Jacket
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A jacket is a garment for the upper body, usually extending below the hips. A jacket typically has long or short sleeves and fastens in the front or slightly on the side. Jackets without sleeves are v
A man wearing a sports jacket
British jacket, ca. 1600–1625, linen, silk, wool. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Nylon bomber jacket, also in leather
A mess jacket
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
Jacket
…in the front or slightly on the side. Jackets without sleeves are vests. A jacket is generally lighter, tighter-fitting, and less insulating than a coat, but both are outerwear. Some jackets are fashionable, while some others serve as protective clothing. The word jacket comes from the French word…
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