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#1 2011-10-21 03:56:20
- Andy_B
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The Baracuta Trenchcoat
Admittedly, not as easy to find as London Fog - yet anyone considering buying modern Burberry might try tracking one of these down. They have a nice zip-in liner for those raw, blustery days and keep most of the body warm. The all cotton '21' seems almost unobtainable - doesn't it? Anyway, I couldn't afford one. This is still Ivy on a budget.
#2 2011-10-21 09:11:25
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
Brooks own staff back in the Boom Years mistook Ian Strachan's Baracuta Trench for one of their own at the 346...
#3 2011-12-26 14:06:42
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
So these are vintage only? No longer available?
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#4 2011-12-27 04:51:04
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
Just vintage now, I think. They really ought to bring them back.
A question for anybody who might know - Baracuta are extending their range all the time and updating their classics in the process, but do they still have the original specs for their old products? The current G9 is not the original G9, but a revision of the old design. A Baracuta Originals (that really were) range could be quite a thing.
#5 2011-12-27 04:51:54
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
Bringing back the metal zip might make a nice start...
#6 2011-12-27 05:43:43
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
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#7 2011-12-27 07:33:33
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
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#8 2011-12-27 09:00:37
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
More than 30 years, I suppose.
I'm not sure who it was (The Weejun?), but I think I've read that they changed from metal to plastic in the 60s or early 70s already...
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#9 2011-12-27 09:23:35
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
Hence me talking about the original.
Leaving Baracuta to one side, I'm increasingly drawn to 1930's Ivy this afternoon. Everything more substantial, but not in a pastiche way like those newbie Bills Khakis...
Boom Years Ivy feels too stylised for me in this weather. I want deerskin gloves and three layers of Tweed.
#10 2021-12-28 02:49:07
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
I parted with the trenchcoat some years ago; not sure why. But I've just bought, for £25 including postage, an old, fleece-lined, navy, double-breasted Baracuta - I'd hesitate to call it a trenchcoat - but, at any rate, a substantial raincoat. Old Baracuta is still rather acceptable.
#11 2021-12-28 03:37:49
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
I've just bought another of the trenchcoats. That old one, I'm fairly sure, came from the USA, from when Baracuta were presumably exporting plenty of their offerings. It whiffed hugely of Lucky Strike or Chesterfields or whatever, but, regardless, I wore it out when I had a long way to walk and really and truly wanted to keep warm. I do love that old 'grubby olive' Burberrys' of mine but the chances of getting another, even at double or treble the money, is probably remote.
#12 2021-12-28 03:55:51
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
Ah, the metal/plastic zipper problem needs Staceyboy to comment: very much his subject.
I turned down an old Burberrys' raincoat (not belted) at £60 in October - nice, didn't have that horrible chav check - but was pleased to find the Baracuta (belt and all) at £45. Why can't a decent cotton raincoat/mac/trenchcoat be manufactured, preferably Made In England? The chances are -? Oh, overlooking Grenfell of course... They do find favour.
#13 2022-01-03 03:59:08
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Re: The Baracuta Trenchcoat
Also not to be sneezed at: a navy, double-breasted, fleece-lined Baracuta For Willerby Of Oxford Street raincoat: with neat little throat-latch. Worn it out three times already.
'Under the radar' so cost next to nothing.