Time for coats

[Levin]

Please, fashionable people of OTF, help me make a decision.

I have to wear a suit for work. I own a warm enough overcoat for cold days but it is singularly bad when it's wet out.

I can't spend too much but I've been looking at this coat as it's not to warm but is waterproof. It isn't very exciting though is it? I'd go so far as to say it's a bit dull.

Are there any options for good looking raincoats that work with a suit but I could also wear with some degree of confidence at the weekend?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Please, fashionable people of OTF, help me make a decision.

I have to wear a suit for work.

Change jobs.

[ad hoc]

fashionable people of OTF

Intrigued to find out who is meant here

[Stumpy Pepys]

I think this look is due for a comeback.

[WOM]

Intrigued to find out who is meant here

I got this, bro...

[Kevin S]

I think Craghoppers should look pretty decent over a suit. I think some of them come up quite long, and Cotswold Outdoor should have them in.

https://www.craghoppers.com/men/jack...proof_jackets/

[WOM]

First down the runway is Toby. Toby wears this dandy red slicker, matching any fall-weight suit and contrasting deck shoes. Conveniently folds into its own pouch for wearing around the waist. Says "I'm on my way...and going nowhere fast."

[EIM]

Intrigued to find out who is meant here

Me.

Tell you what, Lev. I'll do you a quick scan and search and post some later. But my tip is to head to TK Maxx. They've got amazing stuff in at the minute. Norse Projects, Folk, Rains, Barbour...

Uniqlo is sound though. Go with Uniqlo and you won't go far wrong.

[EIM]

Also Benjm. Benjm is good at fashion.

[Giggler]

The Community Clothing navy raincoat is nice:

https://communityclothing.co.uk/coll...=6978726002742

[Benjm]

Stutterheim do some nice looking rainwear. They are pricier than the Uniqlo but it looks like there are quite a few options in the sale section, called 'Memories' for some reason.

EIM is the OTF coat king but he may not be a steadying influence if you're trying to stick to a budget. (Edit: the boy done got in first and I was entirely misrepresenting him as a profligate End Clothing regular.)

[Tubby Isaacs]

First down the runway is Toby. Toby wears this dandy red slicker, matching any fall-weight suit and contrasting deck shoes. Conveniently folds into its own pouch for wearing around the waist. Says "I'm on my way...and going nowhere fast."

Toby Gymshorts?

Actually, that might be the bloke in Stumpy's picture.

[Nefertiti2]

The Uuuu range in uniqlo is good. There are a couple of coats you can click through to from your first link

[EIM]

Can't wait for autumn to kick in fully. Fjallraven had a waxing event at their store yembo. I didn't go because as an outdoorsman I am more than able to wax a coat myself, however it did signal a start to coat season.

It was 6 degrees this morning when I popped up to Piccadilly. I was able to get the chunky Barbour jumper out. Having declared soup season open a few weeks ago with a bowl of French Onion from Soup Kitchen, I'm looking forward to the soup/jumper combo in a few weeks time.

[Benjm]

Fjallraven had a waxing event at their store yembo.

That is ridiculous. Some tasks can be accomplished without the support of a group of like minded peers.

[Anorak Smith]

Please, fashionable people of OTF, help me make a decision.

I have to wear a suit for work. I own a warm enough overcoat for cold days but it is singularly bad when it's wet out.

I can't spend too much but I've been looking at this coat as it's not to warm but is waterproof. It isn't very exciting though is it? I'd go so far as to say it's a bit dull.

Are there any options for good looking raincoats that work with a suit but I could also wear with some degree of confidence at the weekend?

My missus is always trying to do this, buying something in an attempt to suit multiple scenarios and consequently ending up not quite hitting any of them. The answer probably depends on what you're going to be doing or wearing at the weekend. If you wear roll neck/polo neck jumpers or shirt and jacket wandering about town, that Uniqlo coat would cover both bases.

Why not go for a non-Grey (not a dandy red) overcoat option or is an umbrella not an option with what you already have?

[EIM]

It's important we tamers of nature build a sense of rugged community.

[Giggler]

Stutterheim do some nice looking rainwear. They are pricier than the Uniqlo but it looks like there are quite a few options in the sale section, called 'Memories' for some reason.

EIM is the OTF coat king but he may not be a steadying influence if you're trying to stick to a budget. (Edit: the boy done got in first and I was entirely misrepresenting him as a profligate End Clothing regular.)

All the cool outdoor kids go to Kafka now.

[Moonlight Shadow]

Sadly the Uniqlo rain mac i got did not fit me, i was surprised...but it looked a decent buy, choose the basic version at 90 quid rather that the U one.

[EIM]

All the cool outdoor kids go to Kafka now.

The branding for End is gorgeous though. Those boxes.

[Benjm]

I haven't bought from End in quite a while but their site is still a reliable destination if you want to see something that only the massively wealthy and/or totally insane would consider purchasing. £250 Thom Browne socks, that kind of thing.

[caja-dglh]

Coats designed to go over a suit look uniformly awful. It is the nature of the beast - they require a boxy shape, try and protect the legs so are altogether too long. They are altogether a coat that you would not choose to buy if it were not for its purpose of wearing over a suit.

[Giggler]

The branding for End is gorgeous though. Those boxes.

True. I quite like a Peggs & Son box too though.

End have an Armor Lux jumper that'll definitely be coming my way if I've still got the cash at the end of the month.

[Felicity, I guess so]

Coats designed to go over a suit look uniformly awful. It is the nature of the beast - they require a boxy shape, try and protect the legs so are altogether too long. They are altogether a coat that you would not choose to buy if it were not for its purpose of wearing over a suit.

I used to have a vintage London Fog mid-length mac that fitted over a jacket. It wasn't awful at all.

[WOM]

The branding for End is gorgeous though. Those boxes.

What....the plain brown box with END written on?