A long coat looks great on the catwalk – and Prince Harry’s fiancee shows how it can work in real life, too
So Meghan Markle is 5ft 6in, maybe 5ft 7in, says the internet. I Googled this because of a coat she wore, one day last month on a walkabout. It was oatmeal, single-breasted, by the Canadian tailoring label Smythe. It’s sold out now, naturally, but that’s not the point, because it wasn’t so much that particular coat I was taken with, nice though it is, so much as seeing a long-line coat trend work in a non-catwalk scenario.
Long coats invariably look incredible when you see them on the catwalk. A strong shoulder, a weighty fabric and a calf-length hem create a lean, dramatic line. Plus there is an air of romance and intrigue that you just don’t get with a padded jacket or a sensible three-quarter-length. This is the coat you’d wear, surely, for a long kiss goodbye on a station platform. It looks marvellous when it sweeps past you on a catwalk, on a model with bouncy, blow-dried hair nudging 6ft.
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