Balmacaan Home — Shop — Coats — Balmacaan Prices exclude VAT, shipping is free, and orders leave the workshop within three working days. Size See what's available, right now, this very second, in XS, small, medium, large, or XL. Type Here be coats — the balmacaan, peacoat, Ulster, raincoat, British warm, duffle, Chesterfield, topcoat, trench, greatcoat, field coat, parka, duster, car coat, and tielocken — and jackets and shirts and knits and trousers and mid-layers and accessories. Balmacaan Hopsack tweed Bracken £710.00 — ex VAT Balmacaan Hopsack tweed Soot £710.00 — ex VAT Balmacaan Donegal tweed Grouse brown £620.00 — ex VAT Making of There's no space here to go into etymology, but the balmacaan is a walking coat. Despite that, there is little pedestrian about it. It is knee-length, with a Prussian collar, and a full raglan sleeve — i.e. one of those ones with a seam running perpendicular down upper sleeve: the traditional way, and, in this case, the best. It follows in a great lineage of walking coats, stretching back nearly a century of more. Few outerwear styles, indeed, are so quintessentially British. The balmacaan breaks with this tradition in many ways, however — most obviously in its three-panel body; but in less noticeable other aspects, too. Still, despite deviating from the norm here and there, what you have here is a walking coat that exemplifies best practice in the form. The collar construction, the pitch of the sleeve, the shape of the body — all of them build on many decades of knowledge, respecting them, treating them all with a light touch.
