Questions About the United States Navy Peacoat

[JAGG]

I have made mistakes a few times, but I have never been wrong. My mistake in this case was in not asking you for better pictures of your coat.

Now that you have provided better pictures, and that I have reevaluated the improved quality pictures and the tag in conjunction with the pictures, I can state with a fair degree of peacoat certainty that this is a mid to late 30s peacoat.

So, as you can see, I wasn't wrong; I just made a mistake. And I attribute that mistake to you as I seldom make mistakes.

If your coat has no throat latch, nor buttons for them, we can assume it was made without the throat latch,. I mean that was well over 80 years ago. No telling what features were included back then.

Hey, you wrote the book, of course you are infallible. After all, this is the Peacoat religion, isn’t it?

So that was a surprise, I assumed this would be a ww2 issue coat and not earlier. When I looked at the collar again, I do see that it is quite a bit narrower than ww2 collars. Is this part of why you concluded it is pre ww2 issue? Anyway, the narrowness may explain why no throat latch needed, so this might be a part of pre war ID. Anyway, glad I don’t need to search for a latch I would never use anyway. Included is pic of collar up close showing size difference.

 

[JAGG]

And one more question for now. This old coat is in excellent condition, except all the button holes on one side are blown out. No fabric tears, but stitching around holes gone. The unused sides button holes are all perfect (no surprise). Is this a repair that a seamstress/tailor can make, if so is it done by machine (cheap and quick) or done by hand (time consuming to do all five holes)?