Coat
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A coat is an outer garment for the upper body, worn by any gender for warmth or fashion. Coats typically have long sleeves and are open down the front, and closing by means of buttons, zippers, hook-a
Man wearing a coat, painting by Julian Fałat, 1900
Overcoat (left) and topcoat (right) from The Gazette of Fashion, 1872
Justacorps, a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century knee-length coat, fitted to the waist with flared skirts
Frock coat, a kneelength men's coat of the nineteenth century
Overcoat
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An overcoat is a type of long, thick coat intended to be worn as the outermost garment for warmth. It usually extends below the knee. Overcoats are most often used in winter when warmth is more import
Coat
…under-coats and overcoats. The term "under-coat" is now archaic but denoted the fact that the word coat could be both the outermost layer for outdoor wear (overcoat) or the coat that is worn under that (under-coat). However, the term coat has begun to denote just the overcoat rather than the under-coat. The older…
Frank Carr carrying a top coat c. 1965
Frockovercoat 1903
Ulsterovercoat jan 1903