Car coat in stone Ventile cotton

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Garment

£345.00

Five-button coat, made in London, with weather-proof Ventile cotton from Lancashire, and horn buttons from the West Midlands.

Sizing

The coat fits true to size — but if you prefer things to fit more narrowly, best go down a size.

XS S M L XL
To fit chest 36 38 40 42 44
Pit-to-pit 20 21 22 23 24
Shoulder 17½ 18 18½ 19 19½
Sleeve length 25 25 25½ 26 26½
Back length 33½ 34 34½ 34½ 35
Image of the Car coat in stone Ventile cotton
The coat is made from Ventile cotton, which is wind-proof and rain-proof; on contact, water and other liquids just roll off. It was invented in 1930s Manchester and is 100% natural and 100% cotton. It works as it does because it is so tightly woven, and is made from the finest 2% of the world’s cotton crop.
The coat has a large collar with rounded points. It is shaped and structured to hold shape and hug the neck when up, and lie both slightly raised and satisfyingly convex when down.
The coat has a raglan-sleeve construction, which provides movement and comfort around neck and shoulders. It also has a fly-front placket, meaning that, when the coat is done up, only the top horn button is visible.
At the front of the coat are two A4-sized patch-pockets, accessed from the top, and which sit beneath the coat's deep and decidedly water-proof front seam. The coat also has twin side-seam pockets (shown right). At the cuff, meanwhile, is a cuff-strap and a choice of two buttons (below).

As worn

The gent here is 6'1" and is wearing a size S. His chest size is 38", and there are unconfirmed reports that he is 12 stone.

Makers of

The coat is made by an outerwear factory in London. They are safe hands indeed when it comes to Ventile. Core-spun threads, double-felled seams, fine-diameter needles, and every other Ventile nicety — they know it all, having made such garments for military and civilians alike since the late 1980s.
Ventile was invented in Manchester in the 1930s. It is a high-performance cloth — being put to use over the years for all manner of high-octane and outdoor pursuits — but is simply an intensely tight weave of natural cotton. Water hits the cotton, cotton swells up, water has nowhere to go: easy.
The horn buttons are cut, shaped, and polished by the last such factory in Britain. It continues a tradition in the Midlands, first linked to the area's meat markets, in the 18th century. "It is no easy task," said William Hutton in 1780, "to enumerate the infinite diversity of buttons here in Birmingham."