Vintage 70s Sears The Men’s Store Navy Blue Trench Coat W/Removable Liner Sz 42R

SEARS THE MEN'S STORE VINTAGE MEN'S CLASSIC (HEAVY LINING) BLUE TRENCH/OVERCOAT ULTRA HIGH QUALITY (4) BUTTON CLOSURE HIDDEN PLACKETT HEAVY REMOVABLE LINING NOTHING CLOSE TODAY UNDER $600 IMMACULATE! NO FLAWS! In 1886 Richard W. Sears founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to sell watches by mail order. He relocated his business to Chicago in 1887, hired Alvah C. Roebuck to repair watches, and established a mail-order business for watches and jewelry. The company’s first catalog was offered the same year. In 1889 Sears sold his business but a few years later founded, Roebuck, another mail-order operation, which in 1893 came to be known as Sears, Roebuck, and Company. In 1895 Julius Rosenwald, a wealthy clothing manufacturer, bought out Roebuck’s interest, and he reorganized the mail-order business. Sears meanwhile wrote the company’s soon-to-be-famous catalogs. The company grew phenomenally by selling a range of merchandise at low prices to farms and villages that had no other convenient access to retail outlets. The company flourished in the economic boom after World War II and was not seriously challenged as America’s largest retailer until the 1980s when Kmart, then Wal-Mart eventually surpassed both and became, before the end of the 20th century, the largest retailer in the world. This vintage coat comes from another time & place when people made clothing to last your lifetime Almost 50 Year Old Coat