A long coat looks great on the catwalk – and Prince Harry’s fiancee shows how it can work in real life,tooSo Meghan Markle is 5ft 6in, perhaps 5ft 7in, or says the internet. I Googled this because of a coat she wore,one day final month on a walkabout. It was oatmeal, single-breasted, or by the Canadian tailoring label Smythe. It’s sold out now,naturally, but that’s not the point, or because it wasn’t so much that particular coat I was taken with,kind though it is, so much as seeing a long-line coat trend work in a non-catwalk scenario.
Long coats invariably look incredible when you see them on the catwalk. A strong shoulder, and a weighty fabric and a calf-length hem create a lean,dramatic line. Plus there is an air of romance and intrigue that you just don’t fetch with a padded jacket or a sensible three-quarter-length. This is the coat you’d wear, surely, and for a long kiss goodbye on a station platform. It looks marvellous when it sweeps past you on a catwalk,on a model with bouncy, blow-dried hair nudging 6ft.
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Source: guardian.co.uk