[endag]

Hello,

What does this refer to?

 

[mrkleen]

It is shorter than a traditional full length overcoat, but longer than a car jacket.

It is roughly 3/4 of the way down your leg (usually just below the knee)

 

[Searching_Best_Fit]

This link actually leads to a long length suit (jacket and trousers), not an overcoat of 3/4 length.

It looks like a short car coat, but it is a suit. It is not a morning suit with cut-away quarters, but with similar length or shorter. Pretty strange.

 

[Adelstensfostre]

Don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it and if I never see another, then that'll be just fine. A 3/4 length coat it most assuredly ain't.

 

[derum]

It's style is similar to a "Teddy boy" drape jacket. Basically just a frock coat.
(Also called an American Gambler coat, synonymous with the riverboats of the 1800's.)
I have one and it is stunning.

 

[JBierly]

It's style is similar to a "Teddy boy" drape jacket. Basically just a frock coat.
(Also called an American Gambler coat, synonymous with the riverboats of the 1800's.)
I have one and it is stunning.

Covers the revolver on the hip well?

 

[FLMike]

Pure costume

 

[127.72 MHz]

This link actually leads to a long length suit (jacket and trousers), not an overcoat of 3/4 length.

It looks like a short car coat, but it is a suit. It is not a morning suit with cut-away quarters, but with similar length or shorter. Pretty strange.

I'm with you on the "Strange" comment.

 

[Searching_Best_Fit]

I'm with you on the "Strange" comment.

If this was offered only as a jacket and fit loosely, I think I can make it work as a short car coat over an existing suit. However, since it has accompanied trousers, that, to me, is a bridge too far.

Having said that, it could work as a statement piece at certain venue.

 

[derum]

Covers the revolver on the hip well?

No, mine is too tailored for that, but I could probably get a switchblade in there somewhere.
Not pure costume, as one poster suggests, they were based on Edwardian coats/suits, so were the precursor to the lounge suit.

First picture is of a clothing museum exhibit, second ageing "teddy boys" dressed in their own style.

 

[FLMike]

Sorry, I consider dressing in a vintage style of a bygone area (period dressing) to be the same as wearing a costume. Not knocking it....if that happens to be your thing, go for it.

 

[SG_67]

A very odd garment indeed.

 

[derum]

Sorry, I consider dressing in a vintage style of a bygone area (period dressing) to be the same as wearing a costume. Not knocking it....if that happens to be your thing, go for it.

What a strange thing to say, especially on this forum, where clothes styles that became popular over a hundred years ago are worn and discussed regularly, where members pine over the clothing of long gone icons like Cary Grant, Edward VII, where the clothing in the TV series Madmen is held in high esteem, all from a bygone era, all copied today by many on this forum. Top hat and tails is not exactly a recent thing, but is worn in many weddings. cosplay?

 

[eagle2250]

No, mine is too tailored for that, but I could probably get a switchblade in there somewhere.
Not pure costume, as one poster suggests, they were based on Edwardian coats/suits, so were the precursor to the lounge suit.
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First picture is of a clothing museum exhibit, second ageing "teddy boys" dressed in their own style.

Certainly not a design a 'stature challenged' gentleman should opt to wear...that coat rather eats up the little bit of leg they have to claim.

 

[Mr. B. Scott Robinson]

I have actually longed for a return to the longer coat popular in the Victorian and Edwardian period. Mr. Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes has long been one of my style icons.

You see my dear Watson, but you don't observe!

Cheers,

BSR

 

[smmrfld]

Sorry, I consider dressing in a vintage style of a bygone area (period dressing) to be the same as wearing a costume. Not knocking it....if that happens to be your thing, go for it.

Agree completely...typically a "look at me" thing.