8 MORE CLASSIC COATS! Burberry Tweed, Brooks Bros. Chesterfield, Polo coats, Paul Stuart tweed, ++

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THIS S MY SECOND THREAD; I have another with 10 more Classic Coats on offer!

I have a slew of wonderful topcoats and overcoats to pass on today--including two beautiful Chesterfields from Brooks Brothers and Tripler, cashmere overcoats, a Langrock Polo coat, a GORGEOUS overcoat cut from cloth that's a blend of cashmere and mink, Harris Tweed, West of England tweed, and more!

As always, I offer FREE SHIPPING ANYWHERE IN THE USA; International inquiries are welcome, with shipping at cost!

Also as always, ALL OFFERS ARE VERY WELCOME!

Please PM with interest and offers!

11) MADE IN ITALY Waxed Cotton Jacket

Just to break up the parade of topcoats and overcoats, here's something completely different--a Made in Italy waxed cotton coat! Made by "Island Jackets" and billed as being for extreme cold weather protection (something that I am doubtful is true), this is a lovely jacket that's rather a cross between a Barbour and a LL bean Field Jacket. The waxed cotton outer shell is 94% cotton and 5% resin, which no doubt makes for a shell that is more water resistant than those of Barbour--although this is rather "crinkly" as a result.

The jacket features deep lamb chop pockets, like a Bean Field jacket, which are located just above the deep expandable flapped pockets on the front. This jacket features a right-hand shooting patch on the shoulder, a corduroy collar, and a twin vent; this can be fastened shut with snaps. The cuffs can be buttoned shut. The interior is quilted, and features a deep zippered security pocket. The throat features a fully functional throat latch.

This jacket does have a few minor flaws, which add to its character. It has some minor scuffs and staining, especially around the bellows pockets and near the cuffs, and it has a small snag hole near the right hand cuff. At first I also thought that it was missing a button from each of the bellows pockets flaps, but close inspection reveals that it only came with one button each side, despite having two buttonholes! As such, this jacket is in Very Good condition, and so it priced very reasonably at just $39, or offer.

Tagged 56 (US 46), this measures:

Chest: 26 1/4
Sleeve: 25 1/8
Shoulder: 22
Length: 32 1/2

 

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12) Brooks Brothers Formal Chesterfield Topcoat. (ALMOST NWT!)

The Chesterfield is an iconic topcoat. A classic wardrobe staple from the 1920s to today, the Chesterfield is characterised by its lack of darting; a characteristic that it now shares with many other types of topcoats, but which was highly innovative when it was first designed in the mid C19th as a reaction to the highly shaped coats that were then in vogue.

This example is an absolute beauty! Made by Brooks Brothers, this is cut from solid dark charcoal woolen cloth--the most formal of cloths for a Chesterfield. The wool is extremely soft and luxurious, giving this coat a beautiful hand and drape--indeed, so soft is this that it could pass as cashmere. The cloth is perfectly complemented by the beautiful velvet collar, which together with the classic peak lapels provides an air of aristocratic elegance to the wearer, even if this is casually slung over an Aran sweater and a pair of jeans.

The coat is fully lined and fully canvassed, and has a single center vent. The two front pockets are both deep and secure, and the right-hand one features an interior change pocket.

With the exception of a tiny rub on the velvet collar on the left-hand side--something you'd likely not notice unless it was pointed out--this coat is in absolutely excellent condition. Indeed, it comes complete with its original cardboard sleeve tag, included in the interior pocket--which indicates that this coat was worn very sparingly, if at all.

Union Made in the USA, and likely dating from the late 1980s to early 1990s, judging by the script on the sleeve tag, this is a wonderful, classic piece of clothing, at a steal at just $125, or offer.

Tagged 42R, this measures:

Chest: 21 1/2
Sleeve: 26 1/2
Shoulder: 19
Length: 43 1/2

 

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13) GORGEOUS Vintage BURBERRY Tweed Overcoat!

This is absolutely wonderful--although I must confess that I have a serious weakness for these vintage Burberry tweed overcoats, as every single one that I've seen has been incredibly sturdy and beautifully tailored from very, very serious tweed.... The Platonic Form of the tweed overcoat!

This is no exception. Cut from a wonderfully thick, heavy, and warm heavyweight tweed in a classic vintage colourway of black and brown herringbone this coat is cut with raglan sleeves for ease of movement. This has a four button fastening in the front, and demi-peak lapels, as is appropriate for a heavy tweed overcoat. This is half-lined--showing off the superb construction that would otherwise be hidden by the lining--and features a single center vent. The seams along the arms and down the center of the back are thickly lapped. The cuffs feature adjustable straps to secure your wrists against the wind; all of the original buttons on the cuffs and the straps are intact. The coat features two very well designed slash pockets on the front; these are designed so that you can either use them as deep handwarmer pockets, or else reach through them to access the pockets of any jacket that you might be wearing underneath. Both of the original buttons to fasten these pockets closed are intact.

This coat also features a lovely vintage Burberry label, with the order handwritten on it!

It does have a couple of minor issues. First, there is some minor fraying to the interior leading edge of the left-hand pocket; this does not affect wear and cannot be seen when worn. The lining has been repaired professionally in the shoulder, and there is a small weave fault on the collar--likely there from new--and a tiny snag by the hem, as shown. There is also some wear to the leading edges of the cuffs, as shown. Given these issues this glorious coat is in Very Good condition, and so is an absolute BARGAIN at just $75, or offer... This really is a steal for a coat of this quality!

Hand tagged 38R, this measures:

Chest: 22 1/2
Sleeve: 36 (+3) (Measured like a shirt)
Shoulder: NA--raglan sleeves.
Length: 46

 

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14) CLASSIC POLO COAT!

Not surprisingly, the Polo coat owes its name to the camelhair coats worn by Polo players between chukkas.... and as such it was originally an English, rather than an American, garment. But the English Polo had only a distant resemblance to what would quickly become an American style icon. They often lacked any form of buttoning, closing only with a belt, and were essentially glorified bathrobes..... which was fine for their original purpose of being casually tossed over the shoulders of unmounted players.

(Polos were also originally called "Wait Coats", as they were worn only while waiting.)

During the Edwardian era polo became popular with the East Coast establishment, and the polo coat quickly became popular with spectators and players alike. Guided by WASP frugality the original wrap coat was quickly improved to be a more useful garment, acquiring buttons, deep patch pockets, and the oversized Ulster collar, while retaining the functional half-belt at the back, and often shedding the original belt.

The American Polo Coat was born.

But being produced is one thing; becoming a style icon is quite another. The Polo was not long in securing this status. Its practicality and swagger was quickly noticed by the young men at Ivy colleges whose friends and cousins were associated with the polo set, and within a few years it became the coat of choice for the stylish Roaring Twenties, along with Stutz Bearcats, bootleg liquor, and--for the truly wealthy and adventurous--barnstormer biplanes sold off cheaply after the Great War. Indeed, at the 1929 Yale-Princeton game many noted that the Polo had supplanted the Raccoon coat among the Ivy set... and raccoons everywhere rejoiced.*

By the 1950s, alas, the Polo was in decline, supplanted by the double-breasted trenchcoat made popular by its Second War utility and style. It enjoyed a brief popular resurgence in the 1980s with its fascination with the romance and style of the 1920s and 1930s. Yet that it has declined in general popularity by no means detracts from its iconic status, and the Polo has since its inception always warranted a place in every well-dressed man's wardrobe.

Indeed, so classic is the Polo that a lovely example from 1915 (by Brooks Brothers) is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

And if you want one, they're available.... Brooks still stocks them, so does J. Press, Ben Silver, and O'Connell's, who'll be happy to sell you one for $1,400.

Or you could buy this!

Made by Taglianetti, this is a classic double-breasted Polo coat in the classic camelhair colour--please note, though, that I believe that this is a wool coat, although the fabric is not listed. It has a classic six button front, oversize collar, and two flapped patch pockets. It has the classic half-belt, and a horizontal lapped seam across the back providing a cape effect. The back also features a box pleat for ease of movement, and a deep single vent. The coat is fully lined, and appears to be half-canvassed.

It does have a couple of minor issues; there are two tiny moth nibbles, as shown, but these are hard to spot and could be ignored. There is a tiny amount of loose stitching at the top of the vent in the lining; this is an easy fix, or else could be ignored. And there is wear to one of the buttonholes.

Overall, then, this is in Very Good/Excellent condition. Asking just $75, or offer.

Tagged 40--and this is repeated on the original paper tag affixed to the interior of the half-belt--this measures:

Chest: 20 1/2
Sleeve: 27 (+2)
Shoulder: 18 1/2
Length: 42 1/2

 

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15) LANGROCK OF PRINCETON POLO-INSPIRED TOPCOAT

Langrock was THE purveyor of Ivy Style during the Golden Age, and was THE premier menswear shop of Princeton. Alas, Langrock's strict and dogmatic adherence to "The Rules" of Ivy Style led to its downfall; in the late 1980s and early 1990s it ran defiant full-page ads stating that it was the ONLY store in America that adhered to the "American Look" of 3/2 sack jackets, Harris tweeds, and Scottish cashmere. But, the dogmatic refusal to allow ANYTHING with darts into the store led to its closure, as tastes shifted away from the Golden Age look, and Langrock was forced to fold.

So iconic is Langrock--in part for the stubborn refusal to alter anything Ivy--that its products are now highly collectible--indeed, I've supplied LABELS from Langrock clothing that was too far gone to be rescued to a prominent Ivy Style blogger, as even these are now becoming collectible.

Given this, this wonderful Polo-inspired topcoat (i.e., Polo coat inspired, not RL inspired!) is a real find. Cut from lovely soft wool with a wonderful hand and drape, this has a three button closure, although as you'd expect from Langrock the top button would typically be undone. This features two deep flapped patch pockets on the front, with lapped seams surrounding each of them, as well as pick stitching. The sleeves, center seam, and even the shoulders all feature heavy lapped seams; the single center vent is, of course, hooked, and features a retaining button to keep it closed if so desired. The cuffs have ornamental turn-backs. This coat is half-lined, which allows you to see the carefully-done vertical reinforcing stitching throughout, making sure that the garment holds its shape through the years. The lapels are peak, and you'd expect, and feature pick stitching--again, as you'd expect! This coat features a side-entry wallet pocket on the interior, and a deep interior security pocket.

This coat carries the classic black Langrock label, as well as the classic interior Langrock label.

This does have a couple of minor flaws; there is a moth nibble on the back, as shown, and at the shoulder, as shown. The lining is slightly fraying in the shoulder, as shown. There is some fraying to the interior change pocket, and a very small stain near the hem. As such, this coat is in Very Good condition, and, given that it's a Langrock, is a steal at just $75, or offer.

Measurements:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 24 (+1)
Shoulder: 19
Length: 39 1/2

 

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16) MADE IN ENGLAND Double Breasted "British Warm" Overcoat

This is absolutely wonderful--and in absolutely beautiful condition! Made in England, this is cut from cloth that is a blend of Cashmere, Wool, and "Other Fibres"--judging by the softness of the fabric this is likely to be a very small percentage of other fibres, likely added to provide strength and to guard against pilling, which even cashmere blends can be prone to.

Cut as a classic "British Warm" overcoat this is double-breasted, and has peak lapels--as you'd expect. It features three button finished cuffs, and a single centre vent. It has two deep front pockets, and is fully lined in satin. It appears to be half-canvassed. The heft of this coat is lovely--this is a seriously warm, and seriously elegant, overcoat! It is in absolutely beautiful condition.

Asking just $85, or offer.

Tagged 44R, this measures:

Chest: 23
Sleeve: 26 1/2 (+1 1/2)
Shoulder: 20
Length: 45 1/2








17) Paul Stuart Tweed Double Breasted Overcoat

This is wonderful! Cut from classic grey herringbone tweed, this beautiful coat by Paul Stuart is double breasted with peak lapels. It has four button cuffs, is fully canvassed, and fully lined. It has a chain handtag, that is intact, and a single centre vent. It also features a very deep interior game pocket--oddly, for a coat of this degree of formality--as well as the more usual interior pockets for your wallet. This coat was Made in Canada.

It does have some fraying at the bottom of the lining, as shown; it has also had a small repair done to the lining to reinforce the area where the interior button is located. Given these minor flaws, this is in Very Good condition, and so it is a bargain at just $69, or offer.

Tagged a 40L, this measures:

Chest: 20 3/4
Sleeve: 26 1/4 (+1 1/)
Shoulder: 18
Length; 45 1/2

 

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18) WONDERFUL MADE IN ENGLAND Classic Grey Herringbone Topcoat in West of England Cloth!

This is lovely! A classic single-breasted topcoat cut from classic grey herringbone West of England cloth, loomed in Oxfordshire (which is in the east of England...), this was Made in England for Saks of Fifth Avenue. It has a three button closure and standard notch lapels, three button cuffs, and a single center vent. It is half-canvassed, and fully lined. This is a lovely, classic coat!

It has a couple of minor mars, however. There is some minor sag to the top of the interior breast pocket; this doesn't affect function, and can't be seen when worn. There are also three very small snag holes by the left hem at the bottom; these could either be rewoven, or else simply darned--or ignored!

Given these issues, this is in Good/Very Good condtion, and so it a bargain at just $50, or offer!

Measurements:

Chest: 22
Sleeve: 27 (+2)
Shoulder: 19 1/2
Length: 46