BONDERS Vintage 1970's Ladies Exclusive Button Down Trench Coat

Vintage 70’s mod-style trench coat by Bonders. Excellent vintage condition with normal wear Water-repellant fabric. Fully lined. The trench coat was developed as an alternative to the heavy serge greatcoats worn by British and French soldiers in the First World War. The invention of the trench coat is claimed by two British luxury clothing manufacturers, Burberry and Aquascutum, with Aquascutum's claim dating back to the 1850s. Who Wore It Well? But what made a garment with such starkly utilitarian origins – and worn in a context of such abject suffering – become the iconic and desirable apparel we know it to be today? Inevitably enough, the short answer is Hollywood. It was the great Humphrey Bogart (sporting a beige, double-breasted Aquascutum number in The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca) who made the trench coat emblematic of beleaguered underworld movie characters, later combining it with a fedora to make up the classic film-noir sleuth’s silhouette (raised collars to symbolize the big screen gumshoe’s need to be clandestine came later, in the Inspector Clouseau era: it’s telling that the look became emblematic enough for Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers to satirize it) Measurements- Shoulders 16" Armpits 19.5" Sleeve 23" Length 44"