted skirt and over it wearing a pink caraco with a purple fern motif. The caraco is a fitted coat that passes the hip of the wearer and buttons up the front; this version has full, fitted sleeves, a square neckline, and there is a large gap at the front skirt of the caraco., Caraco, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century fitted coat initially associated with the working class; it is similar to a
Bedgown A bedgown (sometimes bed gown, bedjacket or shortgown) is an article of women's clothing for the upper body, usually thigh-length and wrapping or tying in front. Bedgowns of lightweight printed cotton fabric were fashionable at-home morning wear i ...
File:Antoine Hérisset-Les Palatines. Habit ordinaire. Les Casaquins -Rijksmuseum.jpg, alt=A fashion plate of three individuals, two white women modeling the casaquin: one green casaquin over a maroon dress with a wide crinoline and the second a maroon and green striped one over a matching dress. The casaquin is a coat that falls somewhere between the hips and knees and is wide enough around the skirt of the coat to lay over a wide-hooped skirt. The sleeves of these particular examples are wide and three-fourths length. It's fitted around the bodice. There is a white man in the middle with a tricorn hat, an ivory jacket that reaches his knees with a flared skirt. It has loose sleeves with wide cuffs, and the coat is worn over white stockings and black boots. He has a walking stick in his hand.,
Casaquin A casaquin is a short-length closely fitted coat worn by middle- and upper-class women during the 18th century. The garment was popular in both France and Italy. A casaquin was made from linen which was then covered by embroidery, silk and lace to ...
, an eighteenth-century coat that fastened down the middle and reached the hip File:Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français 1787, No. lll, Pl. 338 Rodingotte de taffetas violet, RP-P-2009-1900.jpg, alt=A drawing of a veiled woman in a big purple hat and a purple, long-sleeved redingote: a coat that is fitted at the bodice and hits above the hips at the front but cut so that it is left long in the back so that it reaches the floor. Under the coat is a white, floor-length gown. She is carrying a riding crop.,
Redingote A frock coat is a formal men's coat characterised by a knee-length skirt cut all around the base just above the knee, popular during the Victorian and Edwardian periods (1830s–1910s). It is a fitted, long-sleeved coat with a centre vent at th ...
, an eighteenth-century fitted riding coat with a long skirt down the back worn as a part of a riding habit File:Woman's Spencer Jacket and Petticoat LACMA M.2007.211.15a-b (1 of 9).jpg, alt=Full-body mannequin wearing a white, floor-length empire waist dress with three rows of ruffles around the bottom and a copper-colored spencer jacket: a long-sleeved, form fitted jacket that reaches the waist and has puffs at the shoulders., Spencer, a waist-length, frequently double-breasted, coat from the early nineteenth century sometimes made of the same cloth as the gown beneath it File:Pelisse MET 29.1158 front CP4.jpg, alt=A headless mannequin wearing a light beige floor-length coat that buttons up the middle with three lines of decorative, zigzagging cording along the fitted bodice, long sleeves, and scalloped collar,
Pelisse A pelisse was originally a short fur-trimmed jacket which hussar light-cavalry soldiers from the 17th century onwards usually wore hanging loose over the left shoulder, ostensibly to prevent sword cuts. The name also came to refer to a fashiona ...
, an early-nineteenth-century high-waisted and fitted long coat File:Douglas Campbell, Gown, c. 1940, NGA 14895.jpg, alt=A color fashion plate of a green gown with a train and lace around the sleeve hems and a basque bodice. The bodice is made from a matching cloth and buttons up the front. It has short, square tails in the back.,
Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ...
bodice, a Victorian-era coat that was sometimes made with tails File:Six Women Outdoors, No. 676, from La Elegancia MET DP819134.jpg, alt=A black-and-white fashion plate of six women each wearing long gowns (three white, one dark, two hidden behind other women) and paletots: coats that are fitted to the arms and bodice but flair out to lay over the gowns rounded by crinolines, each coat is shown at a different length and with different shapes around the hem, such as one whose hem is large zigzags, another comes to a point, another is asymmetrical so that it comes longer in the back, and another is the same length all the way around.,
Paletot A paletot is a type of topcoat. The name is French, but etymologically derived from the Middle English word ''paltok'', meaning a kind of jacket. Historically, it was a semi-fitted to fitted coat, double-breasted or single-breasted, the f ...
, a nineteenth-century mid- to full-length coat similar in design to the casaquin in which it is fastens in the front and is fitted to the waist before widening to drape over the skirt File:African American Woman (MSA) (5788378587).jpg, alt=Black-and-white photograph of a young black woman wearing a hat with feathers and a suit: a coat with long, leg-of-mutton sleeves and wide-black lapels with a skirt the same cloth as the coat. The coat's skirt passes just over her hips. The coat is open to show a white blouse beneath. The woman is holding a cane behind her back., Suit coats, a development in the late nineteenth century in which coats or jackets paired with a skirt of the same cloth were worn for purposes other than as riding habits; developed into women's modern suit sets


Modern

The terms ''coat'' and ''jacket'' are both used around the world. The modern terms "
jacket A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has sleeves and fastens in the front or slightly on the side. Jackets without sleeves are vests. A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and ...
" and "coat" are often used interchangeably as terms, although the term "coat" tends to be used to refer to longer garments. Modern coats include the: *
British Warm A British Warm, British warm or British Warm overcoat is a type of woollen overcoat based on the greatcoats worn by British Army officers in the First World War. at www.h-huntsman.com. Retrieved 10 Feb 2015 History The British Warm first appea ...
* Car coat *
Chesterfield coat The Chesterfield is a formal, dark, knee-length overcoat with a velvet collar introduced around the 1840s in the United Kingdom. A less formal derivation is the similar, but with a lighter fabric, slightly shorter, top coat called a covert coa ...
*
Covert coat A covert coat is a gentleman's overcoat typically with notched lapels which originated in the late 19th century as a "short topcoat" to be worn for hunting and horse riding. A popular form of covert coat is the Crombie. Since the 20th centur ...
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Duffel coat A duffel coat (also duffle coat) is a coat made from duffel cloth, designed with toggle-and-rope fastenings, patched pockets and a large hood. The name derives from Duffel, a town in the province of Antwerp in Belgium where the manufacturing pr ...
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Parka A parka, like the related anorak, is a type of coat (clothing), coat with a hood (headgear), hood, that may be lining (sewing), lined with fur or fake fur. Parkas and anoraks are staples of Inuit clothing, traditionally made from Reindeer, cari ...
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Pea coat A pea coat is an outer coat, generally of a navy-coloured heavy wool, originally worn by sailors of European and later American navies. Pea coats are characterized by short length, broad lapels, double-breasted fronts, often large wooden, met ...
*
Raincoat A raincoat is a waterproof or water-resistant garment worn on the upper body to shield the wearer from rain. The term rain jacket is sometimes used to refer to raincoats with long sleeves that are waist-length. A rain jacket may be combined wit ...
or
Mackintosh The Mackintosh raincoat (abbreviated as mac) is a form of waterproof raincoat, first sold in 1824, made of rubberised textile, fabric. The Mackintosh is named after its Scotland, Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh, although many writers adde ...
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Trench coat A trench coat is a variety of coat made of Waterproof fabric, waterproof heavy-duty fabric, originally developed for British Army officers before the First World War, and becoming popular while used in the Trench warfare, trenches, hence the nam ...


See also

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Jacket A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has sleeves and fastens in the front or slightly on the side. Jackets without sleeves are vests. A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and ...
*
Overcoat An overcoat is a type of long coat intended to be worn as the outermost garment, which usually extends below the knee. Overcoats are most often used in winter when warmth is more important. They are sometimes confused with or referred to as #T ...
*
Robe A robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. Unlike garments described as capes or cloaks, robes usually have sleeves. The English word ''robe'' derives from Middle English ''robe'' ("garment"), borrowed from Old French ''robe'' ("booty, spoil ...
* Tubada *
White coat A white coat, also known as a laboratory coat or lab coat, is a knee-length overcoat or smock worn by professionals in the medical field or by those involved in laboratory work. The coat protects their street clothes and also serves as a simpl ...
*
Winter clothing Winter clothing are clothes used for protection against the particularly cold weather of winter. Often they have a good water resistance, consist of multiple layers to protect and insulate against low temperatures. Winter clothes are especially o ...


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