Trenchcoat

Trenchcoat

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“During the war I crashed in the Channel when wearing a Burberry trenchcoat and had to discard it””, one World War I fighter pilot wrote Burberry.[1]

The now unisex status-symbol trenchcoat design by Thomas Burberry during First world war for the British Royal Flying Corps and the British officers in the trenches. It became the trench coat of the war.[2]

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Already name "Trenchcoat" refers to war, soldiers lived in the trenches, (Finnish:juoksuhauta)at the front line, for long periods during the first world war.

First World War 1914-1918

Death toll 15 million [3]

Life in the trenches during First world war. {{#ev:youtube|J3QJRM7tCI0|240}}

External links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

1. The Fashion Encyclopedia. The Essential Guide You Need to Know about Clothes. Catherine Houck. 1982.p.30, 212

2. The Encyclopedia of Fashion. From 1840 to the 1980s. Georgina Ohara 1986. p.67

3. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wars19c.htm#FrPrW

Designs

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