The Trench Coats and You Look Taller Myth I Finally Looked Into Properly
I bought my first real trench coat in 2019, after a woman at the till in a Leeds shopping centre told me it would “elongate” me. I am five foot…
The Perfect Beige Coat For The Office
I bought a beige coat in 2019 that made me look like I was trying to audition for The Archers as an estate agent commissioned by a publisher to populate…
The Best Teal Coats
Teal lives in that liminal space between blue and green where coats go from practical to persuasive, which makes it work extra hard when thrown into a winter rotation full…
Shop the Trench Coats We’d Actually Wear
Proven by years of wear and re-wear, a quality trench knows how to earn its place in your wardrobe, it doesn’t simply hang there by virtue of its brand name.…
The Trench Coat Gets Reissued So Often I Wonder If It Ever Left
“A trench coat buys you a coat and a half” a shop assistant told me circa 2011 while I drunkenly stared at myself in a full-length mirror wearing a beige…
Should A Puffer Jacket Be Tight Or Loose? I Tested Both And Found Out
One dude in a menswear forum told me the ideal fit for a puffer is “basically vacuum sealed to the body, like a sausage casing.” Why? “You end up looking…
Does Puffer Jackets Actually Make You Look Bigger? I Went Looking For a Real Answer
I once got called a duvet with arms by my mum. No, let me back up. My mum told me I looked like a duvet with arms. We were outside…
Shop the Grey Coats We’d Actually Wear
Grey is the colour coats get right more often than black, mostly because it does the work without announcing itself. A good grey coat reads as considered rather than safe,…
The Brown Coats We Keep Coming Back To
Brown gets written off as the safe option, the coat you buy when you can’t be bothered to commit to camel or black, and that’s exactly why so many brown…
Claire’s Pick of the Best Black Coats
I spent about four years believing a black coat had to be a certain kind of serious to earn its keep. Structured, sombre, the sort of thing you’d wear to…