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#26 2022-06-09 10:46:48
- Tworussellstreet
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
Anytime between '50 and '70 probably. In fact - anytime.
#27 2022-06-09 11:26:57
- woofboxer
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
A quick check of the Blue Book reminds me of the great album cover for Six Pieces of Silver with Horace done up in his trenchcoat.
Can’t make out if its all cotton or not.
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#28 2022-06-09 11:36:47
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
I have spoken to Horace and he confirmed it was all cotton. This was before he died.
#29 2022-06-09 12:51:09
- woofboxer
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
A dying declaration, that’s good enough evidence for me.
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#31 2022-06-09 14:01:43
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
I sincerely hope the triviality of the question didn't hasten his demise.
some sort of banal legitimacy
#32 2022-06-11 01:20:40
- The_Shooman
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
Where on Earth does one find an all cotton raincoat. None of my Burberry coats are full cotton. Burberry trench are now $4,000 in Oz; probably worth it, but still a lot for a trench coat. I also have a London Fog rain hat l bought on ebay a few years ago, it is a rippa....does the job.
I read about the special Burberry finish coming off the gabardine trench coats with dry cleanings. Does this present a problem? Isn't gabardine supposed to keep the rain off for a decent number of hours?
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#33 2022-06-14 00:21:13
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
Chums. A topic after my own heart. I could’ve sworn my old single breast was all cotton but it’s 51/49
I haven’t followed the dating but there’s Burberry’s and Burberrys sans hyphen and whatnot.
I thought i was getting the Trench 21 when i went to Burberry shop in late 80’s for the double breasted number but even that is a mix.
I favor them though. All John Le Carré and what not.
Brooks had an English made model in the 70’s which I have somewhere. With their own (I presume) house check lining. Can’t recall what the ol’ composition of cloth is. But it’s a lot heavier than I like.
Reproofing a Burberry at a good cleaners can be a few hundred from what I’ve seen and I’ve never bothered.
I have had the Barbour reproofed and that was very reasonable. I’ve also done it myself with the tin of wax they’d sell. Diff material Obvs.
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#34 2022-06-14 02:54:04
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
‘Reproofing a Burberry at a good cleaners can be a few hundred ’
Really? How difficult can it be ?
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#35 2022-06-14 14:06:51
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
There is a claim by an Ebay seller that a Gant coat is cotton. Well, partly. Made in Singapore.
#36 2022-06-15 00:16:25
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
I'm abandoning the search, especially after Horace's comments about the '21'. I have four decent coats anyway. They are rotated.
If memory serves me well, 'Esquire' adverts often pushed the artificial nature of raincoats (etc.). I think the line was, a chap could spend time travelling between Long Island and Manhattan (say) and arrive looking as he'd started out: cool, calm and unwrinkled. The era of Wash N'Wear, Drip-Dry, I guess.
#38 2022-06-18 16:18:57
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
King: don't know difficulty. Just was told price. Who knows, my cleaner is expensive. Too expensive probably. But they do a great job cleaning and pressing shirts and other things.
AFS: agree on oyster color. don't let me Burberrys experience disincline you should you wish to pursue the 21. Like you thought, I've got enough and I'm finding I'm going back to one or two things and don't need rest of it.
checked and the Brooks English made coat is 100% cotton.
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#39 2022-06-19 00:18:00
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
My search now begins for the Brooks English made. I do think it's possible, however, if not entirely certain, that my old Brooks unlined fly-fronted is 100% cotton.
#40 2022-06-19 01:30:47
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Thought I'd spotted something of interest but (apparently) wool liner with polyester outer skin. Made In USA.
#41 2022-06-19 01:34:18
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
Another, apparently from the 70s, is poly/cotton but quite pleasing. I think the label helps date my fly-fronted coat. That yellowy gold lettering. It means, however, that my coat is more likely to be poly/cotton than cotton.
#42 2022-06-19 01:38:27
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
Yet another, union-made, has the same type of label. Almost certainly poly/cotton then.
#43 2022-06-19 01:55:25
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
Summing up, I'm forced to conclude that my Brooks fly-fronted coat (which took some finding, around a dozen or so years ago) is a poly/cotton example from the 1970s. But, on a particular type of day, whether spring or autumn, it's perfect for wearing or carrying folded across the arm.
#44 2022-06-19 02:15:42
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Re: All-Cotton Raincoats
Browsing old copies of 'Esquire' (a pastime I must reacquaint myself with one the roof on my mansion has undergone significant and costly repairs), I was struck my certain colours that would have been met with derision or bafflement in England circa 1960.
My father, although a good dresser, was certainly a conservative one on the whole. Yet I remember a certain tweed jacket/black polo neck combo with affection.
He once smoked a pipe whilst digging Lester Young or Diz.
Knowing England circa 1967, however, that black polo neck might well not have been pure wool.