The trench coat is one of the classic pieces of wardrobe, both feminine and masculine, perfect for the “middle” seasons, or, as they say in fashion parlance, it is a perfect transitional garment. And if you think that the mid-seasons no longer exist, well, it’s still true that September and October are the perfect months to buy (or show off) big and tall trench coats. 

Accomplices the temperatures that are lowered especially in the morning and in the evening, the air that gets cooler but warms up during the day, the trench is really suitable to repair from the air without heating too much during the day: repairs but not heats. As Wikipedia tells us, its origin is quite far from the fashion world:

The trench coat is a type of raincoat with a belt in imitation of that of the British army. His name comes from the English trench coat or trench coat.

In short, as well as for blue jeans, the trench coat was born as a “work” suit rather than as a fashionable garment.

The Trench, A Story Longer Than A Century

The trench was born in 1901 and the first model was created by Burberry, a brand that has become almost synonymous with a trench; if we think of the classic beige trench coat we immediately think of Burberry, from which then almost all the brands took inspiration.

Burberry trench in a recent advertising campaign

As I said, the trench coat was born in 1901 when the English War Ministry ordered a jacket model, halfway between the orderly raincoat and the military coat, by Burberry, who had been producing the first gabardine raincoat since 1856. The rest is history.

Celebrities Love Trench

The celebrities are certainly not exempt from showing off the original Burberry trench coat which, for many of us, has decidedly prohibitive costs. However, to the advantage of the original, as you will have understood from history, there is to say that the real trench coat really overcomes the fashions and the time for which buying one equals to make it an investment destined to last .

Trench coat: how to wear it

From Audrey Hepburn to Alexa Chung, Olivia Palermo and Poppy Delevigne, from Victoria Beckham to Kim Kardashian to Kate Moss, the trench is one of the garments that all have (and wear) and all love. This is an icon of the British style that finds its perfect “testimonial” no less than in Kate Middleton.

The Characteristics Of The Trench

Certainly over the years, and in conjunction with the change in common taste, the trench coat brings some variations in wearability, fitting, lengths to the original model, although it must be borne in mind that the real trench coat has very specific characteristics that make it such, the shoulder straps, double-breasted lacing, the chin strap, the belt, the triangular flap superimposed on the lacing for a better closure. The trench coat is made of usually khaki-colored gabardine, although today the color variations range from all the shades of the rainbow.