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Looks great! I think long raincoats keep you dry - imagine that.
I once asked my tailor about shortening a wool black topcoat from full length (below the knee) to 3/4 length. He responded, "Why, so you can be cold like everyone else?"
Your coat is both stylish and functional. You can wear it with suits, sport-coats, sweaters, wool slacks, cords, chinos, jeans. You name it. The trenchcoat is the most versatile for a an urban-suburban environment. You can wear it it work over a your best suit as you prepare to close the deal of the century. You can throw it on with Jeans and a sweater and drop your kids off at school.
You can also go less formal and get a Barbour waxed cotton jacket, which is both functional and trendy. Not as nice with suit, but fine with a sport coat. Great on blustery days where you can wear your oxford-cloth button downs, shetlands and LL Bean boots to work. They also work fine on cooler dry days. The waxed cotton jacket is the via-media with a town and country feel. You can go hunting or birdwatching in these or mill about bougie neighborhoods in the city or tony towns on the Connecticut coast looking posh.
Heck, you can get a gore-tex jacket with a hood and channel all the thru-hikers of days gone by. This wouldn't work with either a suit or sport-coat. Goes fine with sweaters and fleece. Mostly fleece. The gore-tex is the most suited for outdoor activites that require less bulky and lighter jackets that allow freedom of movement. Pack it in your day pack if you want to be prepared in case a rain storm hits on your hikes in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Get all three.
I once asked my tailor about shortening a wool black topcoat from full length (below the knee) to 3/4 length. He responded, "Why, so you can be cold like everyone else?"
Your coat is both stylish and functional. You can wear it with suits, sport-coats, sweaters, wool slacks, cords, chinos, jeans. You name it. The trenchcoat is the most versatile for a an urban-suburban environment. You can wear it it work over a your best suit as you prepare to close the deal of the century. You can throw it on with Jeans and a sweater and drop your kids off at school.
You can also go less formal and get a Barbour waxed cotton jacket, which is both functional and trendy. Not as nice with suit, but fine with a sport coat. Great on blustery days where you can wear your oxford-cloth button downs, shetlands and LL Bean boots to work. They also work fine on cooler dry days. The waxed cotton jacket is the via-media with a town and country feel. You can go hunting or birdwatching in these or mill about bougie neighborhoods in the city or tony towns on the Connecticut coast looking posh.
Heck, you can get a gore-tex jacket with a hood and channel all the thru-hikers of days gone by. This wouldn't work with either a suit or sport-coat. Goes fine with sweaters and fleece. Mostly fleece. The gore-tex is the most suited for outdoor activites that require less bulky and lighter jackets that allow freedom of movement. Pack it in your day pack if you want to be prepared in case a rain storm hits on your hikes in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Get all three.
