A warm coat made from thick wool. The coat usually has a hood and is fastened at the front by toggles and loops.
The coat is usually full length or three quarter length.
A famous duffle coat wearer was Paddington Bear, a children's story and television character. Paddington Bear is a fictional character in childrens literature. ...
The term Duffle Bag originates from its use as a bag for dufflecoats.
Dufflecoats are a traditional British garment, dating from 1890 when John Partridge, a manufacturer of outdoor clothing, started to market coats made from duffle fabric.
The dufflecoat owes its popularity to the British Royal Navy, who issued a camel-coloured variant of it widely as an item of warm clothing during World War II.
A knee-length wool coat with a hood, square shoulder yoke, large patch pockets, rope frogging and wooden toggle closures.
Originally worn by Belgian fishermen, the dufflecoat was adopted by the Royal Navy in WWI and WWII, and then in the 1940s French students snapped up this item and many other military styles inexpensively at surplus sales.
Eventually the dufflecoat became a classic overcoat, adopted for rainwear and cold-weather dressing where its utilitarian nature comes in handy.
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