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I've heard that the Russian army (and maybe the Nazis, too) didn't issue their soldiers with sleeping bags because the coats were able to do double duty for that purpose. However, I have no citation, so I won't put it on the article.
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14:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Most of the greatcoats I've seen have been made of wool, not leather. Hairy Dude 22:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC),
My understanding is tht greatcoats are always made of wool\serge, i have always associated Leather with trench coats. Sheep21 15:01, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who wears one of these, in the series proper, and it's spin-off, Torchwood. - 72.141.197.83 ( talk) 15:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I think some clarification about having a cape is needed, since not everything called a "greatcoat" appears to have one. 70.20.135.211 ( talk) 22:37, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia lacks an article on Topcoats, the lightest coat, and one needs to be written. And then there is an article on Overcoats, an intermediate coat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcoat Then there is this article on the Greatcoat, which is the heaviest and warmest coat, which lacks a link to the article on the Overcoat. A man of fashion might own one of each, to be set for any sort of weather. Rumjal --rumjal 06:05, 16 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal ( talk • contribs)
Perhaps there is a good military history text which can explain this. AFAIK this is a Prussian thing from which it spread to Imperial Russia and the UK (the UK of course still using pre WWI Prussian style uniforms for bands and guards). 118.90.109.178 ( talk) 03:15, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
was added by me in diff 347707968. As explained in the edit summary, the link redirs to de:Mantel which has a subsection "Paletot". 118.90.14.223 ( talk) 14:19, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
I see a merge tag has been placed on the British Warm article, so I've added one here for completeness. My vote is:
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I've heard that the Russian army (and maybe the Nazis, too) didn't issue their soldiers with sleeping bags because the coats were able to do double duty for that purpose. However, I have no citation, so I won't put it on the article.
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14:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Most of the greatcoats I've seen have been made of wool, not leather. Hairy Dude 22:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC),
My understanding is tht greatcoats are always made of wool\serge, i have always associated Leather with trench coats. Sheep21 15:01, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who wears one of these, in the series proper, and it's spin-off, Torchwood. - 72.141.197.83 ( talk) 15:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
I think some clarification about having a cape is needed, since not everything called a "greatcoat" appears to have one. 70.20.135.211 ( talk) 22:37, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia lacks an article on Topcoats, the lightest coat, and one needs to be written. And then there is an article on Overcoats, an intermediate coat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcoat Then there is this article on the Greatcoat, which is the heaviest and warmest coat, which lacks a link to the article on the Overcoat. A man of fashion might own one of each, to be set for any sort of weather. Rumjal --rumjal 06:05, 16 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rumjal ( talk • contribs)
Perhaps there is a good military history text which can explain this. AFAIK this is a Prussian thing from which it spread to Imperial Russia and the UK (the UK of course still using pre WWI Prussian style uniforms for bands and guards). 118.90.109.178 ( talk) 03:15, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
was added by me in diff 347707968. As explained in the edit summary, the link redirs to de:Mantel which has a subsection "Paletot". 118.90.14.223 ( talk) 14:19, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
I see a merge tag has been placed on the British Warm article, so I've added one here for completeness. My vote is: