Edward
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Sin Khan said:You make a good point, Edward, I didn’t like the color of this coat at first and I didn’t appreciate that it offered a different style than a traditional tan trench coat until after your comments and I had a good look at it with other outfits. I also thought about the black one, yet, I try to live simply and I only need one coat, so, this one is going to have to be it for a while, perhaps a long while.
It's interesting to see somewhere like Marks & Sparks offering a one-colour-only option, and that being tan - I wonder is that due to the fashionability of Burberry in recent seasons - and Burberry's traditional colour being a khaki / tan? It does seem to me that if you were going to go for a one-only trench, a mid-dark grey would be the most flexible option. Some of us today (myself included, probably) have way more overcoats than necessary, but I imagine that was a rare thing back in the 30s, so most men would have been buying one coat to go with everything. Maybe it was simply the influence of its military origins that made khaki/tan the standard rather than something more flexible like grey (IMO, a grey would go better with a black suit, or some blues), but then it also seems to me that men's clothing back in the Golden Age featured considerably more browns than would be the norm nowadays when blacks would be more usual than brown. Tans would match in really well over a brown suit.