DB Overcoat internal strap.

[Mr.Bond]

Hello, I've been a reader of this forum quite a long time by now and finally made my registration here.
Yesterday I got a double breasted overcoat from a thrift charity place nearby. It cost me almost nothing, it has some moth holes and the lining is torned at some places but as a collector I got it anyway to have a closer look to it at home.
One thing brought my attention, the coat has a internal strap instead of the regular inner button found in all db jackets and coats. That button is placed outside the coat instead. Anyone has seen this stuff? Also it has a blue velvet lining at the front hand pockets
I don't know if I'll keep the coat yet since it is not fitting the way I like. At first I tought that this coat could be from the 50s since to me it isn't a 60s or 70s design but now I'm starting to think that it might be even a 80s coat (I really despise 80s and 90s designs). Altough the coat feels older than that. It measures 54cm pit to pit and I'm a 36-38 chest so it is too roomy for my taste. Any guess about the age of this coat?
Best regards.

 

[Doctor Damage]

I think it's great to see that strap, which is obviously an alternative to the keeper button on a double breasted coat. I'm not sure why you'd buy something that doesn't fit, even as a "collector", since this is an interesting coat but nothing that shakes the world, and I think your bias against 80s and 90s coats shows poor judgement. I guess if you discover this coat dates from the 1980s you will get rid of it for that reason alone? I know my post is going to come across as a bit sharp to some readers, but I think it needs to be said. Look at clothing objectively: does it fit? does it look good? does it have quality? Don't discount or reject clothing simply because it comes from a decade or period which you don't like for some reason. Plenty of great clothing was produced in the 1980s and it's not all floppy shouldered, low buttoned Armani stuff, or pinned leg parachute pants, or... etc.

 

[Mr.Bond]

I think it's great to see that strap, which is obviously an alternative to the keeper button on a double breasted coat. I'm not sure why you'd buy something that doesn't fit, even as a "collector", since this is an interesting coat but nothing that shakes the world, and I think your bias against 80s and 90s coats shows poor judgement. I guess if you discover this coat dates from the 1980s you will get rid of it for that reason alone? I know my post is going to come across as a bit sharp to some readers, but I think it needs to be said. Look at clothing objectively: does it fit? does it look good? does it have quality? Don't discount or reject clothing simply because it comes from a decade or period which you don't like for some reason. Plenty of great clothing was produced in the 1980s and it's not all floppy shouldered, low buttoned Armani stuff, or pinned leg parachute pants, or... etc.

I agree with you that you can't reject clothes based on this, since I have clothes that were even made nowadays. I've bought this from a charity shop, it cost me 1 buck and I've had to be fast because other people wanted the coat. Since I have a very huge fall for Db jackets and coats I got it. Buit in this charity place you can't fit the clothes since they don't have mirrors and no space at all....Since I didn't have any db great coat here this one has 114cm while the longest I have here has 100cm for 1 buck I got it anyway.
I was curious to proper date this coat, even though I did not like its fit. The waist could be more supressed and the hips could be more roomy, he is very slim above the hips in the back down though the legs for my taste while the shoulders are a bit wide. My favourite db jackets and coats are the neo edwardian ones made in the late 60s and early 70s as well as the true edwardians of course.
And I really don't like the 80s and 90s floppy stuff.

 

[Dinerman]

That's a very European design feature, you see it mainly on German made coats. It's a bit hard to tell from the pictures, but I'd tentatively put a '30s'40s date on that. Impossible to be sure without seeing it in person, though.

 

[Mr.Bond]

Hello there, thanks for your comment, Yes it really feels like a very old coat in person, when I got it I really thought that it could be that old, in other hand that square pattern lining is something that screams a "younger coat" at least to me.
It surely does not look like a late 60s and 70s coat since I have seen and have here a some of them. But everything is possible, it seems.