Size Guide
| Size |
|---|
Body Measurement: Women Outerwear
| SIZE | US | BUST (IN) |
|---|---|---|
| XS | 4 | 33 - 34 |
| S | 6 | 35 - 36 |
| M | 8 | 37 - 38 |
| L | 10 | 39 - 40 |
| XL | 12 | 41 - 43 |
| XXL | 14 | 44 - 46 |
| XXXL | 16 | 47 - 49 |
Compliments constantly
I have never owned a coat that gets spoken about this much. Three people in one week, and one of them followed me out of a shop to ask. It is entirely the colour, because the cut is a plain classic pea coat and nothing about the shape is unusual. I have started keeping the link on my phone for when people ask.
Weekend coat that dresses up
I bought it thinking it would be a Saturday coat and it has been to a wedding, two dinners and the shops. Camel is one of those shades that reads relaxed or smart entirely depending on what you put under it, which I had not appreciated before.
Structure holds through the day
There is proper construction in the shoulder and the chest rather than just cloth and lining, so it looks the same at six in the evening as it did at eight in the morning. My last coat went soft and started looking like a dressing gown by February. Structure is the thing you pay for and it is the thing that lasts.
Pockets are useful and warm
Both outer pockets are properly lined and deep enough for gloves and a phone, and the interior one takes a card holder without showing through the front. For a coat this shaped that is more storage than I expected to get.
Double breasted front is warm
Two layers of wool across the chest and nothing comes through it. I had assumed a lighter colour would somehow feel less warm, which makes no sense, and it is definately as warm as the black one it replaced.
Lining shadows through
Really lovely coat and beautifully cut. The lining is a good deal darker than the cloth, and in bright daylight you can just see the seam lines shadowing through at the shoulders. Indoors it is invisible. It only bothers me because I noticed it once and now cannot stop seeing it. Nobody else has ever mentioned it, for what that is worth.
Warmer shade than expected
It is a proper camel with some depth to it, not the flat oatmeal I was braced for from the photographs. In daylight it reads almost golden. Against a black jumper it looks properly rich rather than washed out, which was my worry.
Remembered a magazine picture
She had shown me a picture of one in a magazine months earlier and I remembered, which is rare enough to be worth mentioning. Ordered it off the measurements of a coat she already had. It fit first time and I have been living off the credit ever since. She has worn it most weekends since and to two evenings.
Photographs beautifully in daylight
There were a lot of pictures at a christening and camel comes out far better than a dark coat, which just becomes a block. You can see the shape of it and the two rows of buttons in the shots. Several of the photographs are now framed, which is not something I say about outerwear. That is not something I expected from a coat.
Daughter loves it
Bought it for her birthday as a bit of a gamble because she is particular. It has apparently been worn every day since she recieved it and she has told her mother it is the best thing anyone has bought her in years.
Fits without altering
Sleeves at the wrist, shoulders sitting where they should, hem exactly where the photographs suggested. Nothing has been near a tailor and nothing needs to be. For something bought without trying it on that is more luck than I usually manage.
Shade has not shifted
A full season, a lot of rain and one clean, and the shade has not shifted or gone patchy. That was my main worry with something pale, because the last light coat I owned went grey at the cuffs withuot a single winter of wear.
Second season already
Bought it last autumn, wore it hard, put it away in a cover and it has come back out looking much as it went in. No pilling on the sleeves where a bag sits and no thinning at the elbows.
Buttons disappear against it
Very good coat and the make is excellent. The buttons are the same tone as the cloth, so on a double breasted front the two rows do not read at all in photographs and the whole front goes flat. In person you can see them fine. A darker button would have given it more shape. In every other respect it is a very good coat.
Room for a knit
Regular through the body with enough room for a thick knit underneath, and the buttons still close comfortably with one on. If you want it close to the body take your usual size and expect to wear it over a shirt rather than a jumper.
Would order it again
If it wore out tomorrow I would buy the same one rather than looking at anything else, which is not a thing I have ever said about a coat. It has done everything I wanted and it has made me stop buying black ones, which is a saving in itself. Camel is now more or less the only colour I look at.
Cleaner said it was fine
Asked before I risked it and was told a pale wool blend cleans normally and to bring it in once a season. It came back looking new with no shrinkage and no change in the shade at all.
Arrived quickly and boxed
Five days from ordering. Tissue in the shoulders and a garment bag inside a proper box, so it came out ready rather than needing a steam. Two soft folds across the back that had dropped out by the following morning on a hanger.
Marks show instantly
Beautiful coat and I do not regret it. A pale shade shows everything, and I mean everything. A splash of coffee on the cuff was visible from across a room. It sponges off easily enough but you will be doing it more often than with a dark coat.
Length is right for me
Three quarter stops just above the knee on me, which covers a dress properly without swamping me. Short enough to sit in comfortably too. I am five foot four and coats usually swallow me, so getting the proportions right first time was a relief.
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