Duster Coat
The duster coat for men goes back many years and is most often seen in early westerns where both the good guys and the bad guys wore them. Character actors playing the part of a preacher wore them. If you remember the movie “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” you will recall that the Dalton brothers all wore them.
The duster coat was long, tight at the top with long sleeves and flared at the bottom. The wider flared bottom was for the ease of mounting a horse and for quick movements. Included in that flared skirt of the coat was a slit in the back so the wearer could move the coat to each side when riding a horse. The color was always black and no other colors were available at that time.
The original duster coat was really a cape made from a sail and soaked in linseed oil to make it water repellent. Sailors in the 1800’s wore water resistant capes while working on ships. Eventually, when they gave up sailing they began driving cattle and the coats became known as drove coats.
In the early days many people used an overcoat whilst working, and this especially applied to men. Trench coats were commonly worn and the Texas Rangers wore the duster as a uniform.
For a long time the garment lost its popularity and had its resurgence with the appearance of the automobile.
The first automobiles were open and the driver had to have a combination of clothing that was very much like a uniform. The driver needed to wear this type of clothing to keep him clean and for protection against flying debris and inclement weather.
A driver’s uniform consisted of the a long trench coat, a scarf, a flat cap, goggles, gloves and boots. If the driver had a passenger the uniform for that person was almost the same.
The updated version of that time had not changed much except some of them had three slits, one on each side of the garment and one in the center back. They had to be made convenient for sitting in the vehicle hence the slits to be able to move parts of the coat aside when entering or leaving and sitting in the automobile
Like the trench coats for men, the duster coat for men is still available and is now made of fabrics other than the sails and canvas they were made from originally. Not only are the fabrics modernized but there are now more colors available.
The style of the duster coat for men is one that can be worn in the casual world as well as the business world.
A man that considers himself a fashionable person usually has an overcoat in his wardrobe and wears it proudly to any occasion.
All styles of coat can easily be purchased online, and what may sometimes be described as a Gothic coat or full length leather trench coat is actually in fact a duster coat.
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