Steal Your Face

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281033527632

This vintage coat has a green cotton shell and an alpaca pile liner.  It has slash handwarmer pocket and flapped cargo pockets, a zip front with a buttoned flap, button cuff straps and knit storm cuffs.  At some point, a “steal your face” Grateful Dead patch was added.
Chest: 24″
Shoulder to Shoulder: 17″
Sleeve: 25″
Length: 40″

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French Despatch Rider Coat

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281033518130

This vintage coat was made in 1948.  It is french army issue, either for a motorcycle despatch rider, or for the cavalry.  It has leg straps to keep it from flapping in the wind, and pass through slits instead of pockets.  It has a small collar, raglan sleeves, an attached belt and metal buttons. There are buttons inside which look like they could attach to a liner.
Chest: 30″ (doubled = 60″ = size 56)
Sleeve (center to cuff): 33-1/2″
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Foster Sportswear long halfbelt

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281030603575

This vintage leather jacket was made in the 1950s by Foster Sportswear.  It has a yoked back and front, a pleated and belted back and saddlebag pockets. It has pinked details throughout, giving it a casual western vibe. It has a Scovill / Conmatic zipper, which still works well.  The leather has damage and repairs- there is a tear under one of the pockets, an old repaired tear on the side/back panel, and scuffing to the shoulder.  The jacket is lined in Alpaca pile by “Inca Paca” / “Timme Tuft”.
Chest: 22″
Shoulder to Shoulder: 18″
Sleeve: 25″
Length: 33″
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Fit Reform Overcoat

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271111740248

This vintage coat was made by Fit reform from “Elysian” British wool fabric in the 1930s.  The fabric has the most incredible pattern and texture.  The buttons need to be re-stitched, the middle one is loose, the top and bottom buttons are not shanked and are too tight against the fabric to button easily.  It is single breasted, with handwarmer pockets and raglan shoulders.
Chest: 22″ (doubled =44″)
Center to cuff: 35″
Length: 46″
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Curlee Clothes overcoat

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271105917184

This vintage overcoat was made by Curlee Clothes.  It is single breasted and  has a three button fly front.  It has handwarmer pockets and a fantastic blue fabric with a lighter blue overcheck.
Chest: 23″
Shoulder to Shoulder: 18″
Sleeve: 25″
Length: 45″
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Olive Drab overcoat

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281022706925

This vintage overcoat was made in the 1940s by Jess Butz, on the U of P Campus, 3403 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA.  It appears to have been an army private purchase piece, made of relatively lightweight wool in an olive drab shade.  It is a fly front single breasted overcoat.  The lining is pretty shredded and the coat is badly wrinkled. There is mothing throughout.
Chest: 21″ (doubled = 42″)
Shoulder to Shoulder: 17″
Sleeve (shoulder to Cuff): 25″
Length: 45″

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Gorsart Chesterfield Overcoat

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271103105066

This vintage single breasted chesterfield overcoat was made by Gorsart of New York.  It is black wool with flapped pockets, a breast pocket and a velvet collar. It has a fly front.  There are period repairs to the buttonholes, wear to the edges of the velvet, wear to the bottom of the lining, and some dropped stitches under the collar.
Chest: 21″ (doubled = 42″)
Shoulders: 18″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 25″
Length: 52″
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1930s “Guardsman” Overcoat

This vintage overcoat was made in the late 1930s and was sold by Colwell Brothers in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  Colwell Brothers was (and still is) Halifax’s premier men’s store.  They were extremely high end, and I have handled a lot of merchandise that they sold over the years.  It is all absolutely the best of the best, and they favored more traditional, English styles.  This overcoat has a 1936 union tag, which places its date of manufacture between 1936 and 1939.  It has a six button front.  All buttonholes are functional, but the lapels are rolled to the second button, something which was a style of the time.  As this is a more conservative style, it has a plain back instead of the fancy belted backs you would see on younger mens styles.  It is fully satin lined. The coat is in excellent condition.
Chest (pit to pit): 23″ (doubled = 46″)
Shoulder to cuff: 26″
Shoulder to Shoulder: 18-1/2
Length: 44″
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The McDorsey Yukon trench coat

This vintage coat was made just post WWII.  It is a double breasted trench coat style, with a mouton sheepskin collar, and a combination alpaca pile and quilted satin lining.  The gabardine shell of the coat is a medium blue color.  There is a detachable belt.  The coat was made by McDorsey Sportswear and is their “Yukon” model. One of the buttons does not match and there is wear to the bottom edge of the quilted liner.
Chest (pit to pit): 22-1/2″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 25″
Shoulder to Shoulder: 18″
Length (collar to hem): 39″
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