Coat facts for kids

Man's two-piece lounge suit 1875-1880, has a coat and matching trousers

A coat is a piece of clothing that is worn over a person's upper body. It can be used to keep warm or dry (a raincoat). It also may be worn to make a person look good. A coat usually has long sleeves, and is fastened at the front. Sometimes it includes collars, shoulder straps and hoods. One type of coat is a jacket.

Images for kids

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  Man wearing a coat, painting by Julian Fałat, 1900

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  Overcoat (left) and topcoat (right) from The Gazette of Fashion, 1872

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  An evening coat from the 50s by designer Sybil Connolly

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  Justacorps, a seventeenth and eighteenth century knee-length coat, fitted to the waist with flared skirts

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  Frock coat, a kneelength men's coat of the nineteenth century

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  Morning coat or cutaway, a dress coat still worn as formal wear

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  Tailcoat (dress coat in tailor's parlance), a late eighteenth century men's coat preserved in today's white tie and tails

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  Coatee, an early 19th-century military coat, still worn with Highland dress.

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  Dinner jacket, a men's semi-formal evening lounge coat.

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  Smoking jacket, a men's jacket worn informally with black tie

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  Lounge coat or sack coat, a coat which is also a jacket

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  Duster coat or simply "duster" worn when riding horseback

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