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 |
Cuffs actually adjust
The strap and button on each cuff means you can tighten them against the wind or let them out over a jumper. It sounds like a small thing until you have spent a winter with cold air running up your sleeves eiher way.
Second winter running
Bought it last autumn and it has just come back out of the wardrobe looking exactly as it did going in. No pilling where the bag strap sits, no fading at the shoulders, and the buttons are all still tight. I brushed it down, hung it up and it was ready to go straight back into use. I expect a third winter out of it without any trouble.
Shows the rain marks
Lovely coat and I would buy it again. A bright shade does show water marks while it is drying, so after a heavy shower it looks patchy for an hour or two. It dries out evenly and there is nothing left behind, but I did panic slightly the first time.
Back vent helps
The vent at the back means it does not pull tight across the legs when you are walking quickly, which every straight coat I have owned before has done. You get a proper stride out of it rather than a shuffle.
Bright without being loud
It is a proper red rather than a pillar box shade, so it reads as confident instead of shouting. I was worried it would be too much and it is not.
Fits true to size
Measured across the chest, ordered my usual, and it was right. Room for a jumper and no more. Sleeves ended at the wrist with no shortening needed at all here.
Everyone notices it
Three separate people stopped me in one week to ask where it came from. I have never had that with a coat before and I have owned some expensive ones over the years. It is not a subtle thing to wear and I have stopped apologising for that.
Bought after a bad one
My last coat was a thin thing that looked good and did nothing, and I lasted one winter in it. This is the opposite. It has weight, it blocks wind, and the lining is properly stitched in rather than tacked at the hem. I should have spent this much the first time round. You do not realise a vent matters until you have had one.
Would order again tomorrow
It has done everything I asked of it and a few things I did not think to ask. If it wore out I would replace it with the same one rather than looking at anything else at all, and I have never once said that about a coat before now.
Warm on a long walk
Two hours out on a cold Sunday and I was comfortable the whole way round in just a jumper underneath. The wool has body to it and the lining is not that thin slippery stuff that lets the cold straight through. It has definately earned its place in the hall by the door. I have not needed a scarf with it once so far.
Present for my daughter
She had been wearing a padded thing that made her look about twelve and would not be told. Ordered this off her measurements as a birthday present. She rang me the day she recieved it and has apparently not taken it off since.
Vent lets cold in
Good coat and I wear it daily. The back vent is useful for walking but with a wind behind you it does open and you can feel it. Only on the worst days, and I would still take the vent over not having one.
Wife stopped looking
She had been searching for a red coat for about two years and rejecting everything. This one arrived and the searching stopped, which I am told is significant. It fit straight away with nothing needing altering, and I have been credited with unusual insight ever since.
Goes over everything
Jeans, work trousers, a dress, and a thick jumper underneath all of it. The regular fit has enough room for layers without looking like a sack, which is the balance most coats at this price get wrong in one direction or the other. It has become the only coat I wear from November onward. It has more or less retired the other two in the cupboard.
Wears over a work dress
Sits below the knee so it covers a dress properly instead of leaving three inches hanging out underneath, which always looks like an accident. It has quietly made half my wardrobe usable in winter again, which was not something I had thought about when I ordered it.
Hangs straight
No bunching at the hips and no flaring out at the hem, it just falls in a clean line from the shoulder. That is the difference between a coat that looks smart and one that looks like a dressing gown by lunchtime.
Red for the school run
I wanted something my children could spot from across a playground and this does that job perfectly. It is also warm enough to stand about in for twenty minutes twice a day, which is the actual test. The knee length means my legs are not freezing while my top half is fine, which was the problem with my last one. It has already earned its keep this term.
Bit of a gamble
Buying a coat in a strong colour without seeing it felt like a risk and I nearly talked myself out of it twice. Very glad I did not. It is better in person than in the photographs, which is not something I can usually say about buying clothes without trying them on. I would happily take the same gamble again tomorrow morning.
Cleaned with no trouble
Took it in at the end of the season and it came back with no shrinkage, no change in shade and the lining still sitting flat. I was suprised, because a bright colour is usually where dry cleaning goes wrong and I had braced myself for it.
Colour has not faded
This was my main worry with something this bright. A full season of daily wear, a lot of rain, and one clean, and it is the same shade it was in the box. Whatever the dye is, it is a good deal better than the cheap red coat I had before it, which went pink at the shoulders. That was the whole reason I hesitated before ordering it.
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