Favorite Coat or Jacket?

[SeaCat]

Okay so what's your favorite coat or jacket?

I have a couple.

My absolute favorite is my old and beaten Field Jacket. The Military got it right when they made these. They may be ugly but they are cut right for movement. They have largish pockets and you can put in a liner for when it gets cooler. (Mine was issued to me in the early eighties when I worked for Uncle Sam. I got it honest.)

Second is a well worn leather Bomber Jacket. It's old and well worn but it's warm and comfortable.

Third is a Poly-Pro lined leather Trench Coat. It's warm and fairly comfortable but it isn't cut right in the back so you don't have a full range of motion while wearing it.

My riding leathers don't count. They are there for a reason and while warm and comfortable are too heavy for daily use.

Cat

 

[DesertPirate]

A Navy green foul weather jacket. It is now almost worn out but it was issued to me new in 78
Still has faded name and boat number on the back.

 

[_Lynn_]

My Army green London Fog trench coat.

 

[JackLuis]

My Eddy Bauer Gore-tex parka. Light warm and dry!

 

[BlackShanglan]

Au naturale. I'm told the color suits me.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I still have my field jacket, too. Actually, I have two. My original Vietnam era OD green and the camo one with my First Sergeant pins on the collar. The one I wear is the old one.

 

[Handley_Page]

My old Airfield cold-weather jacket. It's like an Army thing, but better lined.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Orphan?

I really don't have a decent coat this year. My favorites all have buttons missing and I haven't taken the time to drop them off at the cleaners.

My favorite (once it has its buttons back), is a black, fake me out leather coat that was given to me by the woman I'm somewhat seeing. It's worn in, very soft, and cut so that while making me look badass, I'm also warm and slimmed by the length and color.

 

[oggbashan]

My fawn duffle coat bought in the Winter of 1962/3 when Southern UK shivered to a standstill. It is based on a wartime Navy issue but made of better materials.

After 45 years the pockets need reinforcing but otherwise it is as good now as it was then.

In the late 1960s one of my fiancée's coveted it. I told her she could have it when I'd finished with it. She didn't last. The coat has.

Og

 

[R. Richard]

Back in the 18th century the pilot of a sailing ship had to stand on deck, in all kinds of weather and steer the ship. During that time the 'pilot coat' was developed for the pilot. The pilot coat was typically a double breasted coat made of 30 oz virgin wool. (I don't care what the sheep did before they cut the wool off of it either, but that's NOT what virgin wool means.) The pilot coat was warm, durable, rain repellant and long lasting. Later the pilot coat came to be referred to as a p-coat. At least in the USA Navy, the coat later came to be called a pea coat. The official Navy coats were/are good. Some manufacturers make 'premium' versions with things like 32 oz wool and better lining and pocket material. You won't find a warmer winter coat than a pea coat, unless you get something from, say, Patagonia at several times the cost of a pea coat.

 

[TE999]

I have a London Fog windbreaker in Navy that I bought in 1964. It's travels with me most everywhere and has yet to show any wear.

 

[YoursSINSerely]

I have a Dana Buchman, eggplant colored, silk, quilted, car coat that I'm very fond of. When it was given to me, it was too large for me, but unfortunately, I fit into just fine these days. Last year I happened upon a pair of purple leather gloves at an after-Christmas sale. They look great together. Now, if you see me on the street somewhere east of the river, you're gonna know who I am. Wave to me!

 

[YoursSINSerely]

Back in the 18th century the pilot of a sailing ship had to stand on deck, in all kinds of weather and steer the ship. During that time the 'pilot coat' was developed for the pilot. The pilot coat was typically a double breasted coat made of 30 oz virgin wool. (I don't care what the sheep did before they cut the wool off of it either, but that's NOT what virgin wool means.) The pilot coat was warm, durable, rain repellant and long lasting. Later the pilot coat came to be referred to as a p-coat. At least in the USA Navy, the coat later came to be called a pea coat. The official Navy coats were/are good. Some manufacturers make 'premium' versions with things like 32 oz wool and better lining and pocket material. You won't find a warmer winter coat than a pea coat, unless you get something from, say, Patagonia at several times the cost of a pea coat.

Raises hand! I had one in high school, navy blue. Me, and everybody else had one, too.

 

[glynndah]

Back in the 18th century the pilot of a sailing ship had to stand on deck, in all kinds of weather and steer the ship. During that time the 'pilot coat' was developed for the pilot. The pilot coat was typically a double breasted coat made of 30 oz virgin wool. (I don't care what the sheep did before they cut the wool off of it either, but that's NOT what virgin wool means.) The pilot coat was warm, durable, rain repellant and long lasting. Later the pilot coat came to be referred to as a p-coat. At least in the USA Navy, the coat later came to be called a pea coat. The official Navy coats were/are good. Some manufacturers make 'premium' versions with things like 32 oz wool and better lining and pocket material. You won't find a warmer winter coat than a pea coat, unless you get something from, say, Patagonia at several times the cost of a pea coat.

Raises hand! I had one in high school, navy blue. Me, and everybody else had one, too.

I have my little brother's Navy pea coat. I'd love to wear it, but it makes me itch.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

It never gets cold enough here to justify a peacoat. I do have a Woolrich heavy jack shirt that I wear to Reno in January. I really shudder to think what cold bad enough to justify one of their heavy cruisers must be like. Lord deliver us from Duluth, Minnesota!

 

[Katyusha]

Two: One's my wool trench coat. I pretty much wear that every day during the winter 'cause it's warm. The other is my uniform coat from the Salt Lake Olympics. It's warm and waterproof, and good to wear to work when I'm going to have brush snow off of cars.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I have no real coats this year-- but it's the year of the jacket, evidently! I've been collecting them like stamps.

The one I'm wearing in my av, is a secondhand Bill Blass tux that someone stitched short. Thank you, Salvation Army! I also got, the same day, a 1967-ish vintage Pierre Cardin, green tweed. It was absolutely new-- whoever owned it hadn't even taken out the basting that held the vents and pockets closed.

And a fringed seude jacket. Fun stuff!

 

[lance gt]

I have several faves.

I have a beautiful off-white Armani sport coat that makes me feel like a million bucks.

I have a 20+ yr old denim jacket that knows my body so well, I think it moves before I do. Getting pretty tattered, but I'll wear it till it falls off me.

I have a black leather biker jacket with a few studs and buckles I bought in the early 80's during my riding days. Goes well with the chrome chain belt (with illegal detachable buckle).

 

[Verdad]

A little leather jacket I've had ever since high school. Black, simple, straddling the line between elegant and casual. I've been wearing it for years because it goes with just about everything.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

My fave is a beige trench coat with dark buttons and a wide collar (bought it at Goodwill when I was in grad school to wear when I dressed up as Frances Farmer for Halloween. Wore nothing underneath it and a pair of black pumps, a pearl necklace, and a blonde wig. Let's just say it was a memorable Halloween. ) I still wear it periodically when I want to feel sexy.

 

[stephen55]

One Comes To Mind

Living in the Great White North (read:snow) where it occasionally gets cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (I know the true origin of that phrase), it helps to have a genuine parka. I bought one decades ago and I will never part with it. It is chock-a-block full off goose down, has a serious hood trimmed with wolverine, and goes down to my knees. One incredibly cold day, -45c with a vicious wind-chill, I had to go out. Damn near froze my feet which were in felt-pac boots, but the rest of me was reasonably toasty.

Thank you Simpson-Sears!!

 

[oggbashan]

Second favourite: I had a Blacks canvas cagoule that I used to wear when climbing. It stood up to some serious stress but eventually was ripped apart by too much abseiling.

In those days I used to abseil by wrapping a bare rope around my body. I had no technical aids, no safety rope, no harness - just a manila rope.

The friction on my cagoule eventually destroyed it.

Og

 

[Xelebes]

I only have two coats (springcoat and a parka) and they both serve their purposes exceptionally well.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I also have a corduroy sport coat that goes so well with Levi's. It may be reaching the end of its days, though, as the cuffs are slowly getting bald. I guess I'll just have to replace it but that can wait until fall comes again.

 

[lance gt]

Living in the Great White North (read:snow) where it occasionally gets cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (I know the true origin of that phrase), it helps to have a genuine parka. I bought one decades ago and I will never part with it. It is chock-a-block full off goose down, has a serious hood trimmed with wolverine, and goes down to my knees. One incredibly cold day, -45c with a vicious wind-chill, I had to go out. Damn near froze my feet which were in felt-pac boots, but the rest of me was reasonably toasty.

Thank you Simpson-Sears!!

Simpson-Sears, now there's some fond memories.