The modern overcoat takes its style cues primarily from the greatcoat's descendant: the officer's coat of WWII. Two other features of Napoleonic uniforms still in existence, albeit in different ...

Long describes Holmes’s wardrobe as that of “a modern English gentleman. The greatcoat and the deerstalker were key components of any gentleman’s wardrobe in England at that time period.” ...

Occasionally dubbed the ‘BOC’ (the ‘Big Ol’ Coat), the greatcoat is mighty. We’re talking full-length, heavyweight and military issue, made of dense wool plumes capable of repelling ...

I hate the fast fashion cycle and am craving something that I can stick with for years to come. ... It wasn’t a greatcoat per se, but it was unquestionably a great one.

Henrik Bering reviews “True Style: The History and Principles of Classic Menswear” by G. Bruce Boyer.

Dear Marylou: I bought this greatcoat at a vintage shop. It really is a "great coat," a black wool design that tents out from the shoulders to a hemline circumference of 102 inches. Can I wear it ...

Sherlock Holmes cape to get modern fashion revamp. By MARTYN MCLAUGHLIN. Published 2nd Nov ... “The greatcoat and the deerstalker were key components of any gentleman’s wardrobe in England at ...

Liz writes from the assault course that was London Fashion Week. And she does mean assault as the male bouncers at Vivienne Westwood shouted, pushed and grabbed.

Modern Russian Army uniform. ... from specific clothing items of officers to aquamarine-colored tunics, colored epaulettes and caps. ... the winter greatcoat, ...

Left, John Weston of Old Bond Street greatcoat, 1803. Right, modern day dandy Waris Ahluwalia, photographed by Norman Jean Roy. ... (Wolfe, no slouch in the clothing department, ...

In her Afterword, Dunmore says that her inspirations for this ghost story were The Turn of the Screw and Tom's Midnight Garden, stories which deal with the past's imprint upon the present.