This is a coat cut like a dress. It has a fitted bodice with a proper waist seam, a separate skirt pleated from that seam, and shoulders gathered into a soft puff - none of which are things a coat usually has.
The tailoring is still all there underneath: a notched lapel, two rows of ornate silver-tone buttons closing double-breasted, and a tab across the waist that marks the seam. But the skirt is deeply pleated and flares well away from the body, and the whole thing stops above the knee, which puts it much closer to outerwear as a garment than as a layer.
It is a coat you can wear to something rather than to get to something, and that distinction is the point.
Details You'll Love
- Gathered puff shoulders - softly raised at the seam rather than cut square.
- Waist seam with tab - marks where the fitted bodice meets the pleated skirt.
- Deeply pleated flare skirt - releases from the waist and swings clear of the body.
- Double-breasted front - two rows of ornate silver-tone buttons under a notched lapel.
- Above-knee length - cut short so it reads as a garment rather than a layer.
