Defnitely chetmiles. I bought a 1970s slightly olive green single breasted one in portobello in about 1989 and wore it for a long time. Of course back then wearing a Burberry if you were young was considered 'ironic' fashion similar to wearing gucci horse bit loafers. Both of those brands were so unhip back then.

Of course in the case of Burberry that has come full circle and is now super naff again. In my book that's always the time to subvert the obvious and dig them out again.

You've given me an idea  -I will look around for one in London.

I think the reason I am after a London Fog is that I was searching for one for many years, and I am a sucker for a zip out lining.

Definitely the throat latch and collar treatment that I like on London Fog. The other issue I had with my vintage burberry was that it was so well made that it never relaxed as a fabric at all. Sort of if you moved forward the whole A line of the coat would move as it were a cast iron bell! Always made me feel more dressed up than I wanted to be.

Of course if I still had it I would be digging it out...

Zip-outs are nice, I agree, because you then have the option.  I bought a stinky old Baracuta trenchcoat from some guy in the US (forget where - Ebay), which has one, and I wear it when the wind is really buffeting.  It's long, heavy and reminds me of Richard Widmark sticking an inhaler up his snout or Robert Mitchum menacing Jane Greer - you get the idea. 
The Burberrys' I have now is nicely crumpled, not at all stiff or solid.
Everyone where I live is in factory remainders or these stupid Tibetan woolly hats.  Strolled out this morning - only to buy antipasti and bagels - in a tan Press cord blazer, bottle green Paul Stuart crew neck, high waisted chinos (no pleats, natch), heavy cordovan wingtips.  Clean cut!

Collar down.  Miles wore his up (or so I've read) but Miles was hipper than fuck, and so...  (until he became a hippy and seemed to want to look more like some Stax soul brother post-Hendrix).  I go for the squarest look possible - severe even - ultra-conservative, including the repp tie - but then fuck it over by having a shirt with a crumpled collar.  Not sandpapered, you understand, just crumpled.  Paradoxically, though, I just love the Jimmy Guiffre/Bob Brookmeyer/Jim Hall look: everything squared away, cool, unruffled, knot tight to the windpipe.  It's just that I look naturally rumpled even when I'm trying to look my best!

I've got the original poster from the movie framed on my wall, Jim - just to the right of where I'm typing this.  McQueen has his collar down, chunky wristwatch, chukka boots; hugging Natalie Wood.  Better than the 'Bullitt' look, do you think?

Single-breasted, fly front, gabardine raincoat, with a 'Prussian' collar - always navy-  was THE coat before people started wearing Crombies. Great quality and in some ways more useful than a Crombie.

I am thinking generic. It would not mostly have been an expensive brand. A coat you could wear as school uniform but which would subsequently provide great service, particularly in navy, as a drinking coat.

60s stuff.

Last spring I got a late 50s Burberrys' from ebay.

Unworn iridescent olive to be sold through Doherty-Lee, Milwaukee. I will take some pictures and post them as it really is a thing of great beauty.

Ah yes, the nasty chav-check, wonder what the marketing people at Burberry's think of that. They are now the No.1 Chav-Brand.

Something went terribly wrong, the chav-check is now an icon.

This is beyond super naff, the brand will never recover from this association, its way too toxic.