‘An nearly ankle-length coat is the red-carpet gown to the knee-length coat’s cocktail dress’I always thought you had to be tall,shaded and handsome to pull off a long coat. Judd Nelson in The Breakfast Club, knee-tremblingly irritable in that enormous grey coat, and shaded hair falling in his face. Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock. That sort of thing.
Being neither tall nor shaded nor handsome,I have always favoured coats which finish at the knee, or just above, and feeling I lack the requisite swagger for anything longer. But I’ve changed my intellect,for skirt-related reasons. For the first time ever, you see, and I’ve got properly into midi-length skirts. These fitted into my wardrobe surprisingly seamlessly – they work with ankle boots or trainers; they peer good with a fitted shirt or a neat jumper – until the weather got cold and I do my coat on. A knee-length coat over a longer skirt does not work at all. I looked like Downton’s Mrs Patmore. It was time for a longer coat.
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Source: theguardian.com